The Gliding competition season looks promising this year with five World and Continental Championships registered in the FAI events calendar. The first Category 1 event of the season, the 5th FAI ...

Hang gliding is the only way to fly. After enviously watching the birds effortlessly gliding through the air, humans have built all kinds of contraptions for flight, ranging from glider planes to ...

The 5th FAI European Junior Gliding Championships was hosted by the Kaunas Gliding Club at Pociūnai airfield, Lithuania between 11 July to 23 July 2021. A total of 44 pilots aged under 25 took part, ...

PHOENIX (KSAZ) - Most Saturdays, weather permitting, a group of people would gather at South Mountain Park, to test their hand-gliding and paragliding skills, high up in the air. The group belongs to ...

A gliding club in Devon is encouraging women to reach for the skies. The Dartmoor Gliding Society said that fewer than 5% of almost 30,000 pilots in the UK were women and it wanted to encourage more ...

There is no fear among us. Then Brad Kushner launches into Part 3 of his hang-gliding lecture: How to Avoid Crashes and What to Do if You Do Crash. The 34-year-old entrepreneur, who has parlayed his ...

THE first man to launch himself off Sutton Bank in a glider seems to have been one Erik Addyman. He'd have been little more than 20 years old when, in 1911 - just a few years after the Wright brothers ...

FUTURE pilots have been given air safety tips from RAF crews at an air base in North Yorkshire. Yorkshire Gliding Club and RAF Linton-on-Ouse got together to discuss air safety awareness and educate ...

Walter "Wally" Kahn, who has died aged 88, had a huge influence on the development of the British gliding movement for nearly 70 years. Kahn learnt to glide immediately after the Second World War ...