The motor glider, which is based on Diamond Aircraft's HK36 Super Dimona, is the only aircraft of its kind in the world. It is the first to use a so-called serial hybrid electric drive, ...

Most gliders are unpowered aircraft, designed to soar using nothing but natural thermal updrafts and some really clever ...

Diamond Aircraft has been producing aircraft since the 1980s. ... This glider became the best-selling motor-glider in Europe.

Austrian manufacturer also plans to ramp up DA40 production at new dedicated line in Canada from 2002 Austria's Diamond Aircraft plans to offer diesel-powered variants of its light general ...

A fuel-cell and battery-powered motor glider capable of cruising at 54kt (100km/h) is to fly this year in Spain under a project led by Boeing's Madrid research centre. The experimental powered ...