Unpowered aircraft

Usage examples of gliders.

He had practiced enough in boyhood, in the tiny gliders levitated by small matrixes and soaring on the air currents around the Lake of Hali, to be aware of the elementary principles of heavier-than-air flight, but it was incredible to him that a matrix circle, a group of close-linked telepath minds, could charge a battery strongly enough to power such enormous turbines.

Donal to make up a packet of the chemicals which could be carried back on the gliders, and Rosaura drew Allart aside.

Together they flew along the long valleys in their gliders, soaring from peak to peak, hiding beneath the crags from the summer storms, or lay side by side in the hidden canyons, hour after hour, watching clouds move across the sky, and turning from the sky to the green earth and to one another.

Them and their wooden gliders that travel a hundred feet and then have to land again.

What a surprise it must have been, when one of those wooden gliders came sailing past, one day.

We admire your science and efforts as represented by your roads, houses, gliders, ships, motor and clothing.

From his high vantage he could see the other aerial traffic of the valley: a few hot-air balloon-trains lofting to cross the eastern barrier on the way to Rawliston, dozens of other gliders patrolling the slopes or carrying urgent messages and light freight from one town to another.

As he got closer Stone figured out that they were dismantled gliders, their spars separated and their fabric folded up.

Eleven gliders were already in the air, circling up on the thin thermal above the nearest buildings.

And in time the wooden Yaran buildings began to thin out and the two of them emerged onto the grassy field with its towering wooden slide, like a ski-jump, only much taller, up to which the gliders were winched, and down which they were started.

The gliders arrived in kit form but they were quickly assembled by the technicians and made ready for operation.

Then the 10 gliders rose up and flew at low altitude eastward toward the other side of the planet.

At some distance from the ship were the 10 gliders which had brought Rhodan and his group here from the base.

He took a few steps toward the gliders and then stopped again, undecided.

The men had climbed on board the gliders again and were waiting for their orders.