Many drivers out there have probably wished they could let their car fly over others to avoid traffic. This seems like it can be a reality as Alef Aeronautics has recently demonstrated in its latest ...

Humans have been dreaming of personal flight for as long as we’ve watched birds soar overhead. In 1917 — just 31 years after the invention of the automobile — American journalist C.H. Claudy imagined ...

Dan Neil takes a test flight of the Pivotal BlackFly, a series-produced electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle made ...

You may soon drive to an airport, then fly home. Alef Aeronautics announced formal agreements with Half Moon Bay and Hollister airports to begin test operations of a road-legal, vertical-takeoff ...

Two decades after electric vehicles began reshaping ground transportation, a new category of electric aircraft is beginning ...

Read Davin Coburn's flying blog and listen to him discuss his adventure. Listen to Davin Coburn adventure as he describes it on the Popular Mechanics Show (podcast). We're off the ground early, seven ...

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Driving drunk is bad enough, but “flying drunk is just insane.” That is how some of residents are reacting online after 61-year-old Joseph Krol crashed an ultralight, a ...