During its harried 18-month career the Army Air Forces glider program has found the winds of public and official esteem as tricky as the thermal air currents over a mountain peak. Like many another ...

Gliders are airplanes heavier than air that can be kept in flight without an engine. How can you fly without an engine? That is what is explained in this video in addition to several curiosities about ...

Gliding takes on a different mentality in the United States vs. Europe, Kujat said. “The European model is they’re going to do everything to protect the pilot from himself. In America, we do just ...

Silent Arrow gets Air Force contract to develop new line of cargo-delivery gliders Irvine-based Silent Arrow, one of a growing number of OC-based drone makers, has received a $750,000 U.S. Air Force ...

A woman in her 50s was taking an "air experience" flight along with an instructor when they crashed during the take-off ...

ARLINGTON -- A Seattle glider pilot was found dead near Wheeler Mountain Friday morning after a mid-air collision with another glider. The 40-year-old, whose name was not released because family ...

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A former Durango man who died this week in a motorized glider plane crash near Telluride was remembered as a fine woodworker as well as a longtime pilot. Robert B. Saunders, 64, known to some as ...

WAIALUA, Hawaii (KITV4) - An aircraft from Paradise Air crashed down Saturday morning near Kaena Point on Oahu, killing both the pilot and a passenger. The deadly crash closed the road to Kaena Point ...