Record-setting Minden glider pilot Gordon Boettger and co-pilot Bruce Campbell completed the longest distance glider flight in the world early Monday morning. While a technicality will keep it from ...

Fred Fehsenfeld, a Purdue mechanical engineering alumnus, stands near Sky Dancer, a Pipistrel Sinus glider he gifted to Purdue. The gift effectively ushers in a new era of glider instruction and ...

The pressurized, high-altitude Perlan 2 glider is expected to reach a record-breaking altitude of 90,000 feet during the upcoming flight test campaign. The Perlan 2 glider has broken its own world ...

At the heart of flight lies Newton's third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This principle explains how an airplane wing generates lift. When an airplane moves forward, ...

Airbus completed a test flight of a glider set to eventually travel to the edge of space, in a pioneering step into the stratosphere. The Perlan 2's flight, from an airstrip in the western US state of ...

A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved in its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of fun. In this video, I explain how to make it from the beginning. In this ...

Imagine a program that gives teens a chance to fly planes on their own. Twenty-four teens from around the country descended upon southern Minnesota this week for a chance to do just that. The Civil ...