I hoped hang gliding would deliver the unencumbered essence of flight. It certainly delivered the fear. My grip on the control bar was painfully tight as I ran down the lip of the dune.

[Tweepy] flies unpowered aircraft, and he’d like to use the XCSoar flight computer app for gliders ... but running it on a device useful for a hang glider pilot is a challenge.

The US Air Force has inducted multiple aerial cargo glider systems to improve its autonomous resupply operations. In a recent ...

For a sailplane pilot it means the difference between a nice relaxing flight, or searching for ... most often for full-scale sailplane or hang glider pilots. Almost every full-scale plane has ...

Dzyne Technologies says it has delivered multiple Grasshopper autonomous air-launched expendable cargo gliders to the U.S.

According to an initial reconstruction, the man had taken off from Artena with the motorized hang glider in the morning. It seems that during the flight, he reported having difficulties.

Join professional hang gliders, fans, and families for this Kitty Hawk Flight School tradition. The Hang-Gliding Spectacular is the longest-running hang- gliding competition in the world! We are ...