Glider

Glider experience offers a chance to be a beginner again, drinking from a fire hose.

Here’s how to stand out in the pool of applicants in the aviation industry.

Is there such a thing when you want to learn to fly? It depends.

A celebration of basic flight

Perlan 2, the record-setting, high-altitude glider, performed its first flight demo on Tuesday.

Ever since its inception in 1987, the fly-in community of Kelly Airpark (CO15) near Elbert, Colorado, has had a strong focus on gliders and other general aviation traffic. As the community has evolved over the years, so has its most important asset—its hard-surface runway.  Recently, the airpark’s board of directors determined that the 3,800-foot-long paved […]

Glider training can sharpen your stick and rudder skills and give you Zen-like experiences, according to this pilot.

Training beyond the private certificate can open up new destinations.

Location and a passionate batch of enthusiasts keep this Florida spot hopping all year round.

Innovative Brazilian aeronautical engineer Paulo Iscold has accomplished another impressive feat, this time taking a revolutionary sailplane into the skies. Iscold has for the past few years been working on Nixus, a glider that, he claims, has the second highest aspect ratio of any sailplane at 53.3 to 1 (the Concordia Superseigler’s aspect ratio is […]