So, what caused a highly reliable twin engine jet to turn into a glider? The short answer is fuel contamination. The Lear 35 ...

Gliders with engines do exist. They are called motor gliders and are essentially fixed-wing aircraft that can be flown with ...

The glider nose-dived to the ground and flipped, killing the pilot. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) identified the aircraft as a Schleicher ASH 26 glider. FAA says only the pilot was ...

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 Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) discusses water landings in Paragraph 6-3-3, Ditching Procedures. It lists three ...

The rudder in that altered glider and in the 1903 Flyer was controlled by the hip cradle. The combined movement of the twisting wings and of the movable rudder allowed the aircraft to bank and turn.

A pilot and passenger miraculously escaped without any major injuries after their light aircraft crashed onto a busy road. The pair's powered glider 'stalled and nose dived' onto the A419 in ...

Gliders have priority over an airship, airplane or rotorcraft. A glider, including the tow aircraft during towing operations, has the right-of-way over powered aircraft.

Christopher Tooze, 70, was in the cockpit when his aircraft smashed into a road near an airfield in Gloucestershire, but denied having been lucky despite surviving the horror crash.

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 ...

Depending on the runway and nearby fields, it is possible for a glider experiencing a rope break at 200 ft. to make a rapid 180-deg. turn to return to the runway.