The US military has built and tested a range of ultra-lightweight gliders made of plywood. California-based Logistic Gliders says it would be able to move goods up to 70 miles away. They cost between $4,500 to $11,000 a unit, depending upon which parachute is used, and have a plywood fuselage strengthened in key areas by minimal amounts of aluminium. California-based Logistic Gliders are working under contract for The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Marine Corps Warfighting LaboratoryGPS allows the gliders to navigate autonomously and their wings fold out and in automatically. Logistic Gliders explains: 'Our goal was to identify less expensive means of aviation logistic support.

Source: Daily Mail April 04, 2019 15:56 UTC