The XCG-16 was a revolutionary flying wing glider designed to carry 42 soldiers or heavy artillery into battle. With speeds up to 200 MPH and a futuristic design, it promised to change airborne ...

Using a textbook discovered in the prison library, Goldfinch and Best, both engineers, worked out the specifications for a glider. It would carry a pilot and one passenger. The wings would have ...

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are ...

Terrifying video showed Stecanella gliding towards his left for about 20 seconds and before making a sharp right turn. The wings then suddenly closed, causing Stecanella to drop 656 feet to the ...

In high school, John Pierce experienced a period of “glider madness.” He eventually became airborne and won some prizes at a San Diego glider meet in 1929. In the same year he published his first book ...

wing-like pectoral fins get them airborne. Flying fish are thought to have evolved this remarkable gliding ability to escape predators, of which they have many. Their pursuers include mackerel ...

REGENT Craft has conducted the first sea trial of a full-scale ground-in-wing Seaglider prototype in Narragansett Bay ...