A plane with no wings, vertical takeoff like a rocket, and a cockpit that swiveled mid-flight—the Coléoptère was one of the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: This ungainly French plane was not meant to be. In the heady opening years of the Cold War, war planners assumed that the next European war’s opening salvos would have a ...

The Coléoptère was a French experiment from the 1950s which aspired to make a vertical take off and landing aircraft a reality. It looks like something that was an iconic, indelible part of the Atomic ...

Since the dawn of man, we have gazed into the sky and yearned to fly. Even those with a minimum of aeronautical acumen know that to achieve flight, you need wings to generate lift to get a plane off ...

In the heady opening years of the Cold War, war planners assumed that the next European war’s opening salvos would have a nuclear start. The thinking was that high priority and immobile targets like ...