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 ...

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 ...

With the year's first milestone already completed, the maiden hover flight in late January of its Nuuva V300 cargo drone, ...

By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger ...

It took more than 300 years and many more failed experiments until Sir George Cayley, a British engineer, determined that flight required lift, propulsion, and control. He built a glider with a ...

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

A replica of the Colditz glider preparing for its initial flight. The materials needed to fashion the tools and glider were for the most part scavenged. The prisoners made a plane from a table ...

Otto Lilienthal built the world's first manned gliders in the 1890s. Lilienthal is credited as the father of flight for his contributions to aviation. Lilienthal tragically perished in the world's ...

The US Centennial of Flight Commission writes: “He constructed what is considered to be the first real airplane in history. This glider, which was basically a kite on top of pole, was about 5 ...