glider

The base was used for three squadrons of Spitfires under Great Britain’s Royal Air Force, and supported airborne and assault glider operations as well.

If they were gliders, their parents would have had to care for the babies until they were flight-ready.

An ongoing assessment may lead to the gliders being recategorized from vulnerable to endangered.

Even as a “failed experiment,” though, these gliders can help scientists understand the origins of flight, Dececchi and his colleagues concluded.

Although Archaeopteryx wasn’t a particularly great flier either, Dececchi says, it was a stronger glider and possibly could flap its wings a bit.

Occasionally someone climbed over it or crashed through it or dug under it, or made himself a glider and flew through it.

I especially enjoy the scene where he uses a kite as a hang-glider.

You go in a rocket-powered glider, shoot up for 60 miles, and fall down for five minutes, so it gives you a simulated zero-G.

Lilienthal, “the Glider King,” was the first person to make repeated, successful flights on a glider.

The Daily Beast rounds up seven more, from the Glider King to the flying taxi inventor.

Thus is the Aeroplane "nose-heavy" as a glider, and just so to a degree ensuring a speed of glide equal to its flying speed.

Meanwhile I made a lot of turn-table and glider models and started in upon an idea of combining gas-bags and gliders.

It is also the principle which governs the airplane or glider, whose planes are kept at a definite angle to the air current.

For where the biplane has an intricate control system, Lilienthal relied entirely upon his own body to operate his glider.

Pilcher adopted an even more original scheme for making his glider “go.”