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Editor’s note: This story has been updated with details of Ingenuity’s second and third flight. A helicopter just flew on Mars. NASA’s Ingenuity hovered for about 40 seconds above the Red Planet’s ...

The milestone was achieved on Dec.16 at Wisk’s test facility in Hollister, Calif. During the flight, which was captured on video and lasted about one minute, the yellow eVTOL took off, hovered, and ...

Earlier this month, a demonstrator aircraft for what could be the first new civil supersonic plane to be launched since the 1960s took to the skies. It’s a milestone moment in the highly anticipated ...

This first USAF flight, which validated key aspects of the next-generation trainer, marks the start of the engineering and manufacturing development phase. A U.S. Air Force test pilot finally flew at ...