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 ...

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 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 ...

Single-engine propeller planes are a common type of small aircraft. One of their unique traits are the angled engines, and ...

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.

State police investigating fatal ultralight glider crash in Deep River Share this: Click to ... around 4:15 p.m. for a report of a small glider aircraft that crashed in the woods near ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...