It is testament to the great esteem with which Jacob Bernoulli and his kin were held in 18th century Europe, that every science book or lecture that touches in the least way upon aerodynamics today, ...

Visions of human flight could soon soar beyond Leonardo da Vinci's sketches into reality. A crowd-funded project looks to make the first human-powered helicopter capable of winning a $250,000 prize ...

Paul MacCready Jr., known as the "father of human-powered flight," for designing the first aircraft to make a sustained, controlled flight powered solely by a human, has died. He was 81. Bryan Allen, ...

P.T. Barnum is famously credited with saying, "There is a sucker born every minute." This week's viral videos of a Dutch man taking flight powered only by a set of flapping wings certainly ...

Baltimore?s Inner Harbor becomes the landing strip for human-powered flight contraptions in a contest Saturday sponsored by Red Bull. “We try to spread the love throughout the U.S. and the world,” ...

In what may well be one of the last aviation firsts, a University of Toronto graduate student has fulfilled an ancient dream that dates back at least to the Greek legend of Daedalus and Icarus — human ...

"Penguins don't fly!" Altitude Films has revealed the official trailer for The Flight of Bryan, telling the true story of the people who invented a human-powered flying machine. This hybrid doc ...

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor tells the inspiring true story of history's first successful human-powered flight. Renowned inventor Dr. Paul MacCready and his team were filmed creating the ...

Students in Japan introduced a bicycle that lifts off the ground using nothing but the force of pedalling. This device, built without engines or batteries, signals that human physical energy alone can ...

The Minter Field Air Museum in Shafter is known for shining a spotlight on the airport’s history as a training center for thousands of pilots during World War II. But decades after the war's end, ...