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A glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine. [1] Most gliders do not have an engine, although motor-gliders have small engines for extending their flight when necessary by sustaining the altitude (normally a ...
A 1786 depiction of the Montgolfier brothers ' balloon. Early flying machines include all forms of aircraft studied or constructed before the development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern flight begins more than a century before the first successful manned aeroplane, and the earliest aircraft thousands of years before.
Rolladen-Schneider LS4. (video) A glider sails over Gunma, Japan. A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding (also called soaring). [1] [2] This unpowered aircraft can use naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to gain altitude.
The Waco CG-4 was the most widely used American troop/cargo military glider of World War II. It was designated the CG-4A by the United States Army Air Forces, [ 1] and given the service name Hadrian (after the Roman emperor) by the British. The glider was designed by the Waco Aircraft Company. Flight testing began in May 1942.
This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available) [1] Note: Any aircraft can glide for a short time, but gliders are designed to glide for longer.
The Schweizer SGS 2-32 is an American two-seat, mid-wing, two or three-place glider built by Schweizer Aircraft of Elmira, New York. [3] The 2-32 was designed to be the highest performance two-place glider available, when it first flew in 1962. The 2-32 has been used as a tourist glider, trainer, cross-country and high-altitude sailplane and ...
Germany. Blohm & Voss BV 40 (1944), fighter prototype. Blohm & Voss BV 246, glide bomb. Not used operationally. DFS 230, light transport, 10 troops. DFS 331, heavy freight glider prototype, 1 built. Focke-Achgelis Fa 225, rotary wing glider. 1 built. Gotha Go 242 (1941), transport, 23 troops. 1,528 built. Gotha Go 244, motorised version of Go ...
C-GAUN, the aircraft involved in the accident, photographed 2 years after the incident. Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on Saturday, July 23, 1983, [1] at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight.