While film classics like "Blade Runner" and "Back to the Future" gave audiences a glimpse into a fictional reality where flying cars exist, the idea didn't come from Hollywood. In fact, the first ...

Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to the jet pack. For a long while now, when someone mentioned “personal flying machines,” the image that came to mind was of people wearing devices powered by small, but ...

The promise of personal flying machines has been around for decades. From flying cars to jetpacks, the future always seemed to promise a traffic-jam-free ride to work that left the roads far below.

A future with flying cars no longer lives just in concept videos. It now lives in Palo Alto, and if you have about $200,000 plus patience, you can reserve one today. The company behind that future ...

In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough. By Nicholas Slayton Updated Jan 1, 2026 12:53 PM EST For decades the United ...

Seeing how the world of air mobility has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, the dream of getting to work in your personal flying car no longer seems to be outside the bounds of reality.

Have you ever imagined what personal flying could look like in the near future? China's Zhiyuan Research Institute, based in Hangzhou, is bringing that vision closer to reality. They just unveiled ...

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 ...

One of the most common tropes of science fiction is the flying car, and yet so far, it's remained exactly that — fiction. Despite the predictions of many authors, we aren't all whizzing around the ...