Pesawat lebih-berat-dari-udara pertama yang diterbangkan di Eropa, ''Coachman Carrier'' [[Sir George Cayley]] ([[1853]]), merupakan sebuah glider murni. [[Otto Lilienthal]] dan [[Percy Pilcher]] adalah pioneer lainnya dalam pengembangan [[aviasi]] jenis ini.
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A glider was even built secretly by [[Prisoner of War|POWs]] as a potential escape method at [[Colditz Castle#The .22Colditz Cock.22 glider|Colditz Castle]] near the end of the war in [[1944]].
The Orbiter vehicles or [[space shuttle|"space shuttles"]], which glide to earth at the end of each [[spaceflight]], are also pure gliders.
