- 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...
- self-sustaining gliders".
Retrieved 4
September 2006. "Guide to Self-launching
Sailplane Operation".
Archived from the
original on 12
March 2008.
Retrieved 4 September...
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Jonker Sailplanes is a
glider manufacturer based in Potchefstroom,
South Africa. Uys
Jonker and his brother,
Attie Jonker founded Jonker Sailplanes in 2004...
- This is a list of gliders/
sailplanes of the world, (this
reference lists all
gliders with references,
where available) Note: Any
aircraft can
glide for...
- Yorkshire, England. The
company was
founded to
design and
build gliders and
sailplanes. From the
early 1930s to
around 1970 it
built over 50% of all British...
-
extending their flight when
necessary by
sustaining the
altitude (normally a
sailplane relies on
rising air to
maintain altitude) with some
being powerful enough...
- Co is a
major manufacturer of
sailplanes located in Poppenhausen, near
Fulda in Germany. It is also the
oldest sailplane manufacturer in the world. The...
- air
sport in
which pilots fly
unpowered aircraft known as
gliders or
sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of
rising air in the
atmosphere to...
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Fulda district and is
known as the "cradle of gliding".
Great advances in
sailplane development took
place here
during the
interwar period,
driven by annual...
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advocates for, researches, and
performs cryonics Alcor sailplane, a high
altitude pressurized sailplane developed by
aeronautical engineer Robert Lamson ALCOR...
