Most of today’s personal flying vehicles fall under the category of EVTOLs (Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft).
The Wright brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an editorial speculating it could take 1 to 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine. The ...
A player managed to kidnap Purah in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom by using an elaborate flying machine. In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, players may use flying machines and ...
Jetson’s futuristic eVTOLs took to the skies in Arkansas for the world’s first personal aerial vehicle race, proving sci-fi ...
A lot of personal flying machines are in the works right now, but this one from Washington-based startup Zeva Aero surely features one of the most extraordinary designs yet. The Zeva Zero aircraft ...
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These Personal Flying Machines Are Coming

Have you ever wanted to own your own flying car, hoverboard, or Jetpack? Well now you can! That statement may sound like an ...
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! (No.) It's a plane! (Ehhh.) It's a flying car! (No, definitely not). So what is it? According to its manufacturer, Opener, this is a new ultralight all-electric fixed ...
The $2 million GoFly competition encourages mad scientists and daredevils to come as close as possible to Star Wars’s light cycles, James Bond’s jetpack, Marty McFly’s hoverboard, or any other flying ...
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Today, commuting to work in a personal helicopter or private jet is something that’s only really available to billionaire CEOs, hedge fund managers, and “one hit wonder” rappers who are six months ...
The Flying Machine, directed by Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey and Marek Skrobecki is an ambitious combination of 3D and live-action, while having the longest stop-motion take in history. It is produced ...
Tiny floating robots could be useful in all kinds of ways, for example, to probe the human gut for disease or to search the environment for pollutants. In a step toward such devices, researchers ...