User blog comment:Kalitu/Racial abilities-perks?/@comment-4547854-20130719043530/@comment-24205786-20130719050400

But the problem with that is, is that people can't get a glider or restructure one. The best scientific minds in Misthalin are completely stumped at figuring out gliders and have to rely on the gnomes as a source of knowledge, who so far have only said who created them. I'll quote a past comment of mine for this -

"(I'm just gonna insert this here because I see it so often; your human did not watch and study the gnomes or the dwarves or any other race and figure out their design and manufacture. The best human minds in Gielinor are PUZZLED about these things and can only make rough models from what little scrap of the item they can see. If a team of brilliant scholars, researchers, and scientists can't figure these things out, how did your single character?"

Humans aren't as smart as gnomes. The gnomes have millenia on them because they were hidden away during the God Wars. I should add, that gliders cannot be weaponized. There isn't a way since you need to keep both hands on the bar (or you'll slip and fall) and the weight would be too much for the aircraft to take, since it glides.