The vehicle involved in Sunday's deadly crash is a powered parachute, and it fits into the ultralight vehicle category with ...

He recently flew the fourth ultralight, which he designed and built himself. For a taste of what’s going on here, the wings have aluminum tube spars and are made of hot-wire-cut styrofoam sections.

The Zhuhai air show has yet to start, but it is already offering some insights into Chinese airpower developments.

The ribs run perpendicular to the spar and provide support for the wing covering, whether it’s aluminum, foam board, or monokote. For this build, [Tom] is relying on the old standby, a square ...

The Shark Vertex Ultralight HZ2002 is part of the Vacuum Cleaners test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, Stick Vacuums (Corded) models like the Vertex Ultralight HZ2002 are rated on ...

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space ... Utilizing eight small rotors spread across two parallel wings, it takes off by sort of rolling on and off the ground via ...

But it also included pterosaurs the size of sparrows that flitted through primeval forests and may have fed on insects, large pterosaurs that stayed on the wing across oceans for days at a time ...

The obsession with flying cars dates to at least 1917. That year, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, a bicycle racer turned motorc ...

SAN ANTONIO – A pilot was hospitalized after an ultralight aircraft crash at the Kitty Hawk Ultralight Field in Schertz, according to police. The crash was reported around 10 a.m. Tuesday in the ...

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The best car insurance will include enough liability insurance to cover what you could lose in a lawsuit. If a driver without insurance crashes into you, uninsured motorist coverage (UM ...