Flying 10 meters off the ground or 10,000 still puts you 150,000,000,000 meters from that big ball of gas. So, Icarus could fly as close to the Sun as he wanted to, it wouldn’t have made a practical ...

Kyoto, Japan -- "Don't fly too close to the sun," said Daedalus to Icarus. Flying too high would melt the wax in his wings, while going too low would cause the sea's moisture to create drag ...

He soon finished the "Icarus II" and the original "Icarus" became the "Icarus I." The "Icarus II" was another biplane but the wings swept back more steeply. Taras set an endurance record of one hour ...

In Greek myth, Icarus was the high-flying son of Daedalus who, due to his own arrogance, flew too close to the sun. Now his name has been given to a newly-discovered moth, Admetovis icarus, thanks ...