NORTH ADAMS — A plane rumbled down the runway at Harriman-and-West Airport midday Thursday, but there’s was a catch. A rope stretched behind the plane to a glider that it tugged down the runway and ...

View from the glider cockpit while being towed aloft. Photo by David Freeze While many of us are intrigued by the opportunity to fly, the process is usually more of a time or financial commitment than ...

The article promotes glider flying as a rewarding activity, suggesting introductory flights or attending soaring events to overcome apprehension. It lists several upcoming glider events across the US: ...

Although zero-emission air travel may sound like a thing of the future, gliders have a long history, which can be traced back to the birth of aeronautics. Before the Wright brothers famously outfitted ...

A glider named Tweety Bird soars over Reno County farm fields near Sunflower Glider Port in 2015. Travis Heying The Wichita Eagle Some of the country’s largest gliders will compete in the Kansas ...

A woman in her 50s was taking an "air experience" flight along with an instructor when they crashed during the take-off ...

Fed Ex pilot Gordon Boettger said he has flown east across the country and looked out the window of the Boeing 777 and ...

Three people died in a glider crash on Sterling Mountain in Vermont's Green Mountains on Wednesday afternoon. Further details will be made public in coming days and weeks. In essence, a glider is an ...