Previous attempts looked like this, a glider or an old seaplane retrofitted ... The bigger the battery, the more power for the plane, but a bigger battery also means more weight to lift, so ...

By the third glider they built, they had solved most of these problems of steering and stability. To make a self-powered airplane, they needed to develop a very light gasoline engine and an ...

The pilot of a small glider plane has died after crashing near an airport in southern Connecticut, state police announced Saturday. Bradley Daar, 70, of Clinton, was piloting a single-engine ...

With these flights, they became the first to successfully pilot a power-driven ... In a modern plane the elevator is typically located in the tail section. With an earlier glider, banking a ...

DEEP RIVER, Conn. (WTNH) — A Clinton man is dead after a glider plane crashed into woods Friday afternoon in Deep River, according to state police. The crash happened around 4:15 p.m. in the ...