Inspired by insect flight rather than propellers or jets, French engineers developed a working ornithopter that flapped its wings to generate lift and propulsion. Built to study efficient low speed ...

MMORPG of the Year. This is our equivalent award for other sites' Game of the Year honors, and we typically award it to whichever MMO or MMORPG we felt had the best overall year, whether it's because ...

Leonardo da Vinci was one who dreamed of the possibility of human flight, often considered a conceptual forerunner of the helicopter. Leonardo da Vinci devoted considerable study to the observations ...

Before I go into my list of movies to look forward to in 2026, I am compelled to say (again) “Sinners” is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best film of 2025. It is hard to describe in one sentence — ...

It’s the quiet period of the year, where many events and sites alike are running their own lists of the year. We at The Escapist are no different with our very own GOTY list awards. But, for some ...

Offering a brief line of text and several sidebars per spread, Into the Air: An Illustrated Timeline of Flight by Ryan Ann Hunter, illus. by Yan Nascimbene, charts the development of flight from ...