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 ...

CLEAR LAKE — When they learned Clear Lake High School students were building an airplane, some folks figured it was a radio-controlled job. Not hardly. It’s an honest-to-gosh ultralight aircraft — a ...

Ultralight aviation provides an excellent pathway for those who want to fly, but don’t want to get licensed. These quite often cheap and cheerful DIY aircraft often hide some excellent engineering ...

Five students worked over the course of an academic year to design the plane before they built it and sent it on its first flight Marcus Herold grew up with airplanes overhead, living near the flight ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on FAA certification of light sport and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The first can be found here. The FAA is proposing a rule ...