The glider is a simple design built from foam board ... and can be used with even quite unusual aircraft. Video after the break.

The original glider weighed 2kg, and with the upgrades to the design, the Flying Wing weighs 3.5kg, with speed capabilities of around 45mph. To save weight, neither plane has landing or take off ...

Printing a glider is at least as complex as a printing an RC plane, it's just the design aspects that differ. Of course, gliders have much longer wings than regular planes, so that may add ...

In a modern plane the elevator is typically located in the tail section. With an earlier glider, banking a turn would sometimes cause the aircraft to spin out of control. To prevent this ...

By the third glider they built, they had solved most of these problems of steering and stability. To make a self-powered airplane ... in our calculations and the design of the first machine ...