Becoming proficient in hang gliding doesn't happen overnight. In the beginning, you might feel like a clumsy penguin—waddling ...

"You can't be what you can't see" is the saying Jenny Thompson likes to use when it comes to encouraging more women to take to the skies. The 66-year-old has been gliding for 50 years in a sport ...

Arthur Simoneau was found near the doorway of his Topanga home, apparently trying to defend it from the Palisades fire.

“He was a denizen of Topanga. He fit in good,” said Malury Silberman, a friend who met him through the Sylmar Hang Gliding Assn. “Kind of a grown-up hippie — never a harsh word out of the guy.