Tim Wright

Writer and photographer Tim Wright is a regular Air & Space contributor whose assignments have ranged from Africa and Asia to the Arctic.

DJI Phantom drones weigh close to three pounds—not something you want falling onto a crowd.

If You Crash a Drone, You Might Land Yourself in Jail

The story behind a recent landmark conviction.

Saddle up, DragonflEye.

These Dragonflies Are Steerable, Thanks to Bio-Engineering

Cyborg insects wearing saddles. Sure, why not?

If only artificial dragonflies had the staying power of real ones.

Flap Like a Dragonfly

Bio-mimicry makes drones better.

One of the Missile Defense Agency's modified MQ-9 Reapers

Could Drones Shoot Down ICBMs?

The Missile Defense Agency meets Reapers, and likes what it sees.

Human captain, non-sentient copilot

“Siri, Land the Plane”

This robot controls airplanes the same way people do, so it can fly almost anything people can.

Will this help or hurt? We'll find out...

Court Strikes Down Drone Registration Requirement

The government won't track your toys after all.

At the airshow, re-enactors help create the illusion of wartime Europe. Near a Junkers Ju 52, some pose as German paratroopers practicing aircraft exit techniques.

Jerry Yagen and the Fighter Factory

At the annual Warbirds Over the Beach airshow, a wealthy collector remakes the world as it was in 1944.

HASS doesn't fly so much as fall with style, just like the spacecraft it emulates

The Drone That Mimics Spaceships

Want to test communications during atmospheric reentry without risking your spaceplane? There's a drone for that.

Air traffic controllers will soon have to worry about the little guys, too.

Tiny Tech Will Help Drones Stay Safe in the National Airspace

ADS-B equipment is the future of air traffic control. Until now, most drones couldn’t carry it.

This prototype is built of cardboard, but production models will be cardboard-like mycelium.

These Mushroom-Based Drones Eat Themselves at Mission’s End

Once the job is done, the tiny gliders are designed to disappear.

Iomax’s Archangel is derived from the Ayers Thrush, a cropduster.

Return of the Light Brigade

To meet the demands of 21st century warfare, militaries are reaching for a Vietnam-era weapon.

MIT graduate students load a micro-drone into its deployment canister.

Drones Swarm Like Gnats in Navy Video

In tests conducted last October, three F/A-18s bring 103 friends to the party.

Experiments with surgical containment measures on aircraft showed an OR in micro-G to be a poor option.

Space Station ER

What happens if an astronaut in space needs surgery?

Google’s drone delivery service is still in the testing stage.

Google’s Future Air Force

Before the Internet giant starts flying delivery drones, it has to solve another problem: cheap position tracking.

Flirtey's UAV, en route to a delivery in Wise, Virginia last week.

In Rural Virginia, a Drone Makes the First Legal U.S. Package Delivery

Advocates call it a “Kitty Hawk moment” for the flying package business.

The Flying Pancake (at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, in the early 1940s).

Why There Will Never Be Another Flying Pancake

The end of the Vought V-173.

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