We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Mankind first took flight in 1903 when the Wright brothers took off over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Since then, all manner of aircraft have ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

It's been a long time coming, but finally actual build work has begun on a new kind of airplane engine, one that might revolutionize the industry. NASA calls it the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core ...

Which model airplane kit is best? Model airplane kits come in a vast variety of styles and detailed constructions. They aren’t just a few wooden planks that click together and barely float anymore.

Launching things with electromagnetism is pretty fun, with linear induction motors being a popular design that finds use from everywhere in hobby designs like [Tom Stanton]’s to the electromagnetic ...

Flite Test, the festival’s sponsor, offers kits to build anything from simple trainer aircraft to multi-engine warbird replicas from inexpensive foam-backed posterboard. Simple materials and ...