The author details their experience obtaining a glider rating, emphasizing the unique skills and intimate pilot-aircraft-environment relationship involved in glider flying. Glider flying is ...

Of all his expertise, pilot Chesley Sullenberger’s training in flight without engines was likely a key component in his ability to save all 155 people on board US Airways Flight 1459, a local glider ...

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 ...

Gliding in the skies is a form of freedom and responsibility taken on by a group of teenagers in the Columbia Gorge who came together through the Hood River Soaring club. Look, in the sky: it’s a bird ...

Penglais pupil Justin Bennett achieves his first solo glider flight at London Gliding Club, thanks to community support and ...

About Face. Early in 1941, Secretary Stimson said: “Flight training in gliders or sailplanes as a preliminary step in power-plane training is of doubtful value, and it is believed the cost is not ...

BARRINGTON — Civil Air Patrol Cadet Senior Master Sergeant Nils Jobe, of Barrington, has completed glider flight training at the historic Hartness State Airport in Springfield, Vt. CAP's Northeast ...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Civil Air Patrol Cadet Cadet Senior Master Sergeant Nils Jobe of Barrington, NH, has completed glider flight training at the historic Hartness State Airport in Springfield, Vt.

He was participating in a training session with U.S. Hang-Gliding Inc., which is a New York-based company training in central Florida for the winter season. Detectives with the Bureau of Special ...