Air travel’s worst case scenario has arrived in a form few passengers ever imagined: not terrorism or mechanical failure, but a blast of extreme solar radiation that has corrupted digital flight ...

Airlines around the world reported short-term disruptions heading into the weekend as they fixed software on a widely used commercial aircraft, after an analysis found the computer code may have ...

A solar-powered plane on an around-the-world journey was about a third of the way to California early Friday after taking off from Hawaii, the project's mission control said. Solar Impulse 2 pilot ...

On a summer afternoon high above the Swiss Alps, Raphaël Domjan stared out at a commercial airliner flying below him. At 9,500 meters (31,000 feet), Domjan was alone in a featherlight aircraft powered ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Bertrand Piccard was flying from Morocco to Spain last year - finishing up another highly successful test of Solar Impulse, the revolutionary airplane he helped design that ...

A solar-powered airplane has landed in Pennsylvania, about 17 hours after it took off from the Ohio hometown of America aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 ...

NEW YORK -- The solar-powered airplane on a globe-circling voyage that began more than a year ago in the United Arab Emirates reached a milestone Saturday, completing a trip across the United States ...

The Solar Impulse, an airplane traveling across the United States using only solar power, is in Phoenix today, after reaching Arizona from California Saturday. It took the plane about 20 hours to ...

The world's first solar powered aircraft completed a major milestone today when it completed an overnight flight for the first time. The Solar Impulse HB-SIA, with André Borschberg at its controls, ...