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 ...

Are plane crashes that common? Last year, there were 1,158 aviation accidents, according to the National Transportation ...

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 ...

"The longest glider flight is three thousand eight hundred kilometers," said the Polish pilot. "In one segment, a straight-line distance of two thousand two hundred and fifty kilometers was flown ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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