A father and son designed the world’s fastest quadcopter drone
A father-and-son team recently set a new Guinness World Record for the fastest quadcopter drone, speeding past the previous title...
Aviation
The Air Force’s big new electric taxi flies at 200 mph
Today, members of the military and an executive from Joby Aviation used a giant pair of scissors to cut a...
In photos: Airbus Helicopters’ fancy flying machine, the H160
A regular helicopter has two pretty visible main components: the top rotor, for giving the flying machine lift, and the...
What’s in the US military’s historic lost and found: nukes, jets, and drones
For roughly 24 hours, between the afternoon of September 17 and the evening of September 18, the United States Marine...
The US military could use your help finding a missing F-35 stealth jet
UPDATE: Sept. 18, 2023, 6:50 p.m. ET: On Monday night, the Joint Base Charleston released a statement on X, formerly...
Boom Supersonic’s prototype jet sets off on first flight
The race to reboot commercial supersonic travel is well underway, and one company just took a major step forward. On...
Drones offer a glimpse inside Fukushima nuclear reactor 13 years after disaster
A team of miniature drones recently entered the radioactive ruins of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors in an attempt to...
‘Alien’ signal was likely a very big truck
There’s no doubt an extremely bright fireball careened through the atmosphere north of Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014....
Joby’s latest electric air taxi will head to an Air Force base for tests in 2024
Small planes have one propeller, bigger ones have two, and helicopters have a giant rotor on top and a smaller...
The Air Force used microwave energy to take down a drone swarm
In the desert plain south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and just north of the Isleta Pueblo reservation, the Air Force...
The Air Force used microwave energy to take down a drone swarm
In the desert plain south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and just north of the Isleta Pueblo reservation, the Air Force...
Watch a Google drone deliver beer and snacks to Denver’s Coors Field
Wing, Google parent company Alphabet’s drone-delivery subsidiary, pulled off a fun demonstration delivery earlier this month: one of its drones...
