The AltoVolo Sigma hybrid-electric aircraft flies 500 miles at 220 mph while operating 80% quieter than helicopters, featuring safety systems and compact design.

“If you take a regular piece of paper and try to make it fly, it will flutter, tumble, flip around in the air and do all sorts of crazy motions,” said Leif Ristroph, an associate professor of ...

Long before engineers spun 3D models of airplanes on screens, they designed them with pencils, rulers, and plenty of patience.

We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds. But what if you wanted to make a paper airplane that looks like an armadillo? Could you get that to fly ...

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 ...

Making pontoons is not that complicated when following simple rules for the design. We are using the same airplane made in a ...

ARLINGTON — Eviation Aircraft, an electric airplane builder with engineering facilities in Arlington, expects to test fly its first all-electric airplane later this year. Last week the company ...