With so many examples to look at, building a solar-powered RC airplane in 2024 should be a snap, surely? The first handicap was that [ProjectAir] is based in the UK, which means dealing with the ...

[Matthew Heiskell] blew these numbers out of the water with a 10 hour 45 minute flight with an RC plane on battery power. Condensed video after the break. Flight stats right before touchdown.

Remember that cool RC plane you got for your 13th birthday? The same one that went nose-first into your neighbor's wall on ...

Perhaps nothing can take us back to the early thrill of flight like classic planes. Fortunately, there are many places that actually let you ride in them, and not just stare at them from the ...

For years, you've been able to watch cool-looking electric-plane videos on YouTube, created by some of the 300 companies who are working on them. Today, Beta Technologies, in Burlington ...

Corporate history is full of great products that flopped—Betamax, Commodore’s Amiga computer and Aston Martin’s 1974 Lagonda car. For the Airbus AIR-0.57%decrease; red down pointing triangle ...

Airplane tires may typically be smaller than truck tires, but despite bearing far more weight at much higher speeds (for comparably shorter amounts of time) they're typically quite durable.

WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is ...

(Bloomberg) -- After the world posted its worst year for wildfires, with an area roughly the size of Nicaragua scorched in 2023, one plane model has become the most important aircraft on Earth.

It could also be that components such as electronics in cars or planes are powered by structural batteries. “It will require large investments to meet the transport industry’s challenging ...

Is there Wi-Fi on the plane? If so, will the airplane Wi-Fi work or be super slow? Also, is it safe to tell colleagues that you're "online and available" for work during a flight? Even though most ...

For millions of Americans, camping is a way to flee the rat race and embrace the fresh air. But then there is that special breed who want to awake to the smell of airplane fuel.