The CEO of Magical Adventures Balloon Rides tells WIRED how the pilot made a safe landing after they got stranded over a neighborhood. The FCC banned the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers and ...

The Nord 500 was a French ducted fan VTOL project that aimed to offer something helicopters could not: far higher speed with ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The F-89J became the Air Defense Command’s first fighter-interceptor to carry nuclear armament. The all-weather, twin-engine Northrop F-89 Scorpion was the first ...

When we think about the Golden Age of Flying–the glory years of Pan Am and the Concorde in the 1950s and 1960s, before flight became cheap with the rise of the jumbo jet–we imagine a colorful, lavish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 0 intro gettyimages 1091369928 t2 The age of piston-engine air travel still exists today, but its golden era was the 1920s to ...

Here’s What You Need To Know: In the 1950s, the United States was already hard at work experimenting with the idea of launching large missiles from submarines, in the early stages of what would become ...

While a lot of attention deservedly goes to the pilots who first developed Alaska's aviation industry, less is known about those who thrived in the post-war era. In the 1950s and 1960s the fledgling ...

(The Center Square) – Moving passengers and cargo through the air is heavily regulated and significantly ties efficiency to expense. “As currently postured,” says U.S. Rep. Brad Knott (R-NC), “the FAA ...