China unveils the world’s largest flying car

Matrix flying car becomes world's largest at 11,000 pounds after successful flight tests near Shanghai by AutoFlight. The ...
Task & Purpose

When the military tried to give soldiers personal flying platforms

In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough. By Nicholas Slayton Updated Jan 1, 2026 12:53 PM EST For decades the United ...
Electrek

The ‘world’s first flying car’ is now being hand-made in California

Flying cars are no longer just for the movies. Alef Aeronautics has begun building the first electric flying cars for customers, which are being hand-made in California. Electric flying cars are real ...
Futurism

Chinese Man Unleashes Swarm of Flying Swords

When it comes to swords, Fan Shisan’s no slouch. An influencer from China’s Sichuan Province, his short-form video content is swarming with handcrafted blades — sometimes literally. Case in point, Fan ...
IGN

How Much Will The Steam Machine Cost?

Valve announced a new Steam Machine this week, and while I think it’s going to have a major impact on the next generation of gaming hardware – however PC-like that looks – there’s still one big ...
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

Zapata’s AirScooter—a Personal Flying Machine—Heads to Las Vegas

Zapata, the French company known for its jetpack, will debut its AirScooter, a personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, for public recreational flights in Las Vegas starting in early ...
MLive

Michigan getting Da Vinci inventions exhibition with 40 full-scale working machines

DETR0IT - You can immerse yourself in the mind of Leonardo da Vinci at a new exhibition coming to Michigan featuring his inventions. “Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion” is coming to the Michigan ...
WFAA8

Unlikely engineers put their flying machines to the test this weekend in Irving

IRVING, Texas — Like many crazy ideas, it all started with a drink. “Margaritas are definitely what inspired us on this one,” said David May. Earlier this year, May and his friends were out to dinner ...
Inc

Yes, Elon Musk Really Is Tweeting About Flying Cybertrucks

Elon Musk took to social media platform X to tease flying Cybertrucks on Tuesday. Musk retweeted an AI video, made by Grok for X user Unkonfined, that showed a Tesla Cybertruck, outfitted with wings ...
Artnet

Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine Recreated From 500-Year-Old Drawing

Nature can be an instructive guide for overcoming technological barriers. In 1969, the American engineer Otto Schmitt coined a term to describe the practice of science pulling from nature’s source ...