On a temperate day, with bellies full of burgers from the summer cookout, members of the Refugio Soaring Circle watched a Schweizer SGS 2-33 glider plane land gracefully, and silently, on the grass ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Just barely over five percent of pilots worldwide are women. That’s according to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots, but you wouldn’t know that if you were ...

Dr. Galo Grijalva secures Fred Rowland before a glider ride at Aero Soaring Club located at Dart Field, Mayville, New York. Photos by Beverly Kehe-Rowland With the unseasonably warm temperatures we’ve ...

MONTABAUR, Germany — Andreas Lubitz never appeared anything but thrilled to have landed a pilot’s job with Germanwings, according to those who helped him learn to fly as a teenager in this town in the ...

The wing runner sprints alongside a small motor-less glider as a tow plane drags it down a runway and up into the brilliant blue sky. At 3,000 feet the towrope is cut. The aerodynamic glider is on its ...