State police were unable to locate the crash site and called off the search around 11:00 a.m. after determining that the ...

Hang-gliders offer the nearest thing to being able to fly like a bird. Try for free. ... So successful was Chanute’s biplane glider that it became the blueprint for much of manned flight to follow.

The program last set an altitude record for a subsonic aircraft of any kind on Sept. 2, 2018. Pilots Jim Payne and Tim Gardner flew the Perlan II to an altitude of 76,124 ft., topping the previous, ...

This summer, two pilots sandwiched in a 36-inch-wide cabin could take the Perlan 2 glider to 90,000 feet, higher than most aircraft have flown.

Other new aircraft include classics like the 1903 Wright Flyer, the 1915 Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, the 1927 Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, the 1935 Douglas DC-3, the 1937 Grumman G-21 Goose and the 1947 ...

The glider is a single-seat, fixed-wing aircraft that doesn't have an engine, the company's website said. This is the second fatal aircraft crash near the Westside airfield within four months.

Any aircraft capable of lifting an engine and pilot, much less any sort of a payload, would be of a size so large that shifting body weight would be totally ineffectual. Further, the airfoil of ...

The aircraft will carry enough battery power for electric blankets and socks, but the pilots are more likely to overheat than freeze: Ordinary, unpressurized gliders let in cold air, so the pilots ...

Combat gliders were among the most controversial and dangerous U.S. aircraft of World War II. Silent and engineless, the fragile contraptions of plywood and canvas were towed at night behind cargo ...