An electric-powered sailplane designed to ease challenges of training glider pilots has completed its experimental test phase and is being prepared for industrialization under a European-funded ...

In the early years of World War II, a handful of remote airstrips in the Mojave Desert were transformed into training facilities for America’s first military stealth aircraft. The new airfields at ...

About Face. Early in 1941, Secretary Stimson said: “Flight training in gliders or sailplanes as a preliminary step in power-plane training is of doubtful value, and it is believed the cost is not ...

“I mean, what kid doesn’t want to get in a plane and fly?” he said. "I happened to see the sign out by the road that said 'learn to fly,' and that’s when I stopped in.” The program, offered through ...

Of all his expertise, pilot Chesley Sullenberger’s training in flight without engines was likely a key component in his ability to save all 155 people on board US Airways Flight 1459, a local glider ...