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The pilot who died in a plane crash on Sunday at a small airport in Ottawa County lived along the air strip and had built the ...
ISSAQUAH, Wash. — A person on a fixed-wing hang glider died on Sunday in Issaquah after crews found them unconscious and unresponsive. According to Eastside Fire and Rescue, crews responded to ...
Regent describes its all-electric, wing-in-ground-effect craft as combining “the high speed of an airplane with the low operating cost of a boat”. The company says the type operates ...
David Kinsell, a 71-year-old Windsor resident, died from multiple blunt force injuries caused by the crash of a fixed wing, single-seat glider according to a post on the coroner’s website.
Paragliding involves using a parachute-like device with no structure, while hang gliders have a rigid metal frame, forming a fixed-wing-like structure with fabric stretched over it.
Schmidt was piloting the glider while being towed by a 1976 Piper PA-23-235 fixed-wing single-engine plane, but when as the glider became airborne it separated from the tow plane and nosedived ...
Sir George Cayley, who represented Scarborough in the House of Commons, developed the world's first manned, fixed-wing glider when he was in his 70s. Nicknamed the "father of aviation", ...
A drone was flown "intentionally" close to a glider and hit the aircraft as it was coming in to land, an investigation has found. The glider's wing was damaged in the mid-air collision, but the ...