Pivotal is a Palo Alto-based company developing an ultralight, electric aircraft for recreational use and short-haul travel.

Yuba County supervisors last week voted to allow ultralight planes to fly from the Yuba County Airport, ending what amounted to a yearslong ban of the recreational flying machines that prompted a ...

New video from Alef Aeronautics shows the company's flying car prototype driving, taking off and flying over another vehicle in a simulation of a blocked traffic scenario. New videos from Alef ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Most mornings, when the air lies still on the ridges of the North Cascades ...

A bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Tucson Democrat, would amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to include ultralight aircraft under the aviation smuggling provisions. That would allow ...