In a modern plane the elevator is typically located in the tail section. With an earlier glider, banking a turn would sometimes cause the aircraft to spin out of control. To prevent this ...

The glider is a simple design built from foam board ... and can be used with even quite unusual aircraft. Video after the break.

By the third glider they built, they had solved most of these problems of steering and stability. To make a self-powered airplane ... in our calculations and the design of the first machine ...

Walkalong gliders work by following a small glider, resembling a paper airplane but made from foam, with a large piece of cardboard. The cardboard generates an updraft which allows the glider to ...

An RAF transport plane and privately operated glider narrowly avoided crashing into each other during an "extremely close encounter", investigators said. The near-miss occurred above Bury St ...