The Sugar and Squirrel Gliders are common species of gliding possum, found in the eucalypt forests of eastern Australia, while the Feathertail Glider is the smallest glider species.

The aeroclub of Rybnik is very successful in national and international glider aerobatic competitions: Jerzy Makula won the European Glider Aerobatic Championships two times and the World Glider Aerobatic Championships six times.

Battleground is a 1949 American war film that tells the story of a company in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division trying to cope with the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

A minor inaccuracy is that, at the time of the Battle of Bastogne, the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment did not have an Item Company.

The Gimli Glider is the nickname of an Air Canada aircraft that was involved in a notable aviation incident in July 1983.

On Thursday, 24 January, fin 604, the Boeing 767-200 better known as the Gimli Glider, will undertake its final voyage from Montreal to Mojave Airport ( MHV ) before it is retired to the desert.

Acrobatidae is a small family of gliding marsupials containing two genera, each with a single species, the Feathertail Glider ( Acrobates pygmaeus ) from Australia and Feather-tailed Possum ( Distoechurus pennatus ) from New Guinea.

Currently it is named Allstar PZL Glider Sp. z o. o.

The aircraft involved returns to service and is nicknamed the " Gimli Glider.

It is a very important habitat link for locally rare Platypus and the Yellow-belied Glider.

Gliding is a very deeply innate ability-the Glider elves of Blue Mountain are shown to glide while unconscious, sleeping, or having sex.

In South Africa, Touring Motor Glider ( TMG ) is an independent National Pilots License category under Recreation Aviation, Part 62, subpart 17.

In the large ' Glider Field ' alongside the leisure centre, there is a public Skatepark.

The Debert Airfield is now also the location of Royal Canadian Air Cadet Summer Glider Scholarship program for the Atlantic region.

The Glider Pilot badge is currently awarded to cadet instructor pilots at the USAF Academy glider flight training program, by permission of the Academy Superintendent and the National WW2 Glider Pilots ' Association.

Shawbury is home to the ' Assault Glider Trust ', building a non-flying replica Horsa glider for museum display.

The station is now home to 645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, who teach Air Cadets to fly The Grob 109B ' Vigilant ' Motor Glider and is currently joined by 635 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, who have been temporarily re-located from their former airfield.

The smallest gun found so far in Conway's Game of Life is the Gosper Glider Gun

* Glider Flash-the glider awarded as an honour to the King's Own Royal Border Regiment is worn on the sleeve of No. 1 and No. 2 dress.

Fractal Glider is the stage name of Paul McCosh, a psychedelic trance artist from Melbourne, Australia.

: The German " Glider King " was a the first person to make controlled untethered glides repeatedly, and the first to be photographed flying a heavier-than-air machine.

Glider pilots trained at South Plains flew these craft in combat during the Normandy Invasion, Operation Market-Garden, and also Operation Varsity, the airborne invasion of Germany.

Farthest north, the British 1st Airborne Division, supported by men of the Glider Pilot Regiment and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, landed at Arnhem to secure bridges across the Nederrijn.

The Gimli Glider was then scheduled ( but delayed ) to depart Tucson and make the final flight to the Mojave Airport ( KMHV ) for retirement.

He was an aviator of exceptional breadth of experience, from his quest to become the first person to achieve a solo balloon flight around the world ( finally succeeding on his sixth attempt, in 2002, becoming the first person to complete an uninterrupted and unrefueled solo circumnavigation of the world in any kind of aircraft ) to setting, with co-pilot Terry Delore, 10 of the 21 Glider Open records, including the first 2, 000 km Out-and-Return, the first 1, 500 km Triangle and the longest Straight Distance flights.

* July 23-Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 makes an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba.

A Glider Training Squadron was formed, and the first test-flights were conducted using British Aircraft Swallow light aircraft which had their propellors removed to simulate the flight characteristics of a glider ; they were towed by the Whitley bombers using tow-ropes of varying number and length for experimentation purposes.

