- male
- Engine controls - Hang gliders are controlled by simply shifting the pilot's weight. But a powered harness must have engine controls and the pilot...
- male, deceased (1857)
- Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (December 27, 1773 - December 15, 1857) was a prolific English engineer from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in...
- male
- Alan Derek Piggott MBE is one of Britain's leading glider pilots and instructors. His flying career has been long and varied. He first flew in an...
- male, 84 years old (Pasadena, California, United States)
- Paul B. MacCready, Jr. (born September 25, 1925 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American aeronautical engineer. He is the founder of AeroVironment...
- female, deceased (1979)
- Hanna Reitsch was a famous German test pilot. Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia. She was the daughter of an ophthalmologist and was in...
- male, deceased (1899)
- Percy Sinclair Pilcher (January 1866 - 2 October, 1899) was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who, in one of the big "what if" events of...
- male
- Karl H. Striedieck II (born April 7, 1937 Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a world record setting glider pilot and a member of the U.S. Soaring Hall of...
- male
- John Calhoun is an Apple Macintosh software developer. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he developed a series of shareware games (Glider, Glypha,...
- male, deceased (887)
- 'Abbas Ibn Firnas, or 'Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas was a Berber polymath: a chemist, humanitarian, inventor, musician, physician, poet, and...
- male, deceased (1872)
- Jean-Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany, who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856. A sailor...
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