glider

     

Gliers or Sailplanes are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. See also gliding and motor gliders for more details.

Trivia about glider

  • A swinging couch suspended from a vertical frame or a light aircraft with no engine
  • Before 1900, Otto Lilienthal had invented one of these engineless airplanes with arched wings like a bird's
  • On August 28, 1884 John Montgomery made the first manned flight of one of these engineless planes at Otay, Calif.
  • This type of aircraft is sometimes called a sailplane
  • A joey of this marsupial with the same name as a non-powered aircraft takes flight at about 3 and a half months
  • The flying possum doesn't fly; well-developed flaps of skin along its flanks have it known by this 6-letter term

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