Remember the balsa wood gliders that used to be so popular ... You’d slide the wings through a slit in the fuselage and fire it off. According to the picture on the package, you could control ...

Just a few strips of balsa wood fitted together to form a fuselage, wings ... Sold by the millions, these ready-to-fly gliders and rubber-band-powered airplanes have captured the imaginations ...

for a balsa wood glider launched from our roof. His standard is a swept-wing design, but we’re expecting that his straight wing, either the high or low version, will make the farthest ...

The unique tree started me thinking about those balsa wood airplane gliders kids played with for decades as early as the 1930s and even today. Balsa is extremely lightweight and the tree grows up ...