Gliders

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

There are some aircraft, called gliders, that have no engines at all, but fly just fine.

Hang gliders don't lose their wing shape, whereas paragliders are collapsible.

The wings of gliders have a special shape.

One of the gliders crashed on landing.

The aerospace company Airbus Group recently completed the first flight of a glider it calls Perlan 2. The Perlan Project intends to use gliders to take measurements in the stratosphere. Scientists believe weather in the stratosphere affects the Earth’s climate more than they thought before.

Sugar gliders are my favourite animal.

Pablo only likes strange pets: tarantulas, iguanas, stick insects, sugar gliders and creatures like that.