Sitting in my son's professional kitchen cleaning beans took me back to my parents’ ranch in Chihuahua, where one of the kids’ few daily duties was to clean a blue speckled shallow bandeja of beans.

Reminiscent of James Bond’s fold-away Acrostar mini-plane, the Cri-Cri is the world’s smallest electric plane and this week made its official maiden flight at Le Bourget airport near Paris. Jointly ...

French pilot Hugues Duval broke his own speed record for electric aircraft after topping 175 mph. He made the record-setting flight in the same twin-engine Cri Cri airplane he flew to achieve his ...

Remember the Cri-Cri, the world’s smallest electric plane? In August, we wrote how the vehicle had made its first maiden flight near Paris, and now it has shattered the speed record for electric ...

The European consortium EADS has introduced a quad-electric-motor version of the 1970s French design, the single-place, aerobatic ‘Cri Cri” (Cricket). Unveiled at the Green Aviation Show in Paris, the ...

If stardom is measured by camera time and the number of drooling onlookers, then the Green Cri was undoubtedly the star of the recent Paris Green Air Show. The experimental aerobatic electric aircraft ...

The EADS all-electric Cri-Cri made its official maiden flight on 2 September at Paris Le Bourget airport. The four-engined aerobatic aircraft - jointly developed by EADS Innovation Works, Aero ...

The electric plane separation will be the first seen in the British Isles since 1939 A rare aircraft which takes off from the back of another plane will feature in the Jersey air display. The Cri Cri, ...