But this crazy invention never quite made it off the drawing board and became forgotten in a world obsessed with machines with wings. This is the never-built ICARUS rocket! One of the very first ...

The Icarus Trophy elevates the danger quotient because ... but he soon lost interest in flying fixed-wing airplanes. “They were more of a hassle and prohibitively expensive.

There Russian astronauts will install the ICARUS data-gathering hardware during ... will be a disaster-prediction network akin to an “internet of wings.” ...