ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Over 100 pilots and crew members from different countries have gathered at Harris Hill, each one bringing unique skills to the meet. This year’s meet is special because the ...

A creative bunch of tinkerers think the recent trend of self-launching gliders needs a bit of a boost. So instead of outfitting their high-performance sailplane with an electric or small piston motor, ...

MONTOUR COUNTY, Pa. — Sailplanes are soaring through the sky all weekend at the Sky High R/C Field near the Lycoming-Montour County line. "The powered plane has a 13-horse-powered motor in it, and it ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HARVEST, Ala. (WHNT) – The North Alabama ...

He’s Steve Leonard, a sailplane pilot. He’s been there and back again. Sailplanes look like airplanes. They don’t have engines. A tow plane pulls sailplanes into the air with a cable. A gifted pilot ...

The US military could be edging closer to fielding swarms of lightweight sailplanes for gathering intelligence or relaying signals, after validating autonomous soaring algorithms coded by the Naval ...

(Nanowerk News) Eight active spacecraft, including three operated by NASA, orbit Mars, gathering imagery of the planet's surface at a resolution of about 1 foot per pixel. Three rovers traverse the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BOULDER — Forget Icarus. Human beings have longed to soar skyward ever since some distant ancestor was being pursued by a saber-tooth tiger. One of the most ...

Advances in laminar-flow airfoils and composites have sparked a renaissance in sailplane design. And no company seems to have exploited these two technologies more adeptly than Windward Performance in ...