You see a plane, you expect to hear an engine. But gliders are a different breed of aircraft, representing flight in its purest form. They are frankly a testament to just how far clever engineering ...

PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says the pilot of a glider plane has died in a failed takeoff in Aguila, Ariz., on Saturday afternoon. A male pilot, identified as 61-year-old Robert ...

The C-123’s origins trace back to heavy assault gliders and the brutal logic of silent landings that could put troops and equipment directly onto a battlefield. The problem was survival: gliders were ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – The pilot of a glider plane died Friday after the aircraft crashed into a median on State Road 60 west of Interstate 95, officials said. The 57-year-old man was the only person ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – The man who died in glider plane crash in Indian River County Friday has been identified as Brian Richard Daems, 57, according to a recently-released report from the Indian River ...

BENTON, N.H. - An 84-year-old Vermont man crashed a glider plane into the White Mountain Forest on Sunday, and he lives to tell the tale. He was suspended 20-feet off the ground for several hours. "I ...

June 11 (UPI) --A plane in China was delayed after a passenger's smuggled pet sugar glider, a type of small Australian possum, escaped in the passenger cabin. Shanghai Police International Airport ...

Co-pilots David Jansen and Grant Anderson flew a sailplane 787 miles without the help of an engine Getty A pair of pilots made history last month when they traveled 10 hours and 787 miles in a ...

The pilot of a small glider plane has died after crashing near an airport in southern Connecticut, state police announced Saturday. Bradley Daar, 70, of Clinton, was piloting a single-engine ...

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