Darla Beam is a Conscious Business and Leadership Coach who empowers individuals to elevate their leadership and transform their lives. Recently, I found myself staring at a small, open-air aircraft ...

It was my first day of hang-gliding lessons, and already I felt like a bird. A big, stupid, flightless bird. I was running around in a damp field, harnessed into a huge set of wings, sweating like mad ...

Ken de Russy has at least two heroes in this world. One is his brother Larry, who introduced him to the sport of hang gliding back in 1973. The second is Australian designer Richard Dickenson, the ...

While most people peg him as an adrenalin junkie, hang gliding instructor Zac Majors opts for a more sophisticated, French traditional term. “I prefer to call myself an endorphin connoisseur,” said ...

On a family beach trip in the summer of 1976, Edie Holsopple and her sister took hang-gliding lessons at Jockey’s Ridge State Park and a couple of flights that lasted only a few seconds apiece but ...

NEWPORT BEACH — With aircraft made of little more than bamboo and plastic sheets, a ragtag group of aerial adventurers threw themselves off a hilltop here on May 23, 1971, launching what became known ...