Gliding News

Wingsuits How the Rocketman flies In this image from video released by organizers Webtel.mobi, Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy flies prior to ditching in the sea Wednesday Nov 25 2009 while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings.

A weekend of Northern California soaring has turned tragic for two pilots... one in a Schleicher sailplane and the other in a Piper PA-25 Towplane.

The FAA and NTSB are investigating why a Piper PA25 tow airplane and a Schleicher ASW 27 high-performance sailplane were involved in a collision over Middletown, Calif., that killed both pilots involved; there were no passengers.

Will Johnson has been fascinated with airplanes since he was a child. The 14-year-old Wytheville resident recently flew solo in an L23 Blanick glider.

Hannah Marklin of Parker, Colo., stands beside a U.S. Air Force Academy Aero Club Cessna before her orientation flight Nov.

" Dead zones ", massive Oceanic low-oxygen zones, near shore, are areas that have become so oxygen-starved that most animals flee or die.

ADVENTUROUS adults flew gliders for the first time during a special learning event.

Photo by Amy Paterson/New Jersey Herald Jim Angelou looks out into the sky while flying a 1968 232 Schweizer glider above Blairstown.

All Black captain Richie McCaw indulges in his other great love, gliding. Photo by New Zealand Herald.

Tailspin Tom offered us the opp to head up to CRQ and take a turn at a cherry 1968 Beech Debonair that has seen some tender loving care over the last 40 odd years.

Suneet Varma turned to Tchaikovsky's ballet for his Spring/Summer 2010 collection, reports SHALINI SHAH Photo: R.V. Moorthy GLIDING PINK An outfit from Suneet Varma's Spring/ Summer 2010 line Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake has influenced many across the spheres of literature, acrobatics, animation, music and, not in the least, ballet.

You'd think the tow rope would be a bit thicker. The thin white line snaking across the ground between the glider and the plane looks more like a flimsy bit of string than a robust cable.

I'm deeply confused by a Paul Krugman article in the October 22 New York Times. He argues that the Chinese are ruining the world economy, and our economy, by keeping their currency weak.

Many more planes than usual will take off and land on the grass strip at Epps Airpark north of Harvest this weekend, but the extra air traffic isn't likely to disturb the neighbors.

They say it takes a village to raise a child but the story in this case is that it took two villages: Hope and Salt Spring Island to raise an airplane.

The change of ownership at an FBO in Southern California led Wednesday to former tenants filing a formal complaint with the FAA against the airport and ultimately could form precedent regarding airports that attempt to limit access.

The U.S. Naval Academy's Summer Training Soaring Program introduced 150 midshipmen to flying this summer using gliders at the Mid-Atlantic Soaring Center Airport.

Glider pilots banned from Hemet-Ryan Airport filed a formal complaint Wednesday with the Federal Aviation Administration in hopes of regaining access and flying again.

Say it's your mom's 90th birthday. What would you get her for a present? How about a ticket to ride 5,000 feet above rugged terrain of Vermont in a high-performance sailplane? Sure, why not, thought Deb Dwyer of Montpelier, when she thought about how to make her mother's 90th extra special.

There's a special kind of pleasure that comes from being 3,000 feet in the air, riding on nothing but the wind.