SISTERON, France (AP) - The German co-pilot accused of crashing a passenger plane in the French Alps frequented a gliding club near the crash site as a child with his parents, according to a member of ...

Airplanes may get all the airborne attention when discussing World War II, but military gliders also made huge contributions ...

MONTABAUR, Germany — Andreas Lubitz never appeared anything but thrilled to have landed a pilot’s job with Germanwings, according to those who helped him learn to fly as a teenager in this town in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The most significant pre-Wright ...

Louis Hagen. History/Spellmount (U.K.) (IPG, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-7524-6868-6 Originally published in 1945, just a few months after Britain and the U.S. launched the Allied ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A bag of miscellaneous hardware from ...