A century after the Wright Brothers first took to the skies, the world of flight is pushing to new depths. Researchers are perfecting innovative gliders that can swoop and soar on journeys covering ...

HORROR footage shows the moment a hang glider crashed into a paraglider mid-air – causing its pilot to plunge to his death.

Record-setting Minden glider pilot Gordon Boettger and co-pilot Bruce Campbell completed the longest distance glider flight in the world early Monday morning. While a technicality will keep it from ...

Discover the Regent Sea Glider, an advanced electric ground-effect vehicle that redefines marine transport. Watch as this innovative prototype demonstrates wing-in-ground effect flight, gliding ...

A glider pulled into the air by human strength? Florian Lipowitz and the Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe team made history by ...

The Airbus Perlan Mission 2, a project that aims to take a glider to the very edge of space next year to gain scientific insight into the Earth’s upper atmosphere and perhaps lay the groundwork for ...

Fred Fehsenfeld, a Purdue mechanical engineering alumnus, stands near Sky Dancer, a Pipistrel Sinus glider he gifted to Purdue. The gift effectively ushers in a new era of glider instruction and ...

WASHINGTON – Jim Payne is preparing to fly higher than anyone has ever managed with wings, where the wispy atmosphere no longer holds color, but might just support a plane. Payne is the chief pilot of ...

Red Bull Racing Australia driver, Craig Lowndes, and world-record holding hang-glider Jonny Durand during a flight over Townsville, Australia, on July 3, 2014. A daring hang glider known for his ...

Nearly a decade after first taking to the sky in his take on the glider from “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,” Kazuhiko ...

Flying in a glider plane has been on Helen Davis’ bucket list for many years. “I don’t know why,” Davis said. “It’s one of those things. Just to see the world.” On Thursday morning, a little over a ...

Capt. John Lawrence of Tolland, a glider pilot, instructor and a Civil Air Patrol member at the 169th Composite Squadron in Manchester, this summer instituted orientation flights for cadets in a ...