Record-setting Minden glider pilot Gordon Boettger and co-pilot Bruce Campbell completed the longest distance glider flight in the world early Monday morning. While a technicality will keep it from ...

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 ...

The pressurized, high-altitude Perlan 2 glider is expected to reach a record-breaking altitude of 90,000 feet during the upcoming flight test campaign. The Perlan 2 glider has broken its own world ...

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 ...

Airbus completed a test flight of a glider set to eventually travel to the edge of space, in a pioneering step into the stratosphere. The Perlan 2's flight, from an airstrip in the western US state of ...

YODER, Kan. (KWCH) - A central Kansas man took the ride of his life Friday, an unforgettable moment that could be his last flight. The Kansas Soaring Association is hosting the 2022 Standard and ...

ARLINGTON -- A Seattle glider pilot was found dead near Wheeler Mountain Friday morning after a mid-air collision with another glider. The 40-year-old, whose name was not released because family ...

A tourist trying out hang-gliding in Switzerland didn't get to enjoy the view over the Alps. He was too busy trying to stay alive, after he realized nothing was tethering him to the aircraft. The ...