Hang Gliding News

The exact techniques migrating birds use to find their way across thousands of miles to exactly the same spots year after year are only partially understood.

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An 85-year-old grandmother with a taste for adventure celebrated her birthday with a paragliding trip over the coast of Lima.

The last thing Dr. Ralph Miller remembers was soaring for miles on his hang glider, descending nearly 2,000 feet from the mountain in Mexico where he had launched on a perfectly beautiful day.

The glider pilot who died when his aircraft crashed south of Blenheim was Michael Dekker, 55, from Blenheim.

Air tour operators and flight training schools say a no-fly zone established over much of Windward Oahu during President Barack Obama's upcoming visit will hurt their businesses.

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Friends have paid tribute to a youth counsellor and anti-violence worker killed during his second solo hang gliding flight.

Shocked witnesses were unable to revive a novice hang glider pilot after he lost control and crashed into a cliff at Karioitahi Beach, south west of Auckland on Friday.

A pilot of an experimental airplane is in a hospital after his aircraft hit a set of power lines.

Computer Users Group will NOT meet in December but a meeting will be scheduled for January.

Stop me if you've heard this one: Inventor father makes a pair of wax wings for his kid, reminds him not to fly too close to the sun.

December 3, 2009 - Yo Joe! It looks like some military guys are getting tired of parachuting, hang gliding and flapping their arms like constipated geese into the hot zones around the world, as one retired Swiss pilot is working on perfecting a jet-powered flight suit that'll turn an average aviator into the Rocketeer.

The sport of wingsuiting is nothing new. A combination of base jumping/skydiving and hang gliding, wingsuiters use a special jumpsuit to glide across the air much the way a bird soars in the sky.

A hang glider suffered a broken femur in an accident Sunday when he hit the ground hard in a Tres Pinos field, a Calfire captain said.

A hang gliding accident in the Henson Gap area along Walden's ridge has claimed the life of an Indiana man.

Citizen profile: Tom Hampton of San Clemente is on the long, hard road back from a paragliding accident two years ago.

The man, in his 20s, was helicoptered to St Marya TMs Hospital following the crash at around 4pm on Sunday.

Up in the air or down in the deep, breaking records is what the Piccard family has been good at for three generations.

The location near the village of Gorna Rositsa where two experienced Bulgarian hang gliders fell and died Saturday.