Sailplane

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The shocking details of a near tragedy in the skies.

Taking off from aircraft carriers is never routine, and there have been many accidents. Ejector seats have saved many of these pilots – including some whose planes were already under the water.

Researchers want to know more about the Red Planet's enigmatic geology and thin atmosphere.

Can anyone point me to statistics on the safety record of gliders vs. single engine general aviation aircraft?

Airbus UpNext plans to flight test a hydrogen-burning engine at altitude on a powered glider.

Eight active spacecraft, including three operated by NASA, orbit Mars, gathering imagery of the planet's surface at a resolution of about 1 foot per pixel. Three rovers traverse the ground, mapping small areas of the planet with greater precision. But what lies in the hundreds of kilometers between the rovers and the orbiters—including atmospheric climate processes and geological features like volcanoes and…

One person has died in the crash of an ultralight in central New Mexico, authorities said Monday. Federal Aviation Administration officials said the crash...

An American Airlines flight headed to Phoenix on Sunday morning returned to Ohio's John Glenn Columbus International Airport because a bird strike disabled an engine, officials said.

Following NASA's recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight] figured that if it helps with those airplanes, perhaps it may...

With a US$425-million cash injection from NASA, Boeing will build and test a full-sized airliner based on its transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) concept, using long, thin, strut-braced wings to add lift, reduce drag, and burn an impressive 30% less fuel.

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We present the preliminary design of sailplanes, used for Mars exploration. The sailplanes mitigate the weight and energy storage limitations traditionally associated with powered flight by instead exploiting atmospheric wind gradients for dynamic soaring, and slope/thermal updrafts for static soaring. Equations of motion for the sailplanes were combined with wind profiles from the Mars Regional Atmospheric…

The highly anticipated flight sim update is coming later this year. Here's what to expect as far as content, aircraft, features, and release date.

Microsoft claims Flight Simulator 2024 will be the most sophisticated, immersive, and awe-inspiring flight simulator of all time, utilizing the latest simulation, cloud, and machine learning technologies....

Francis Rogallo's invention would have brought returning space vehicles in for a runway landing, instead of an ocean splashdown

Researchers have proposed an experimental sailplane that operates without a motor and that could sail through the Martian air for days at a time.