The author details their experience obtaining a glider rating, emphasizing the unique skills and intimate pilot-aircraft-environment relationship involved in glider flying. Glider flying is ...

In the early years of World War II, a handful of remote airstrips in the Mojave Desert were transformed into training facilities for America’s first military stealth aircraft. The new airfields at ...

Glider flying (soaring) is an accessible and cost-effective aviation pursuit, not requiring an FAA medical certificate, with skills transferable to other types of flying. Seminole-Lake Gliderport in ...

Years before Marines first waged large-scale combat exercises on the sprawling grounds of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, the area served as a training base for U.S.

HOFFMAN — The Army’s Special Forces, Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations soldiers have been tried, tested and trained at Camp Mackall for decades. But long before the first Green Beret was ...

Gliding in the skies is a form of freedom and responsibility taken on by a group of teenagers in the Columbia Gorge who came together through the Hood River Soaring club. Look, in the sky: it’s a bird ...

Of all his expertise, pilot Chesley Sullenberger’s training in flight without engines was likely a key component in his ability to save all 155 people on board US Airways Flight 1459, a local glider ...

ARLINGTON, Wash. — In the steady chatter of air traffic control at Arlington Municipal Airport, one voice is not like the others: teenager Ishitha Arekapudi. The 16-year-old Inglemoor High School ...

A collision between two gliders at an airfield, which killed a 45-year-old man, could have been prevented with effective ...