The author details their experience obtaining a glider rating, emphasizing the unique skills and intimate pilot-aircraft-environment relationship involved in glider flying. Glider flying is ...

FAT gliders can’t glide. That’s the blunt message for 10 sugar gliders enrolled in a bootcamp designed to get them fit for a return to the wild. Volunteers from the Carindale-based environment group ...

An electric-powered sailplane designed to ease challenges of training glider pilots has completed its experimental test phase and is being prepared for industrialization under a European-funded ...

Gliding in the skies is a form of freedom and responsibility taken on by a group of teenagers in the Columbia Gorge who came together through the Hood River Soaring club. Look, in the sky: it’s a bird ...

The result of an innovative partnership launched at the end of 2014, involving the European Gliding Development Association (AEDEVV), Dassault Aviation and the engineering schools of the ISAE Group, ...

Years before Marines first waged large-scale combat exercises on the sprawling grounds of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, the area served as a training base for U.S.

In the early years of World War II, a handful of remote airstrips in the Mojave Desert were transformed into training facilities for America’s first military stealth aircraft. The new airfields at ...

HOFFMAN — The Army’s Special Forces, Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations soldiers have been tried, tested and trained at Camp Mackall for decades. But long before the first Green Beret was ...

BOKARO: The state civil aviation department has a given green signal to set up a glider training institute here after assessing the site viability at the Bokaro airport, district MLA Biranchi Narayan ...

Stunning color photos from the Second World War capture US Marines training to fly in lightweight gliders designed to help them gain the upper hand in the brutal Pacific War - but which were never ...