One of America’s leading aircraft designers, Jack Northrop, showed keen interest in the Horten brothers’ flying-wing glider back in the 1930s and built flying-wing airplanes of his own in the ...

A replica of the world’s first series aircraft passed its test in the German-Dutch wind ... of the design by the aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal. Lilienthal's biplane glider passed its flow test in ...

The biplane glider with the wingtips drawn together, second from the left, is almost certainly Laurence Lesh’s aircraft. For those in attendance, the red automobile poised to tow the glider ...

Editor's Note: The story has been corrected to reflect that Bradley Daar did not build the glider involved in the ... including Piper Archer airplanes and hot air balloons, before getting into ...