He’s Steve Leonard, a sailplane pilot. He’s been there and back again. Sailplanes look like airplanes. They don’t have engines. A tow plane pulls sailplanes into the air with a cable. A gifted pilot ...

Windy City Soaring Association is hosting the first sailplane regatta in the greater Chicago area in more than 20 years. A sailplane, also known as a glider plane is an aircraft with no engine. A ...

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: ...

Fourteen elite glider pilots have landed in a north-west Victorian town to race in the World Sailplane Grand Prix Racing Series. Glider pilots race in grand prix event in Victoria's west Former RAAF ...

Advances in laminar-flow airfoils and composites have sparked a renaissance in sailplane design. And no company seems to have exploited these two technologies more adeptly than Windward Performance in ...

On Thursday evenings and weekends, if you look at the sky over Middlefield in Geauga County, you may spot a sleek, silent aircraft soaring like a bird. It is not an airplane because it has no motor; ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — A local nonprofit is bringing the world of flying to those with disabilities. On Tuesday, UA adaptive athletes were given the opportunity to get behind the pilot’s seat and have ...

Building on its autonomous flight ambitions, Microsoft has tested a motor-less glider that borrows a simple technique from birds and captures invisible columns of rising hot air, called thermals, to ...

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 ...