It makes sense, when floating around Steptoe Butte, that Icarus would have wanted to defy gravity, impugn the gods and challenge the sun to soar closer to the ionosphere. Maybe he wanted to find the ...

I’ve mentioned a couple of times lately that an airplane with a control-lable-pitch propeller will glide farther with the propeller in coarse pitch than in fine pitch. These terms coarse and fine aren ...

LAKE PEPIN (WCCO)-- There's no denying the beauty that lines the shores of Lake Pepin. However, some of its most majestic sights can only be seen from a distance. "You can't get a better backdrop than ...

A hang-gliding instructor failed to properly attach a harness to the glider. An American tourist in Switzerland was forced to hang on for his life when his instructor didn't properly attach his ...

Chris Gursky, a Florida man vacationing in Europe, spoke to Fox News on Tuesday afternoon about his terrifying hang-gliding incident: hanging onto a glider with his bare hands for almost four minutes, ...

An 81-year-old pilot has died in a crash at the Scottish Gliding Centre in Kinross. Emergency services were called to the airfield in Portmoak at about 13:40, where the man was pronounced dead at the ...

Established in 1950 as part of Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision to democratise aviation, the HGC was designed to give ordinary ...

Temporary airspace restrictions have been imposed around the Scottish Gliding Centre in Kinross after an 81-year-old pilot ...