During its harried 18-month career the Army Air Forces glider program has found the winds of public and official esteem as tricky as the thermal air currents over a mountain peak. Like many another ...

Gliding takes on a different mentality in the United States vs. Europe, Kujat said. “The European model is they’re going to do everything to protect the pilot from himself. In America, we do just ...

You see a plane, you expect to hear an engine. But gliders are a different breed of aircraft, representing flight in its purest form. They are frankly a testament to just how far clever engineering ...

TOM JOHNS, 64, is the first human to launch from atop Blanchard Mountain south of Bellingham at the site that is now called Samish Overlook. It was spring 1988, and Johns and his hang-gliding buddy ...

Silent Arrow gets Air Force contract to develop new line of cargo-delivery gliders Irvine-based Silent Arrow, one of a growing number of OC-based drone makers, has received a $750,000 U.S. Air Force ...