CFB Comox is used by the Royal Canadian Air Cadets for glider and powered flight training, training Glider Pilots on Schweizer SGS 2-33A's and housing the cadets training on Cessna 172's respectively in the summer months.

: Glider ( sailplane ); built to get publicity by breaking British gliding records ( Two built ; plus parts for third, which were sold )

Enthusiasts within the British armed forces were inspired in the creation of airborne forces ( including the Parachute Regiment, Air Landing Regiments, and the Glider Pilot Regiment ) by the example of the German Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjäger, which had a major role in the invasions of Norway, and the Low Countries, particularly the attack on Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium, and a pivotal, but costly role in the invasion of Crete.

The division was also substantially reinforced by the addition of 1, 200 men of the Glider Pilot Regiment, providing Urquhart with the equivalent of two battalions of infantry for the operation.

Making a fighting withdrawal with the Germans of Kampfgruppe Krafft closely pursuing them, the units fell back across LZ ' L ', defended by the King's Own Scottish Borderers who were awaiting the arrival of the Glider borne elements of the Polish Parachute Brigade.

The Glider Pilots would organise the routes to the river and the whole operation would be covered by an intense artillery barrage from XXX Corps.

The BICh-11 by Cheranovsky in 1932 was competing with the Horten brothers H1 ( and Adolf Galland ) at the Ninth Glider Competitions in 1933, but did not demonstrate in the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin.

On December 22, 1944, through a party consisting of a major, a lieutenant, and two enlisted men under a flag of truce that entered the American lines southeast of Bastogne ( occupied by Company F, 2nd Battalion, 327th Glider Infantry ), General von Lüttwitz sent the following ultimatum to Gen. McAuliffe:

The official reply was typed and delivered by Colonel Joseph Harper, commanding the 327th Glider Infantry, to the German delegation.

The airport also served as a testing facility for several early U. S. sailplane designs, notably those by William Hawley Bowlus ( superintendent of construction on the Spirit of St. Louis ) who also operated the Bowlus Glider School at Lindbergh Field from 1929 – 1930.

Glider training was performed by the 848th School Squadron ( Special ), with overall training being under the 64th Two-Engine Flying Training Group.

A few weeks before the division was to participate in a combat jump over the Rhine it was reorganized, after a conference by the Department of War had decided that a more efficient composition for an airborne division was two Parachute Infantry Regiments and only a single Glider Infantry Regiment.

* 189th Glider Infantry Regiment ( disbanded 4 – 8 December 1943, replaced by 88GIR and 326GIR )

* 190th Glider Infantry Regiment ( disbanded 4 – 8 December 1943, replaced by 88GIR and 326GIR )

The division also gained its fourth Medal of Honor in the days following Operation Varsity, when Technical Sergeant Clinton M. Hedrick of the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment received the award posthumously after aiding in the capture of Lembeck Castle, which had been turned into a fortified position by the Germans.

Since the release of the single " Ding Dong / Glider " in late 2002, the promotional videos for Tokio songs are directed by Masahiro Matsuoka.

Not enough gliders were available to have both glider regiments take part in the landings, so the 326th Glider Infantry Regiment was relieved from assignment to the 82nd on February 4, 1943 and replaced by Gavin's 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment effective February 10, 1943.

The 17th Airborne Division gained its fourth Medal of Honor in the days following the operation, when Technical Sergeant Clinton M. Hedrick of the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment received the award posthumously after aiding in the capture of Lembeck Castle, which had been turned into a fortified position by the Germans.

Another historian argues that the gliders landing in daylight was a calamity, with the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment having two-thirds of their gliders hit by ground fire and suffering heavy casualties as they landed.

Glider assembly averaged about fifteen per day by early 1944, increasing to 50 per day by September 1944.

The design was influenced by the Parachutist Badge worn when the division was on jump status, as well as the Glider Badge worn by glider units during World War II.

The assault — led by 18 tanks carrying a battalion of infantry — pierced the lines of the 327th's 3rd Battalion ( officially, the 1st Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry ), and advanced as far as the battalion command post at Hemroulle.