- A
glider or
sailplane is a type of
glider aircraft used in the
leisure activity and
sport of
gliding (also
called soaring). This
unpowered aircraft can...
-
Jonker Sailplanes is a
glider manufacturer based in Potchefstroom,
South Africa. Uys
Jonker and his brother,
Attie Jonker founded Jonker Sailplanes in 2004...
- air
sport in
which pilots fly
unpowered aircraft known as
gliders or
sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of
rising air in the
atmosphere to...
- self-sustaining gliders".
Retrieved 4
September 2006. "Guide to Self-launching
Sailplane Operation".
Archived from the
original on 12
March 2008.
Retrieved 4 September...
- production. The
rights to the
design were
taken over by a new entity,
Diana Sailplanes,
which developed the
design further into the
Diana 2. The
Diana 2 first...
-
Advanced Soaring Concepts (ASC) was an
American sailplane manufacturer based in Camarillo, California.
Founded in 1991 by Tor
Jensen and
Dewey Northcutt...
-
advocates for, researches, and
performs cryonics Alcor sailplane, a high
altitude pressurized sailplane developed by
aeronautical engineer Robert Lamson ALCOR...
-
Forschungsanstalt für
Segelflug (German for 'German
Research Institute for
Sailplane Flight' / 'German
Institute for
Glider Research'), or DFS , was formed...
- Abbott-Baynes
Sailplanes Ltd. was a 1930s
glider manufacturing company based at Wrecclesham, near Farnham, Surrey. It was
founded as a
subsidiary of E...
- The
Sailplane Corporation of
America was a US
manufacturer of
sailplanes founded by Gus
Briegleb at a
former US Army
Airfield at El
Mirage Dry Lake in...
