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 ...
I picked up a 180 hp Piper Super Cub at the Aspen, Colorado, airport (KASE) and made a slight left turn to allow my friend Joe to pass me in his faster aircraft. As I climbed through about 300 feet, I ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Caprock Chronicles" is a series of short articles and essays that examine the life, people, events and historical places of our region's past. Paul Carlson, professor emeritus of ...
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 ...
It’s been almost a year since the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended for the second time that gliders be required to use identification transponders during flight so that other ...
HOFFMAN — The Army’s Special Forces, Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations soldiers have been tried, tested and trained at Camp Mackall for decades. But long before the first Green Beret was ...
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