A century after the Wright Brothers first took to the skies, the world of flight is pushing to new depths. Researchers are perfecting innovative gliders that can swoop and soar on journeys covering ...

The Airbus Perlan Mission 2, a project that aims to take a glider to the very edge of space next year to gain scientific insight into the Earth’s upper atmosphere and perhaps lay the groundwork for ...

He took inspiration from German engineer Otto Lilienthal, who had come up with nearly 20 models for gliders—fixed-wing aircraft that stay aloft with the help of rising currents of air, similar to ...

Fred Fehsenfeld, a Purdue mechanical engineering alumnus, stands near Sky Dancer, a Pipistrel Sinus glider he gifted to Purdue. The gift effectively ushers in a new era of glider instruction and ...

Flying in a glider plane has been on Helen Davis’ bucket list for many years. “I don’t know why,” Davis said. “It’s one of those things. Just to see the world.” On Thursday morning, a little over a ...

OROVILLE — A group of retired pilots will offer glider rides and glider flight instructions at the Oroville Municipal Airport starting today. The pilots pulled the glider out of the hangar with the ...

In an ambitious attempt to break every wing-borne sustained flight height record for a manned aircraft, the Perlan ll project intends to construct and fly a glider higher than any sailplane has gone ...

Capt. John Lawrence of Tolland, a glider pilot, instructor and a Civil Air Patrol member at the 169th Composite Squadron in Manchester, this summer instituted orientation flights for cadets in a ...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. Historian Darrell Collins stood next to the aging replica of the Wright glider, put his hand on a strut and recounted how the mastery of manned flight actually happened a year ...