Most gliders are unpowered aircraft, designed to soar using nothing but natural thermal updrafts and some really clever ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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", ...

Wing warping To assist in making a turn, ... To prevent this, the Wrights added a fixed tail to their 1902 glider and then altered it into a movable rudder in the same year. The rudder in that ...

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 ...

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 ...