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 ...

Federal officials have released images showing a helicopter as it broke apart midair and crashed in New York last month, ...

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 ...

Rescue boats circled the submerged aircraft within minutes of impact, and recovery crews hoisted the mangled helicopter out of the water just after 8 p.m. using a floating crane. The bodies were ...

A family from Spain was about to celebrate the ninth birthday of one of their children when their sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair.