ABOVE: The Foundation operates two aircraft, a MDM-1 Fox two-seater and a SZD-59 Acro high-performance single-seater ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early years of World War II, a handful of remote airstrips in the Mojave Desert were transformed into training facilities for America’s first military stealth aircraft. The new airfields at ...

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 ...

An electric-powered sailplane designed to ease challenges of training glider pilots has completed its experimental test phase and is being prepared for industrialization under a European-funded ...

“I mean, what kid doesn’t want to get in a plane and fly?” he said. "I happened to see the sign out by the road that said 'learn to fly,' and that’s when I stopped in.” The program, offered through ...