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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Although Plate and Townsend’s flight as well as their plane, which was dubbed the “Lima Glider,” disappeared from the news after an exhibit at the Lima YMCA in January 1912, the story has ...

Mr Scutching aims to raise $20,000 – and promises the highest donor a flight in the glider. You can donate here. Many people experience feelings of trepidation about turning 50 – but not ...