Short of sprouting wings, piloting an 18-metre fibreglass glider is the closest Christopher Thorpe will get to an eagle in flight. It is a clear summer day in western Victoria as he prepares for ...

A TWO-TIME hand-gliding champion has died after a catastrophic paragliding crash in Brazil. Philip Haegler, 59, was seconds ...

The call of the sky is strong in Kitty Hawk. Not far from where the Wright brothers first flew, student Hannah Zobel glides over sand dunes after a lesson with Luke Robinson (running) of Kitty Hawk ...

Though Hang gliding has always been considered as a sport for the grown-up people there is quite a significant age range of participants in the World Championships of 2023 - the oldest pilot being 68 ...

Gliding, by almost any definition, is not a popular sport. However, it could serve as good proxy to illustrate a larger point: that China's rise is affecting even the most unsuspecting industries in ...

A champion hang glider was killed in a freak accident after colliding with a paraglider mid-air over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

"Flatties" might be more aptly nicknamed "fliers" for their ability to glide to safety should they lose their grip in tree canopies. Stephen P. Yanoviak Some tropical rainforest species spend their ...

They were three mates who, back in the 1960s, were noted for their water skiing acrobatics on the Clarence River at Grafton in New South Wales. Now 55 years on, the boat driver in one of those aerial ...

In a quirky twist, one user shared a screenshot of asking ChatGPT to help determine the species, and the AI suggested that ...

Forget bulls and bears: Call it a duck market. That might be going a bit far, but Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide, argues in a Monday note that the market's behavior right now is ...