While scouring large swaths of land for prey, predators like hawks and eagles will often take advantage of rising thermals to stay airborne and glide for extended periods with minimal effort. Humans ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Birds don’t always ...

Now it's time to make this very classic but small model airplane, this is a free flight rubber powered airplane that can fly indoors, you can fly it as a glider or as a rubber powered model, it uses ...

Scientists are working on perfecting a pressurized glider that will attempt to fly to the edge of space next year, higher than any glider has ever been before. The Perlan 2 glider, a pressurized ...

Instructions for building, launching, and flying model gliders. Includes suggestions for contest flying. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...

Editor’s Note: CNN’s Thom Patterson covered the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Follow him on Twitter at @thompatterson. Crowds of aviation enthusiasts ...