Glider flying offers airplane pilots a fresh, challenging, and "purer" experience, emphasizing enhanced stick and rudder skills, new aerodynamic concepts, and a social community. Adding a private ...

Glider flying (soaring) is presented as an accessible and cost-effective aviation option, not requiring an FAA medical certificate, with skills transferable to other types of flying. Seminole-Lake ...

Motivated to improve fundamental flying skills and overcome doubts about engine-out landings, the author embarked on glider training, initially struggling with the unique demands, especially landings, ...

Aviation Supplies and Academics (ASA) announced that its new editions of the Glider Flying Handbook and Balloon Flying Handbook have been updated to conform with modern standards and practices for ...

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 ...

Co-pilots David Jansen and Grant Anderson flew a sailplane 787 miles without the help of an engine Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016.

The phrase is often used by people who soar high in the sky in non-motorized lightweight aircraft. These adventurists hang gliders and paragliders, known as pilots, challenge gravity from a 600 feet ...