Although zero-emission air travel may sound like a thing of the future, gliders have a long history, which can be traced back to the birth of aeronautics. Before the Wright brothers famously outfitted ...

You see a plane, you expect to hear an engine. But gliders are a different breed of aircraft, representing flight in its purest form. They are frankly a testament to just how far clever engineering ...

Gliding enthusiasts from all over the country and beyond will descend on Harris Hill in Big Flats in early July for the return of the International Vintage Sailplane Meet. The event will feature at ...

When the famed pilot Charles Lindbergh launched a motorless sailplane from Mount Soledad in 1930 and headed north above the coast, he was the first person to realize the cliffs at Torrey Pines ...

A writer who swore she'd never hang glide discovers how exhilarating a tandem flight at Lookout Mountain Flight Park can be ...

Advances in laminar-flow airfoils and composites have sparked a renaissance in sailplane design. And no company seems to have exploited these two technologies more adeptly than Windward Performance in ...

Model airplanes, with their minuscule plastic pieces and wings cemented in place by tubes of aromatic glue, were Dick Butler's childhood passion. As an adult, Butler still likes to assemble planes, ...

Lift. For a sailplane pilot it means the difference between a nice relaxing flight, or searching for an open area to land. Finding lift isn’t always easy though. This is especially true when the ...

The emergency landing happened in a cornfield in DeKalb County.