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Definition of Gliders
1. glider [n] - See also: glider
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gliders
Literary usage of Gliders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's Aircraft Book: Why Aeroplanes Fly, how to Make Models, and All by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"Most of the biplane gliders are so similar to the Chanute type already described
that ... A very different class of gliders is that of the monoplane type, ..."
2. Harper's Aircraft Book: Why Aeroplanes Fly, how to Make Models, and All by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"gliders are really very important things, for the various experiments that led
to the invention and construction of the first real aeroplanes were made by ..."
3. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"CHANUTE gliders These gliders, with which such remarkable work was done at Dune
Park, Indiana, in Figure 237.—Chanute Biplane Glider. ..."
4. Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story by Martin Wolfe (1989)
"The fascination gliders hold for everybody is linked to man's eternal yearning
for free flight. To me on the ground it was a beautiful sight, on a good day, ..."
5. The Mysteries of the Flowers by Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917)
"AIR gliders No one knows how long ago ambitious navigators learned to hitch their
frail barques to the sea breeze to carry their cargoes, but it is certain ..."
6. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"by towing through the air at the end of a cord, the later Pilcher gliders, sketched
in Figures 233 and 234, were very safe in calm weather. ..."
7. Kitecraft and Kite Tournaments by Charles M. Miller (1915)
"gliders. In group C is to be found the most profitable source of study for the
self-propelling model aeroplane. The glider has no motor and no propeller, ..."
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