The tub would fall five stories. The glider would then sail out silently over the town of Colditz, giving its occupants a good head start over the German guards, who would soon discover a bathtub ...

The largest combat glider operation was in Operation Varsity on March 24, 1945. Over 900 gliders carried the American 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne Division into Germany in ...

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

On January 29, a routine ski run turned into a desperate fight for survival for a German skier. A video showing him being ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight.