A creative bunch of tinkerers think the recent trend of self-launching gliders needs a bit of a boost. So instead of outfitting their high performance sailplane with an electric or small piston motor, ...

Sailplanes are fun and all, but they are gliders at heart and for the most part, you have to tow a glider up into the sky before you can fly it. Obviously this is problematic since you have to hire a ...

The two-seat BonusJet, a sport version of the Super Salto jet-powered sailplane, is being marketed by Desert Aerospace. The BonusJet uses a retractable PBS TJ-100 jet engine for smooth, vibration-free ...

A glider pilot told investigators he was in a spiraling turn at about 50 knots above Mount Siegel when he turned south and suddenly saw a jet aircraft heading toward him. Akihiro Hirao said he had ...

An RAF Jaguar jet came within 100m of colliding with two gliders in Powys, it has been revealed. An official report has found that the risk of a collision was high, and that a disaster was averted was ...