After early competition struggles due to poor weather, Sylvia Grandstaff formed an international team to navigate the FAI Women’s World Gliding Championships in a team-oriented European competitive ...

Commercial pilot Tom Beltz considers gliders real flying. Beltz, one of three pilots that guide a US Airways 330-seat Airbus across the Atlantic Ocean from Philadelphia, finds today's highly ...

After a successful maiden voyage last year, the Perlan 2 Glider is ready to be put to the test in another series of high-altitude flights. Starting in August 2016, the unpowered glider will travel to ...

In a glider, there is no motor, no vibration, no sound. “You become a bird,” said pilot Larry Tuohino. “I have flown with flocks of sea gulls, pelicans, hawks. They look at me in the cockpit, and we ...

When i left off last month, my wife Dawn and I were crewing for our good friend Sylvia Grandstaff as she competed in the 13th FAI Women's World Gliding Championships (WWGC) in Zbraslavice, Czech ...

It's a beautiful afternoon in late July, and the smell of freshly cut grass wafts across the airfield. White puffy clouds scud across the sky, sending shadows racing across rolling fields of corn and ...