Record-setting Minden glider pilot Gordon Boettger and co-pilot Bruce Campbell completed the longest distance glider flight in the world early Monday morning. While a technicality will keep it from ...

Fred Fehsenfeld, a Purdue mechanical engineering alumnus, stands near Sky Dancer, a Pipistrel Sinus glider he gifted to Purdue. The gift effectively ushers in a new era of glider instruction and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Eastern Airlines flight from Shanghai to Jinan, China, was delayed after a sugar glider that was smuggled onto the flight by ...

Other people’s vacation videos can be painfully dull. Chris Gursky’s is painfully terrifying – best watched while peeking through your fingers. Gursky, an American, was on his first day of a vacation ...

Airbus completed a test flight of a glider set to eventually travel to the edge of space, in a pioneering step into the stratosphere. The Perlan 2's flight, from an airstrip in the western US state of ...

Airbus' Perlan 2 glider is continuing to push the limits of engineless flight, hitting a succession of record altitudes throughout the last week, culminating in a unprecedented 76,000-ft (23,000-m) ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. In a grassy field at the north end of Boulder Municipal Airport, I find Alfonso Ossorio sitting atop a picnic ...

Civil Air Patrol Cadet 2nd Lt. Parker Lewis, a rising home-schooled 10th grader from Allen County, completed his first solo glider flight at the Southeast Region Glider Flight Academy in Tullahoma, ...