Japan for Hawaii Solar Impulse 2, the Swiss solar-powered plane trapped in Japan for three weeks by the rainy season, is set to take off for Hawaii earl ...

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. DARPA (Defense ...

RABAT, Morocco - An experimental solar-powered plane landed in Morocco's capital late Tuesday after a 20-hour trip from Madrid in the first transcontinental flight by a craft of its type. With the ...

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan recently beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him ...

On a summer afternoon high above the Swiss Alps, Raphaël Domjan stared out at a commercial airliner flying below him. At 9,500 meters (31,000 feet), Domjan was alone in a featherlight aircraft powered ...

It is clear for all to see that we have entered a new era in global geopolitics, a new emphasis on security and a post-aid era. The paradigms that have persisted since 1945 are shifting fast. The ...

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 meters, or 31,237 feet, his team announced Wednesday. The SolarStratos ...