Air travel is the safest, speediest way to get from one place to another, but you know what would make it even better? If planes didn’t have to worry about pesky engines and messy fuel. I mean, if a ...

The successful test flight of a radically new airplane design has given aeronautical engineers a "Wright brothers" moment. Their small aircraft had its first successful flight powered by ...

An experimental electric plane with no moving parts has been successfully designed and flown by scientists in the US. Instead of propellers or turbines, the five-metre wide craft used electricity to ...

A plane without propellers or turbines is more Star Trek than Heathrow Airport. But maybe not for much longer... What weighs 439,985kg and can fly? A Boeing 747, apparently. Today boarding a plane has ...

It might sound something straight out of science fiction that a plane without any moving parts is able to stay in flight. However, researchers at MIT have achieved this feat with a 2.45 kg plane that ...

What weighs 439,985kg and can fly? A Boeing 747, apparently. Today boarding a plane has become as normal as riding a taxi or catching the bus for many of us. But when you stop and think, it remains ...