Aircraft capable of Vertical Takeoff and Landing, or VTOL, have always captivated aviation enthusiasts with their strangeness and militaries with their versatility. However, the fact that their ...

Aviation and football fans alike turned out in droves to participate in Hiller Aviation Museum’s “Flying Football Fun Fest” before today’s Super Bowl. Children ran around with parachutes, similar to ...

The Hiller Aviation Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate, was opened to the public in 1998 by helicopter designer and inventor Stanley Hiller Jr. and features a collection of over 50 aircraft from more ...

In the early 1940s, an attendant at a gas station off Interstate 80 between San Francisco and Sacramento was dutifully performing full service. In the middle of pumping gas, checking dipsticks and ...

- Today on Pilots, Props and Planes, we're at the fantastic Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California. This museum is loaded, literally, to the rafters with every kind of flying machine ever ...

If you’re of a certain age, you may remember a classic 1978 episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati” that featured the radio station’s Thanksgiving promotion of dropping turkeys from a helicopter into a ...

Stanley Hiller Jr., who designed and built helicopters, turned around troubled companies, and founded a popular aviation museum, died April 20 at his Atherton home from complications of Alzheimer’s ...

If you’ve been traveling on Highway 101, you’ve no doubt passed the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos and probably saw the little white plane perched on its roof. It’s a Rutan Long-EZ aircraft, the ...

If you've ever dreamed of running on an actual airport runway, the Hiller Aviation Museum has the perfect event for you this Sunday. The 9th Annual Airport Runway Run will take place at the Hiller ...