The glider plane that slammed into a Connecticut home is still lodged in the roof — and officials are not certain how they can remove the plane without setting off a device called a ballistic rocket.

This month, we discuss sailplanes of all sorts and conduct a brief on-orbit interview with Astronaut Scott Kelly concerning his time piloting the space shuttle — actually a supersonic glider. We touch ...

Description: The H.A.W.K. aims to develop a hybrid rocket glider system that can safely and accurately deliver medical supplies to remote locations. The system will target applications such as ...

Chuck Yeager shattered the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, and the X-15 was perhaps the world’s first spaceship. But these fabulous machines hardly sprang into being from nothing. They were the ...