The Better Half VW conversion produces approximately 30 horsepower at 3400 rpm with standard 92mm cylinders, though builders can increase power to 37 horsepower or more by using larger bore cylinders.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild aircraft are the hallmark of AirVenture, the world’s largest get-together for pilots, which starts today in Oshkosh, ...

The $190,000 personal eVTOL aircraft has garnered attention from the U.S. Air Force's Afwerx innovation unit. Designed for recreational flying, Pivotal's Helix personal eVTOL aircraft—formerly known ...