GLIDER

Glider

A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the sport of gliding. It has rigid wings and an undercarriage. Some gliders, known as motor gliders, are also used for gliding and soaring, but have engines which can be used for extending a flight and, for some types, for take-off. Aircraft such as hang gliders and paragliders are foot-launched and so are described in separate articles, though their differences from sailplanes are covered below. Glider aircraft that are used for purposes other than recreation, for example for military purposes, do not soar.

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glider

Noun

  1. Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
  2. A pilot of glider aircraft.
  3. Anything that glides, especially an animal or aircraft.
  4. In the cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
  5. A kind of garden swing.


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