But don’t go by glider!” About 1,100 gliders were made ... Years ago, an unrelated company that calls itself the WACO Aircraft Corp. started making a contemporary version of the WACO biplane ...

One of those rare aircraft is the Waco CG-4 troop glider. Early in World War II, the Germans had had success using gliders to land troops in combat zones, so the U.S. Army decided to develop a ...

Today, we feature the marker at the WACO Aircraft Company (Weaver Aircraft ... The company also managed the U.S. Army’s glider program for 15 companies that produced gliders nationwide.

Villaume was one of more than 16 U.S. companies contracted to build gliders designed by the Waco Aircraft Company. At the height of the glider boom, Villaume employed 1,500 people—mostly women ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I take a look at the incredible Airborne Museum in the Normandy town of Sainte Mère Église, famous for it being the first town liberated by US Forces on D-DAY, 6th ...

There were tracers from enemy anti-aircraft guns and explosions off ... flying aboard a CG-4A Waco troop/cargo glider, survived the landing in a 200-foot hedgerow field near Normandy and the ...

Those machines also saw action June 6, 1944, known as D-Day. The WACO CG-4A glider delivered cargo carrying the tools of war, but some parts of the plane were made at Gibson Guitar, one of the ...