A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved on its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of fun. In this video, I explain how to make it from the beginning. In this ...

Officials with the Academy of Model Aeronautics, the 175,000-member national organization that oversees remote-control gliders, say the ordinance is unique.

The 2025 FAI F3K World Championships for Model Gliders has come to a close with three new World Champions of FAI model gliding crowned, in Tarp, Germany, following an intense competition with six days ...

The Model Sailplane Second Annual Open House will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12 in Carnation. September 8, 2010 6:34 pm The Model Sailplane Second Annual Open House will be held ...

After four days of tough competition, the aeromodelling athletes at the 2025 FAI F3K World Championships for Model Gliders must retain their focus for the last day of preliminary rounds: Friday 1 ...

A local dentist named Bob Chase set a soaring endurance record at the Torrey Pines Gliderport in 1956, Fogel said, controlling a model glider for 8½ hours remotely.

Steve Friday launches his glider into the wind. Model airplane enthusiasts fly radio-controlled gliders near Lake Del Valle on 9/3/05 in Livermore, Calif. PAUL CHINN/The Chronicle ...

Local News Costa Mesa looking at how model trains, gliders might fit into new Fairview Park plan Trails go around vernal pools at Fairview Park in Costa Mesa, CA.

The Tesla Model X is the first all-electric vehicle with a significant towing capacity. We have seen it tow boats, trailers, and even other cars, but a Model X owner in the Netherlands is pushing ...

As the pitch angle control system of an underwater glider is nonlinear, multivariate, and has strong coupling, active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) was applied in the pitch angle control loop.