Small US aerospace project Helios Horizon claims to have recently broken the record for the highest-flying multi-seat electric aircraft, which it considers a step on its journey into the stratosphere.

The unmanned, solar-powered Helios aircraft yesterday was slated for a check flight July 13 in preparation for an attempt to reach 100,000 feet in mid-August. However, a NASA spokesman said, jet ...

On the surface, Helios Airways flight 522 seems ominous, as if it had been done on purpose. Why else would oxygen masks have ...

The Helios aircraft reached 76,271 ft. on its first solar-powered flight this month, its trial run coming close to breaking the 80,201-ft. record set by its smaller Pathfinder-Plus predecessor in 1998 ...

The world's first unmanned plane intended as a telecom tower in the sky is attracting interest as a new way to get broadband Internet connections to businesses. Helios, an aircraft resembling a giant ...

A 247-foot experimental flying wing developed by Monrovia-based AeroVironment Inc. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is scheduled to make the first of several flights this week in ...

NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corporation, Warminster, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a nearly $74 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research project for the ...

The final report on the August 2005 crash of a Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 near Athens, Greece – due for release this week – details four “active” and four “latent” failures that caused the accident ...

MacCentral ran a story about how Helios, the world’s first unmanned plane intended as a telecom tower in the sky, has a Mac for its “brain.” After seeing some of the related discussions, Graham Gyatt, ...

RED OAK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qarbon Aerospace, Inc. (Qarbon Aerospace) announced today the launch of the Helios Ice Protection™ System. This exciting new system advances aircraft icing protection ...