This pilot gets props for a great landing. Mark Pennell was enjoying a leisurely flight in his Rans S-10 Sakota, flying around Camillus in upstate New York recently, when his single-engine plane lost ...

Although zero-emission air travel may sound like a thing of the future, gliders have a long history, which can be traced back to the birth of aeronautics. Before the Wright brothers famously outfitted ...

UK-based ProAirsport has developed a hybrid microlight/glider with electrically powered wheels used for taxiing and takeoff, and a jet turbine for climbing and cruising. During flight, the engine can ...

A former Durango man who died this week in a motorized glider plane crash near Telluride was remembered as a fine woodworker as well as a longtime pilot. Robert B. Saunders, 64, known to some as ...

WALKER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- It was just before 4 p.m. Friday when a glider plane crashed on Wildcat Mountain about a mile and a half behind a pond near Tamaqua. According to the coroner, William D. Hanson ...

The only thing better than a perfectly made paper airplane arcing through the air is that same airplane refusing to land because it’s got an electric motor. And all you need is Power Up, a kit that ...

“Can you feel that? We’ve got a little lift here.” Jim Kennard banked left over a gulch near the summit of the Tehachapi Mountains and the glider climbed slowly in a circle on a weak, invisible bubble ...

The Stemme S10 is a self-launching sailplane produced by Stemme AG in Strausberg, Germany since the 1980s. The engine is mounted amidships and it features an unusual folding propeller which is stowed ...

Flight tests have been completed with a "silent" 1.68m (5.5ft)-span propeller that French aerospace research agency Onera refers to as Anibal. The five-blade propeller was test flown on a Robin ...

The Perlan 2 sailplane/glider, which had its first test flight last September in Oregon, will attempt to reach its optimal cruising altitude of 90,000 feet as early as this coming June in Argentina, ...

ZEELAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A plane crash that killed an 80-year-old in Zeeland Township last month happened as the plane rolled during takeoff, according to a preliminary report from the ...