An excellent glider to start in the hobby, with 2400 mm of wingspan it's a big intimidating glider but amazing at the same ...

Longest glider flight, 8 years after their first powered flight. Oct. 24, 2011 — -- "For some years," wrote Wilbur Wright in 1900, "I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible ...

A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved in its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of ...

Fred Fehsenfeld, a Purdue mechanical engineering alumnus, stands near Sky Dancer, a Pipistrel Sinus glider he gifted to Purdue. The gift effectively ushers in a new era of glider instruction and ...

Solo pilot James Curtis took to the air on his never-to-forget flight on January 11 at the Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club (ESGC).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DODGE CITY, Kan. (KSNW) – Two continental flight records are broken in Dodge City, Kansas. Two Nevada pilots took a glider from ...

At the heart of flight lies Newton's third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This principle explains how an airplane wing generates lift. When an airplane moves forward, ...

What were you doing when you were 8 years old? For Harmon Brown, now 14, he was starting ground school. Typically reserved for high school students, the course provides prospective pilots with their ...

With blue skies and high cumulus clouds, Steve Rathbun knew he had the perfect weather conditions for his glider plane to soar all the way from Utah to South Dakota — without an engine.

Training Camps 'It's become 'the' climb in the area' – Why the Coll de Rates is the hottest climb in the cycling world right now, with riders flocking to challenge Tadej Pogačar's Strava record ...

ABOVE: The Helping Dreams gliding scholarships provide recipients with the opportunity to undertake glider and powered-flying ...