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ICON A5 Amphibious Sport Aircraft
Monday, October 26th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
The Sport Flying revolution has just begun. In 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), working closely with the...

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Flying Car Takes Off

Friday, March 20th, 2009 - 14:22:32 - Anuradha Menon

A prototype of what is being touted as the world's first practical flying car took to the air for the first time this month, a milestone in a project...

Micro-Flying Robot
Monday, January 5th, 2009 - Ehud Rattner
Seiko Epson Corporation has developed a “microrobot” named FR-II. The robot is the successor to the original FR, which used...

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Flying Weather Robots

Saturday, December 13th, 2008 - 10:38:39 - Anuradha Menon

At MIT, planning for bad weather involves far more than remembering an umbrella. Researchers in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics are...

Largest Toothless Pterosaur Fossil Found

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 - 14:03:12 - Anuradha Menon

A researcher at the University of Portsmouth has identified a new species of pterosaur, the largest of its kind to ever be found. It represents an...

New Pterodactyl Inspired Robot

Sunday, October 5th, 2008 - 16:18:36 - Anuradha Menon

Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students, Andy...

Air-Ray Ballonet
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Inspired by the Manta ray, the largest known specimen of the ray family, the German firm “Festo” created the “Air ray” – a...