Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to the jet pack. For a long while now, when someone mentioned “personal flying machines,” the image that came to mind was of people wearing devices powered by small, but ...

A giant egg equipped with rotors and "Transformers"-style robots are among some of the creative designs submitted in a $2 million dollar contest to dream up new ways of flying. A giant egg equipped ...

Next year, visitors to the entertainment capital of the world will be able to take to the skies without a pilot's certificate. Zapata, the French company behind a jetpack and hoverboard system that ...

The setup would let you charge your own vertical take-off and landing vehicle in the trunk while you drive -- though it would all cost you almost $300,000. If you've been wrestling with how to bring ...

Tacoma-based Zeva aims to build a one-person air transport vehicle to zip users above congested roads and airports. Zeva Courtesy A group of Tacoma-based engineers, designers and experts is working on ...

From beginning to end the GoFly competition was about 2-1/2 years. Patterned after the original DARPA Challenge for autonomous vehicles, the timeline was split into phases, with increasingly difficult ...

For decades, the dream of personal flight, as envisioned by jetpacks, hoverboards, and flying cars, has captured our imagination. The idea is simple yet profound. The freedom to lift off and travel ...

It’s been a long time coming, but the electric aerial revolution is here. This new, plug-in, flying economy is about to ...