Courtesy of San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives Some of the names the media bestowed on the XH-17 Flying Crane, one of the largest helicopters ever flown: massive four-legged insect, gigantic ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash landing.

They chose the crane fly, the relatively slow-moving, harmless insect that emerges from spring to fall and is often mistaken for a giant mosquito. "The size and scale of our platform's wingspan ...

A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart and crashed into the Hudson River near the New Jersey shoreline, killing the pilot and a Spanish family of five who were on board.