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 ...

With these flights, they became the first to successfully pilot ... altered glider and in the 1903 Flyer was controlled by the hip cradle. The combined movement of the twisting wings and of ...

Lilienthal tragically perished in the world's first glider pilot fatality in 1896 ... He and his brother would make strap-on wings (although they failed to fly). He grew up to become a ...