Fourteen elite glider pilots have landed in a north-west Victorian town to race in the World Sailplane Grand Prix Racing Series.

The team hopes NASA will fund a 'catch a ride' mission of the sailplane on another spacecraft headed to Mars. The planes can be carried in CubeSats – tiny satellites not much larger than a phone ...

Fire officials did not have Williams’ age. His friends said he is in his early 50s. Three weeks ago Williams flew 130 miles in the sailplane from Ellenville, N.Y., to Jewett City, Jester said.

They invite adult and child passengers to learn glider and sailplane flying firsthand at about $30 to $50 per ride. Pilot training is also available. Contact them at soarkansas.org.

A glider, often referred to as a sailplane, is an aircraft designed to fly without an engine. The glider, or sailplane, relies only on air currents to stay up and soar.

Vintage & Classic Sailplane Regatta September 2-5, Mountain Valley Airport (L94), Tehachapi, California Mountain Valley is essentially all about soaring. Powered aircraft can fly in as well, and ...

Observing the regatta is open to the public without charge. The Schweizer SGS 1-26 sailplane is a single-seat glider built by Schweizer Aircraft of Elmira, N.Y. from 1954 until 1979.

If all goes according to plan, the glider will be crated and shipped by boat to South America, where, after a handful of test flights, it will finally attempt to reach 90,000 feet sometime this ...

Riding on the colossal stratospheric air waves generated over mountains, the team plans to fly their craft to more than 90,000 ft (27,000 m), which will shatter their own existing glider altitude ...

Anyone who wants to learn to fly a glider should contact a nearby glider club, which can be found on the SSA website, www.SSA.org. Sailplane lessons cost around $2,000, Vassel said.

Thomas Alexander Cates Jr. celebrated his 100th birthday last year by co-piloting a racing glider sailplane and soaring across Midlothian skies. A month later, while visiting an air show in Bryan ...