In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough.

China has just flown a massive new drone “mothership” that looks like something lifted from concept art, yet it is very real ...

Soldiers suspended in the air in moon boots and sniping unsuspecting targets on the ground might sound like a battle tactic from a future war, but such a concept for an Army hovercraft actually traces ...

On Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron shared an unusual video showing a man on a flying platform — widely characterized as a "hoverboard" — maneuvering through the skies above the Bastille Day ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the mid-1950s, Hiller constructed a series of innovative Flying Platforms for an Army-Navy program as a one-man ...

What do the classic tale "The Arabian Knights," "Marvel's Silver Surfer," and the movie "Back to the Future II" all have in common? They each have someone who is flying around on some kind of platform ...

March 19, 2009 We've written before about the nifty flying carpet-style PAM Individual Lifting Vehicle - now it seems there's another self-stabilizing coaxial dual-rotor flying platform on the way.

Drone photography just took a step forward with ProDrone's Ultimate Flying Platform line of mounts, which are reportedly the first ones capable of carrying a DSLR on a consumer drone. They're designed ...

Part flying saucer, part Segway-of-the-skies, and all dangerous, the Hiller Flying Platform was one of the Cold War's wackier one-man flying machines. "In horizontal flight, the vehicle exhibited an ...