Exempel på glider

• Before the invention of gasoline motors, the only planes were gliders. 

• In the 1960s, some people began flying a new kind of small glider off the tops of hills. 

• Modern gliders have much more control and are towed into the air by another plane or by a ground vehicle or machine. 

• One was similar to a modern glider, another worked like a helicopter, and the third was a type of parachute. 

• They added an engine to their glider to create the Wright Flyer I. On December 17, 1903, they made the first successful powered flight and changed history forever. 

• When the glider is moving quickly enough, it is freed and the pilot glides on warm air to rise high in the sky. 

• Additionally, there are special arrangements for non-radio aircraft based within the area, and special provisions have been made for microlight aircraft, hang gliders and balloons.

• Although gliders are allowed to fly through airways, they are not allowed to climb up airways.

• Moreover, in some airways, sharing arrangements exist which allow gliders access for soaring when airline traffic is low.

• Many of our fast jet pilots were blooded in gliders of the air cadet movement.

• Hang-gliders are not registered and no official records are kept of accidents.

• In some areas there are to be found gliders and microlight aircraft.

• The aircraft and the gliders take off and land on grass.

• Further investigations are being carried out to determine the most appropriate colour schemes for other slower moving training aircraft and gliders.

• The air cadets have a fleet of 150 modern gliders, of which 52 are motor gliders.

• We do not build gliders in this country.

• He talked of gliders with light engines and various other things of that sort.

• A few extra motor gliders could help to solve the problem of operations from airfields that are unsuitable for conventional gliders.

• What has happened about my previous plea for a few more self-launching gliders?

• Gliders are at present permitted to cross airways in visual meteorological conditions by day without compliance with normal air traffic control rules.

• Then there are the gliders which can carry ten or twelve soldiers each.