What is a glider?
Q: What is a glider?
A: A glider is an aircraft that does not have a motor and is controlled by a pilot using a control-stick.
Q: How many people can some gliders carry?
A: Some gliders can carry only one person, while others can carry two.
Q: How are gliders with two seats controlled?
A: In gliders with two seats, each pilot has a control-stick to control the aircraft.
Q: What are sailplanes?
A: Sailplanes are gliders with long wings that lose height slowly.
Q: What is soaring?
A: Soaring is when the pilot of a glider makes it climb by flying to places where the air is going up faster than the glider is going down.
Q: How do gliders get into the air?
A: Gliders cannot get into the air by themselves. They are pulled into the air by an aircraft with a motor or by a motor on the ground.
Q: What are the other two types of gliders?
A: The other two types of gliders are hang-gliders and paragliders. Hang-gliders have frames to give the wings their shape but do not have seats or control-sticks, while the wings of paragliders are like parachutes and do not have frames to give them their shape.
