This is a very fun and easy project to make for you or for a child, either way it requires a bit of skill to build it and ...

There’s a running joke in the 1984 cult classic mockumentary, “This is Spinal Tap,” about how the band keeps losing drummers. One spontaneously combusted on stage. Another choked on vomit – but not ...

Last week, Charlotte/Raleigh/Philadelphia-based Balsa Gliders blew through town for an all-too-brief visit. Billed as the “World’s Most Over-Educated Band,” the ...

In the early-to-mid 1990s the members of the Balsa Gliders were in the audience at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro watching the Veldt and Dillon Fence on stage. Two decades later, those same guys share the ...

From left: John Robison, Matt Druckerhammer and Floyd Czoski fly a One Nite28 balsa wood airplane, a Thermic B glider and a Thermic 18 glider respectively on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill ...

Balsa wood gliders wait to be purchased at the Astoria Column gift shop. One day, a kid bought a balsa wood glider at the Astoria Column gift shop and scrawled his name on it. He climbed the 164 steps ...

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This time I was flying my Joyvel Alfa Trainer, an original design airplane from scratch, I went to a place where I used to ...

Where does the balsa tree grow? Why is it so lightweight? What is it good for? Why do I even want to talk about it? Balsa trees were mentioned a few times in a story of jungle survival by a group of ...

The infectious indie-rock band Balsa Gliders breezes into town for a show at Mo Daddy’s on Friday, May 15. Asheville native Chuck Price is the drummer for the band, and the Friday night show features ...