MONTOUR COUNTY, Pa. — Sailplanes are soaring through the sky all weekend at the Sky High R/C Field near the Lycoming-Montour County line. "The powered plane has a 13-horse-powered motor in it, and it ...

The US military could be edging closer to fielding swarms of lightweight sailplanes for gathering intelligence or relaying signals, after validating autonomous soaring algorithms coded by the Naval ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...

Advances in laminar-flow airfoils and composites have sparked a renaissance in sailplane design. And no company seems to have exploited these two technologies more adeptly than Windward Performance in ...

"This book, Volume 1 of a projected series, describes and illustrates more than 120 types of sailplane[s] ... "--P. [4] of cover. https://siris-libraries.si.edu ...