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The "flying car" era starts as production finally kicks off

The long promised age of flying cars has quietly crossed a threshold, shifting from concept videos and airshow prototypes ...
Electrek

Personal electric flying machines are becoming dangerously affordable

There was a time when having your own plane was a pretty clear indicator that you were part of that upper crust of society. If it was a pricey and rare electric plane, then all the more. But those ...
Hyperallergic

Wright Brothers' 1903 Flying Machine Patent, Lost for Decades, Will Go on Display

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...
IFLScience

The New York Times Said Machines Wouldn’t Fly For A Million Years (69 Days Before The First Flight)

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
Flying

Miracle on the Potomac: Samuel Langley Never Received Enough Credit as Aviation Pioneer

Samuel Pierpont Langley, a physicist and astronomer, successfully demonstrated stable, engine-propelled flight in May 1896 with an unmanned aerodrome model, flying for over a minute and covering more ...
insider.si.edu

Progress in flying machines, by O. Chanute, C.E

"A series of [27] articles on 'Progress in flying machines', as distinguished from balloons, whichhave been published in the Railroad and Engineering Journal (now redesignated as the American engin ...