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- A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding (also called soaring). This unpowered aircraft can...
- Jonker Sailplanes is a glider manufacturer based in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Uys Jonker and his brother, Attie Jonker founded Jonker Sailplanes in 2004...
- self-sustaining gliders". Retrieved 4 September 2006. "Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation". Archived from the original on 12 March 2008. Retrieved 4 September...
- air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to...
- Yorkshire, England. The company was founded to design and build gliders and sailplanes. From the early 1930s to around 1970 it built over 50% of all British...
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- exploration and atmospheric science research organization that utilizes sailplanes (gliders) designed to fly at extremely high altitudes. On 29 August 2006...
- The Schweizer Aircraft Corporation was an American manufacturer of sailplanes, agricultural aircraft and helicopters located in Horseheads, New York. It...
- Advanced Soaring Concepts (ASC) was an American sailplane manufacturer based in Camarillo, California. Founded in 1991 by Tor Jensen and Dewey Northcutt...
- Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (German for 'German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight' / 'German Institute for Glider Research'), or DFS , was formed...