(Video Link) This video from 2009 shows an emergency landing of a single-engine plane on a street in Winter Haven, Florida. Kyle Davis, the pilot, and Joe Surowiec, his passenger, were recorded on camera during this...

(Video Link) Gabriel Nderitu, an IT professional in Kenya, is almost finished making his homemade airplane. He researched the design online and built it out of spare parts: In the end, Nderitu mounted a Toyota eng...

Boeing's new Phantom Eye UAV is powered by hydrogen, making it a very fuel efficient vehicle capable of flying at more than 12 miles of altitude for 4 days at a time. From the company's press release: "The program is...

If a bank needs to repossess a car, a repo agent w...  ...English, since that’s the official language of aviation .” The next day he was escorted, in handcuffs, t...

The Soviet-designed An-225 -- the world's largest operational aircraft -- was originally designed to transport the USSR's space shuttle. That program is long gone, but one An-225 just broke the world record for the heav...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fTYzoSDAS...  ...of the downtown skyscrapers in Pittsburgh has an aviation beacon that instead of flashing at regular interv...

X Planes is a photoblog of experimental, hypothe...  ...and outright imaginary aircraft throughout modern aviation history. The picture above is of a particular F-...