NOTE: This is the 18th article in a series about Clent Breedlove’s Plainview Pre-Glider School at Finney Field. In the last article, the opening date of the Plainview Pre-glider School at Finney Field ...

During its harried 18-month career the Army Air Forces glider program has found the winds of public and official esteem as tricky as the thermal air currents over a mountain peak. Like many another ...

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 ...

The launch of a glider is frequently done in the U.S. with a tow plane. The launching process is aided with the help of a couple of willing volunteers who will pull the glider into position on the ...

ABOVE: The Foundation operates two aircraft, a MDM-1 Fox two-seater and a SZD-59 Acro high-performance single-seater ...