Launching things with electromagnetism is pretty fun, with linear induction motors being a popular design that finds use from everywhere in hobby designs like [Tom Stanton]’s to the electromagnetic ...

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 ...

Following NASA’s recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight] figured that if it helps with those airplanes, perhaps it may ...

Twenty-six minutes and 38 seconds might not seem like an especially long time, but those stressful 26 minutes and 38 seconds made all the difference for La Jolla student Daniel Guo in winning a world ...

At some point in everyone’s life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a certain degree of aerial imagination. Transforming this thin white ...

We just landed Our plane crashed. *** packed Delta Airplane crash landed at Toronto's Pearson Airport Monday afternoon, ending without wings, *** tail upside down and on fire. It is extraordinary that ...

The design of an aircraft likely saved many lives when it crashed on an icy runway in Toronto last week, according to one aviation expert. On Monday, a Bombardier CRJ-900 plane flipped and crashed on ...