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.

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 ...

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 all-electric MC15E Cri Cri airplane, piloted by Hugues Duval, recently broke its own speed record for electric aircraft by reaching 153 knots. It is powered by twin 35-horsepower Electravia ...

An electric aircraft has crossed the English Channel for the first time. The question is, which one is it? On Friday, Airbus Group announced that its E-Fan technology demonstrator claimed the prize by ...

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 ...

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 ...