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1 dead in glider plane crash off State Road 60 west of Interstate 95
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – The pilot of a glider plane died Friday after the aircraft crashed into a median on State Road 60 west of Interstate 95, officials said. The 57-year-old man was the only ...
The Wright Brothers invented airplanes, right? But should credit go to this Sutter County native?
He was an aviation pioneer, the father of controlled flight, the subject of a Glenn Ford movie, and yet most outside ...
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Running A Glider With The PX4 Flight Controller
Despite this, [rctestflight] decided to run some experiments to see just how PX4 would fare when controlling a drone-launched shuttle glider. The glider is a simple design built from foam board ...
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“There’s nothing like soaring through the air in a glider”
The USS is a partner of the Toronto Soaring Club, an organization for people who want to fly gliders, and the note mentioned the possibility of an introductory flight. I didn’t know anything ...
Glider pilot who died had working parachute but limited experience deploying, says report
Gliding conditions were poor on the seventh day of the 2024 National Soaring Competition last May about 60 kilometres south ...
TSB says glider pilot killed after his parachute failed to properly deploy
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has released the results of its investigation into the fatal crash of a glider near Diamond Valley in May 2024.
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Identity released of 57-year-old man who died in glider plane crash Friday afternoon
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – The man who died in glider plane crash in Indian River County Friday has been identified as Brian Richard Daems, 57, according to a recently-released report from the Indian ...