Wired.com tweaks Aviation.com's list of the greatest innovations of aviation in the past 100 years.

You knew it would happen. Look for it in showrooms as early as 2010.

French adventurer Stephane Rousson is blown out of the air in his attempt to pedal a dirigible across the English Channel.

A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, parachuting into a field near the white cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight. The trip across the Channel is meant to trace the route of French aviator Louis Bleriot, the first person to cross in an airplane 99 years ago.

Knocking down these obsolete slabs of concrete and replacing them with boulevards would go a long way toward revitalizing the cities they bisect.