Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

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 ...

This story appears in the September 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Perched on the edge of a cold, windswept dune in North Carolina, I was about to fulfill a dream I shared with ...

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 ...

The pilot of a small glider plane has died after crashing near an airport in southern Connecticut, state police announced Saturday. Bradley Daar, 70, of Clinton, was piloting a single-engine ...

The pilot spotted an ASH 31 glider ahead of its position before "rapidly disconnecting the autopilot" and performing a hard left turn to avoid a mid-air crash at about 15:30 BST. The UK Airprox ...