The glider is a simple design built from foam board ... and can be used with even quite unusual aircraft. Video after the break.

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – The pilot of a glider plane died Friday after the aircraft crashed into a median on State Road 60 west of Interstate 95, officials said. The 57-year-old man was the only ...

Gliding conditions were poor on the seventh day of the 2024 National Soaring Competition last May about 60 kilometres south of Calgary near Diamond Valley, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada ...

The AAIB published this photograph of the view from the drone camera just before impact with the glider A drone was flown "intentionally" close to a glider and hit the aircraft as it was coming in ...

On a snowy day in December, 1943, while he looked out over the German town of Colditz, POW Bill Goldfinch noticed snowflakes outside his window drifting upward. Perhaps it would be possible, he ...

This faithful recreation of Sir George Cayley's pioneering glider, "The Governable Parachute ... fly and become the world's first man-carring aircraft. It did indeed fly across Brompton Dale ...

Gravity: It pulls the glider towards the ground. Lift: Differences in air pressure between the top and bottom of the rings keep the ring in the air for longer and allow it to glide like the wings of ...

A key road remains closed after a motor glider was forced to make an emergency landing while trying to touch down at a local airfield. The two-seater light aircraft crashed on the A419 Stroud Road ...

An Alberta glider pilot who died after ejecting from his plane and hitting the ground during a competition last year had a working parachute but limited experience deploying it, an investigation ...