glider aircraft

This was the world's first passenger flight using a glider aircraft.

The longer grass runway is for use by glider aircraft.

The main application today of glider aircraft is sport and recreation.

On the other side of the spectrum, the much slower glider aircraft are usually set to one minute turns.

Designs range from simple glider aircraft, to accurate scale models, some of which can be very large.

She is a private pilot, licensed to fly both powered and glider aircraft.

For glider aircraft to generate lift, they must maintain sufficient forward air speed.

Many types of glider aircraft are designed to exploit rising air and can therefore also soar.

Glider aircraft do not have an attached powerplant.

Today, the majority of the use of all types of glider aircraft is recreational.

It was the last in a series of glider aircraft designed by Georges Abrial.

In 1971 he and songwriter Jimmy Webb nearly died in a glider aircraft accident.

This would be 5 in powered aircraft and 5 in glider aircraft.

The most common adjustments, modelled after glider aircraft, are ailerons, elevators, and rudders.

On August 28, 1883 Montgomery tested a wing-flapping monoplane glider aircraft.

A paraglider is a lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.

Since the M2-F1 was a glider aircraft, a small rocket motor was added in order to extend the landing envelope.

Glider aircraft include sailplanes, hang gliders and paragliders.

Somehow he ended up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and put in charge to develop a high performance glider aircraft.

Associated with a powerful "ripple" in the atmosphere, the cloud may be "surfed" in glider aircraft.

The Purcell Sea Sprite was an experimental homebuilt glider aircraft.

A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the sport of gliding.

Glider aircraft that are used for purposes other than recreation, for example for military purposes, do not soar.

He is mainly remembered, however, for his pioneering studies and experiments with flying machines, including the working, piloted glider aircraft that he designed and built.

It also had 9 hangars, five of which were built for storing Horsa glider aircraft ready for D Day.