A group of students in Pisa, Italy, recently set a new Guinness World Record for the “largest paper aircraft.” The previous record stood for over a decade. Icarus is made from glue and paper but was d ...

Stratolaunch is a unit of Allen’s privately held investment vehicle Vulcan Inc. The company has been developing a portfolio of launch vehicles that includes the world’s largest airplane by wingspan, ...

When, or if, the weird-looking Scaled Composites Stratolaunch takes off from Mojave, California, as expected in 2019, it will have smashed a record that's remained unbroken for 71 years. No flying ...

Sometimes size really does matter. When it comes to long distance flights, cruising in a bigger plane is usually more enjoyable than a smaller one. The extra elbow space alone in many large aircraft ...

After years of development in the desert north of Los Angeles, a gigantic, six-engined megajet with the wingspan of an American football field flew Saturday morning for the first time. Stratolaunch ...