How NASA used a modified Schweizer SGS 1-36 sailplane in the 1980s to study deep-stall flight and high-angle-of-attack ...

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He’s Steve Leonard, a sailplane pilot. He’s been there and back again. Sailplanes look like airplanes. They don’t have engines. A tow plane pulls sailplanes into the air with a cable. A gifted pilot ...

In an ambitious attempt to break every wing-borne sustained flight height record for a manned aircraft, the Perlan ll project intends to construct and fly a glider higher than any sailplane has gone ...

The Airbus Perlan Mission 2, a project that aims to take a glider to the very edge of space next year to gain scientific insight into the Earth’s upper atmosphere and perhaps lay the groundwork for ...

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Optimized for altitude: Jim Payne, one of the most accomplished glider pilots in the world, is one of four who will fly the purpose-built glider on its record attempts. A wall of cloud runs above the ...

Flying in a glider plane has been on Helen Davis’ bucket list for many years. “I don’t know why,” Davis said. “It’s one of those things. Just to see the world.” On Thursday morning, a little over a ...

Capt. John Lawrence of Tolland, a glider pilot, instructor and a Civil Air Patrol member at the 169th Composite Squadron in Manchester, this summer instituted orientation flights for cadets in a ...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. Historian Darrell Collins stood next to the aging replica of the Wright glider, put his hand on a strut and recounted how the mastery of manned flight actually happened a year ...

WASHINGTON – Jim Payne is preparing to fly higher than anyone has ever managed with wings, where the wispy atmosphere no longer holds color, but might just support a plane. Payne is the chief pilot of ...