While helicopters and other aircraft have complicated sensors, sometimes lo-fi works best, like a string taped to a chopper's ...

Witness the video that dives deep into the fascinating science behind glider flight, explaining how these sleek aircraft use natural forces like thermals, ridge lifts, and gravity to soar for hours.

The aircraft in question ... wingspan that was originally designed as a hang glider. It sure looks like fun to fly with a regular ol' propeller on the back: SWIFT 3 Glider Debut at Coup Icare ...

In the years after World War I, when aviation was all the rage in Europe and North America but the Treaty of Versailles banned the production of military aircraft in Germany, glider clubs sprang ...

A glider pilot in his 70s has died after the aircraft he was on crashed into a field in West Sussex. A 73-year-old man has died after a glider incident in the village of Barlavington, West Sussex.