With a sleek flying wing design and speeds reaching 200 mph, the XCG-16 was no ordinary glider. Built as an experimental assault aircraft during WWII, it pushed the limits of stealth and speed ...

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

One of those rare aircraft is the Waco CG-4 troop glider. Early in World War II, the Germans had had success using gliders to land troops in combat zones, so the U.S. Army decided to develop a ...

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 ...