The phrase is often used by people who soar high in the sky in non-motorized lightweight aircraft. These adventurists hang gliders and paragliders, known as pilots, challenge gravity from a 600 feet ...

A helicopter drops water on a fire near Topanga Village along Topanga Canyon Road on Wednesday. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) A hang-glider pilot for four decades, 69-year-old Arthur Simoneau ...

A writer who swore she'd never hang glide discovers how exhilarating a tandem flight at Lookout Mountain Flight Park can be ...

The closest Rich Selgrad has ever gotten to achieving his lifelong dream of flying like a bird is when he is up in his hang glider or paraglider. “I’ve been wingtip to wingtip with a bald eagle,” said ...

SYLMAR — For the human birds of Sylmar on Saturday, it took a few short steps to leap off Kagel Mountain thousands of feet in the air to freedom. The freedom to soar toward heaven on 100-degree ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) -- Most days when the winds are right and he's not working, you will find Cumberland resident Jim Rowan soaring the skies of the tri-state region aboard his single-wing hang ...

Milpitas, CA - The fingerprints of the man killed in a hang-gliding crash are being used to confirm his identity, the Santa Clara County coroner said Tuesday. A day after the deadly plummet from ...

“New C.D.C. Report Doesn’t Mention Risk of Infection While Hang-Gliding—But You Have to Imagine It’s Pretty Low” “Maintain Your Mental Health by Going for a Quick Hang-Glide Around the Block” ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - The future of the University of Montana's south campus is still in the air, but that's not stopping the UM Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club from looking at the future. The ...

One by one, my three children soared above the wind-swept sand dunes, overcome with jubilation as they took to the sky on colorful 30-foot-wide hang gliders. As they experienced flight for themselves, ...

Michele Holland ’87 needed to fulfill her one-credit physical education requirement (which was a thing for college students some 30 years ago). One day on campus, she saw a flyer for the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A helicopter drops water on a fire near Topanga Village along Topanga Canyon Road on Wednesday. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times ...