A paraglider in China has survived an unexpected climb to 28,208 feet in the air without oxygen after being caught in a powerful updraft, according to an account told to Chinese Central Television ...

A 55-year-old Chinese man was accidentally swept more than 28,000 feet over Northwest China while testing a paraglider harness. A powerful updraft of wind lifted him far above the tallest ...

Last week, a strong updraft dragged a Chinese paraglider to 8,600m. He barely survived. The aviation authority has banned him from flying for six months.

At one and a half kilometers tall and 280 meters wide, these massive solar updraft towers could potentially produce 400MW of energy each – enough to power Windhoek, the nation’s capital.

An updraft flung her roughly 33,000 feet (10,000 m) into the sky in 2007. The summit of Mount Everest, the highest point above sea level on earth, is 29,029 feet (8,848 m) above sea level.

With the new record hailstone being even larger than a softball at 4.83" in diameter, it's likely the storm updraft that produced this hail was moving around 110 mph, or 9,680 feet per minute!

When is tornado season? Tornadoes can happen anywhere, at any time, although there are peak months in different regions. About 70% of tornadoes occur from March to June.. The central U.S., for ...

As far as basic specs go, the Tornado Updraft 12 is 8.6 inches long (218 mm), weighs just 19 grams, can be controlled up to a distance of 240 ft (73 m), and has a top flight speed of 20 mph (32 km/h).

Chinese paraglider Peng Yujiang is lucky to be back on the ground after surviving a powerful updraft that suddenly lifted him into the upper atmosphere above the Qilian Mountains in China’s ...

Updraft, the financial habit-forming platform, and HomeServe, the international home repairs and improvements business, have announced a strategic partnership "to help consumers manage their ...

A record-breaking, triple-digit wind gust roared through part of Texas on Tuesday, but it wasn’t from a tornado or a hurricane. An airport weather station in Midland, Texas, recorded a wind gust ...