Fed Ex pilot Gordon Boettger said he has flown east across the country and looked out the window of the Boeing 777 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Airbus Perlan 2 glider broke the world altitude record for glider flight, reaching 52,172 feet. The record was achieved utilizing mountain waves and a high-altitude polar vortex near El Calafate, ...

Two continental flight records are broken in Dodge City, Kansas. Two Nevada pilots took a glider from Minden, Nevada, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman in her 50s was taking an "air experience" flight along with an instructor when they crashed during the take-off ...

WASHINGTON – Jim Payne is preparing to fly higher than anyone has ever managed with wings, where the wispy atmosphere no longer holds color, but might just support a plane. Payne is the chief pilot of ...