The future of the U.S. military looks a bit like a child's toy glider.
The aircraft, nicknamed the "Dragon Lady, " has an unusual glider-like design, and is notoriously difficult to handle.
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Within a few moments, a passenger jet powered by four Rolls Royce engines had become a glider.
Boeing has also flown a Dimona motor glider with an electric motor powered by a fuel cell.
Teledyne Webb's Storm Glider, meanwhile, lurks in hurricane-prone areas, bobbing up to take readings during extreme weather.
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The record-breaking 9, 000 nautical mile (16, 668km) trip took the PacX Wave Glider just over a year to achieve.
When David Lowy was 5 years old, his mother bought him a toy glider made from balsa wood.
Below the surface, the glider converts wave motion into forward thrust to tow the float no fuel, no fuss.
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The Wave Glider is the first autonomous device to turn ocean waves into energy: a robot for the sea.
It said Miss Preston had been flying paragliders for two years and started hang glider training in April 2011.
According to the manufacturer's literature this would have made the glider "somewhat more demanding of pilot skill to fly".
No defects were found with either the tug aircraft or hang glider which could have contributed to the accident.
Eve is another story: onetime dancer, air hostess, glider pilot and all-around pistol.
Wildlife encounters are likely to increase as they get more machines in the water a shark already damaged one glider.
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You can just see it clutching the top of the Wave Glider, in stormy water, like he'll never let go.
The report identified factors that "could have made it more difficult for the student pilot to control the hang glider".
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report said she weighed less than the recommended pilot weight range for the glider.
Wave Glider robots, like Alex, could potentially improve such forecasts by measuring water temperature in the oceans surrounding a storm.
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It weighs just 1, 500 kilograms, making it five times lighter than a high-performance glider would be if made that big.
They jump over walls, leap tall buildings in a single inhuman bound, and they can even attack a low-flying hang glider!
"The SV3 enables unparalleled, pervasive collection of data and processing of data, " said Roger Hine, CTO and inventor of the Wave Glider.
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The Wave Glider SV Series is available for sale today with deliveries of the Wave Glider SV3 beginning in Q3 of 2013.
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Customers now can choose the Wave Glider that best fits their mission and budgetary requirements, or mix and match for complex operations.
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On her second attempt the same day, the glider started deviating to the left while still attached to the aircraft towing it.
The glider then descended in a spiral and hit the concrete and asphalt runway, and Miss Preston sustained a severe head injury.
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The minimum age of solo glider pilots in the UK was lowered from 16 to 14 in October, the same as Europe.
In March it launched the SeaExplorer, a streamlined, wingless glider with a speed of one knot twice as fast as the American competition.
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For a limited time, Liquid Robotics is offering a Wave Glider SV3 sales incentive program as well as a Wave Glider buyback program.
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Similarly, the board believed that a hang-glider or para-motor would be radar significant and that conditions precluded them, as they did para-gliders or parascenders.
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