Gliders with engines do exist. They are called motor gliders and are essentially fixed-wing aircraft that can be flown with ...

Federal officials say it is generally legal to fly a drone in non-controlled air spaces if it is operated under 400 feet, avoids all other aircraft — like hang gliders — and abides by other ...

The new hang glider was radically different from nearly every other hang glider flying at the time. It was a rigid-wing, tailless biplane and Taras named it "Icarus" after the Greek legend of a father ...

A paraglider instructor was killed in a tragic accident during a mid-air collision with a hang glider in Utah on Tuesday, cops said. The two aircraft crashed around 5 p.m. near Salt Lake County ...

Object Details Manufacturer Otto Lilienthal Physical Description Monoplane hang glider built by nineteenth-century German experimenter Otto Lilienthal in 1894. Single surface fabric covering over ...

Florence police say one person was injured Monday morning when a glider crashed near Florence High School. Police received a call around 8 a.m. of a “suspicious aircraft” flying around the ...

A hang glider is a triangular, kite-like aircraft flown by a pilot who is suspended horizontally underneath. A paraglider is an elongated parachute designed to glide with a pilot suspended in a ...

68-year-old man dead after crashing hang-glider in Mifflin County The operator of the hang-glider lost control of the aircraft and landed in a tree, according to the coroner's office.

A collision between a longtime Utah paragliding instructor and a hang glider Tuesday left the instructor dead and a woman he was paragliding in tandem with critically injured.

A hang glider is a triangular aircraft flown by a pilot suspended underneath horizontally. The activity allows thrill-seekers to soar hundreds or thousands of feet in the air.

MISSOULA (AP) — The University of Montana has suspended all hang-gliding from Mount Sentinel until safety and liability concerns are settled, said Jim Lemcke, director of UM’s office of public ...