A Johnny-come-lately was among the five winners in Phase II of the GoFly Prize competition, a three-part, $2 million contest sponsored by Boeing that is challenging designers, engineers, inventors and ...

In 2004, Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites claimed the $10 million Ansari XPrize for designing, building, and successfully launching SpaceShipOne, a reusable manned spacecraft. Now, Richard Branson’s ...

From beginning to end the GoFly competition was about 2-1/2 years. Patterned after the original DARPA Challenge for autonomous vehicles, the timeline was split into phases, with increasingly difficult ...

The GoFly team is considering its next step after high winds on Feb. 27-29 prevented the final fly-off between personal flying devices competing for a $1 million grand prize. Offering a total of $2 ...

Has the convergence of technologies that switched on the electric aircraft market also made it possible to build a compact, safe and quiet personal flying device that anyone can use, anywhere? The ...

Japan's Tetra Aviation won a hundred-grand "disruptor award" at the GoFly personal flight contest last year, and has now presented its first commercial product at OshKosh: a 33-rotor Mk5 personal ...