Are plane crashes that common? Last year, there were 1,158 aviation accidents, according to the National Transportation ...

Developed by nearly 100 engineers at the Warsaw Institute of Aviation, the new I-45 JAY glider showcases Poland’s innovation ...

The glider is a simple design built from foam board ... and can be used with even quite unusual aircraft. Video after the break.

Diamond Aircraft Industries is one of the most advanced general aviation manufacturers in the world. The company was first ...

The DA42 TwinStar manufactured by Diamond Aircraft is quite an interesting light aircraft. For aircraft in this class, which ...

On a snowy day in December, 1943, while he looked out over the German town of Colditz, POW Bill Goldfinch noticed snowflakes outside his window drifting upward. Perhaps it would be possible, he ...

In a modern plane the elevator is typically located in the tail section. With an earlier glider, banking a turn would sometimes cause the aircraft to spin out of control. To prevent this ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – The pilot of a glider plane died Friday after the aircraft crashed into a median on State Road 60 west of Interstate 95, officials said. The 57-year-old man was the only ...

Waterfly Technologies, a startup incubated at IIT Madras, has developed a Wing-in-Ground (WIG) seacraft that can ...

Her name is Alice. Now, she isn't the first attempt at an electric passenger plane. Previous attempts looked like this, a glider or an old seaplane retrofitted with an electric engine. But Alice ...