"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 ...

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

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

Japan's Defense Ministry has tested a new missile in the United States. The Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile is being ...

“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.