The photos released last week of a Bell 412 towing a giant banner over the ... because my dad is enshrined in the U.S. Army’s record books as the first helicopter pilot ever to tow a glider.

28 thoughts on “ RC Glider Flies By Twisting Its Wings ” Noirwhal says: October 20, 2015 at 1:04 pm The first steerable human-carrying airplanes had similar operation. Wright ...

Hybrid-electric propulsion developer Ampaire has acquired glider-inspired start-up Magpie Aviation, which has worked to enable long-range electric flights with towing systems.

A Halifax aircraft towing a Hamilcar Glider near Blandford, Dorset in 1944/5. I joined 298 Squadron based in Dorset in September 1944. I was a pilot flying a 4 engine Halifax Bomber.