Foot-launched sailplanes have been around for a while, but this video of a guy flying one off a cliff caught our eye. On a windy mountainside, you can see him hovering in place against the wind before ...

In a glider, there is no motor, no vibration, no sound. “You become a bird,” said pilot Larry Tuohino. “I have flown with flocks of sea gulls, pelicans, hawks. They look at me in the cockpit, and we ...

Co-pilots David Jansen and Grant Anderson flew a sailplane 787 miles without the help of an engine A pair of pilots made history last month when they traveled 10 hours and 787 miles in a sailplane, an ...

Have you ever thought about flying in a glider? Watch one silently overhead and it seems surreal, so free, so, well, simple. It looks like anyone could do it. "Anyone can, with a little bit of ...

A Cal Poly aerospace engineering professor and a team of more than a dozen students worked together to create a sailplane for a record-breaking pilot. The plane was named “Nixus.” Professor Paulo ...

High-altitude aerospace research nonprofit Perlan Project plans this year to take another shot at flying its Perlan 2 glider to a record 90,000ft, after which it intends to terminate that flight-test ...

If you’ve exhausted your list of electronics projects over the past several weeks of trying to stay at home, it might be time to take a break from all of that and do something off the wall.

MONTABAUR, Germany — Andreas Lubitz never appeared anything but thrilled to have landed a pilot’s job with Germanwings, according to those who helped him learn to fly as a teenager in this town in the ...

Two metro pilots are still flying high after beating out eight contenders last week to claim a national soaring championship. Richard Andrews, 70, of Hastings and Barry Jaeger, 62, of Inver Grove ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- A sailplane once collecting dust has been restored to its original condition by area soaring enthusiasts and is once again in the skies over Siouxland. The sleek plane was lovingly ...