FAI F3K World Championships for Model Gliders – taking place from 26 July to 2 August in Tarp, Germany – will feature the ...

At the bottom of a swimming pool on MIT’s campus, researchers keep testing a strange glider. The glider doesn’t have a propeller, nor does it resemble any known fish. It’s like a mix between a paper ...

When Dr Ana Gracanin of the Australian National University placed an infrared camera inside a large tree hollow used by greater gliders as a nest, she didn’t expect to see the glider father ...

World-First Livestream Reveals Secret Lives Of Greater Gliders, Including Never-Before-Seen Behaviors One nesting box camera is revolutionizing what we know about this exceptional and endangered ...

No guns, no engines, no second chances: the little-known story of WWII’s glider pilots For his 11th book, San Diego military writer Scott McGaugh explores the “Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin ...

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In the US, the glider program became the responsibility of the Army Air Forces, which, until then, had little interest in gliders. The Army’s new airborne divisions – two at first, eventually five – ...

According to the National Soaring Society, McAllister was the first person to fly a glider in Washington, in 1930, using a Cessna CG-2 primary glider.

In September 1900, the Wrights made their first trip to the little fishing hamlet that they would make world famous. Although the control system worked well and the structural design of the craft was ...

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