Exploring the design and deployment of German support aircraft and gliders, this documentary program highlights the airborne innovations of the Nazi Luftwaffe during World War II. Segments focus on ...

The arrival of glider troops brings reinforcements, supplies, and new challenges. Despite crash landings and heavy casualties, the 101st Airborne consolidates its positions, outsmarts the enemy, and ...

SISTERON, France (AP) - The German co-pilot accused of crashing a passenger plane in the French Alps frequented a gliding club near the crash site as a child with his parents, according to a member of ...

Gliders and gliding had been central to German aviation since the nineteenth century. When the Third Reich weaponized every aspect of flight in the 1930s, the new Luftwaffe’s pilots trained on gliders ...

German investigators have released preliminary details of a serious airprox incident in which an Airbus A321 passed close to a glider while descending towards Hamburg. German investigators have ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Monoplane hang glider built by ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The most significant pre-Wright ...

Louis Hagen. History/Spellmount (U.K.) (IPG, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-7524-6868-6 Originally published in 1945, just a few months after Britain and the U.S. launched the Allied ...