This story was first published Oct. 11, 2009. It was updated Dec. 16, 2009. For hundreds of years, fully grown adults and very young children have dreamed about flying. People have made wings out of ...

A 2008 New York Times article on a new study about crow behavior begins: “Crows and their relatives — among them ravens, magpies and jays — are renowned for their intelligence and for their ability to ...

We take it for granted that Wilbur and Orville Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, flew the first airplane and pioneered the development of aviation. Their names adorn an Air Force ...

Theirs is the world's first and still most dangerous extreme sport, and its full history has never been told. Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers is a thrilling, hilarious, and often touching chronicle of ...

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When Abrams talks about humans flying, he is referring more to Icarus than to airplanes. From ancient myths through China "sometime in the sixth century A.D." to present-day skydivers, Abrams ...