That basic principle still applies today, but as modern technology has brought stronger and lighter materials to market at lower costs, modern gliders and sailplanes can travel greater distances.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a deadly sailplane crash in Warren County Friday afternoon. It happened around 1:21 p.m. on Elbon Road at the Caesar Creek Soaring Club in ...

We’ve seen a few variometers in the past, most often for full-scale sailplane or hang glider pilots. Almost every full-scale plane has a variometer as part of its suite of gauges – usually ...

Becoming proficient in hang gliding doesn't happen overnight. In the beginning, you might feel like a clumsy penguin—waddling ...

Gliding conditions were poor on the seventh day of the 2024 National Soaring Competition last May about 60 kilometres south of Calgary near Diamond Valley, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada ...

Despite this, [rctestflight] decided to run some experiments to see just how PX4 would fare when controlling a drone-launched shuttle glider. The glider is a simple design built from foam board ...