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 ...

An air ambulance Learjet experienced a critical dual engine failure mid-flight while en route to a mission. The pilot, an experienced glider instructor, skillfully executed an emergency landing as a ...

Glider planes can seem like a fun new toy for those who love flying airplanes, but there is so much science that goes into flying a glider plane. First, let's get you familiar with gliders and the ...

MONTABAUR, Germany — Andreas Lubitz never appeared anything but thrilled to have landed a pilot’s job with Germanwings, according to those who helped him learn to fly as a teenager in this town in the ...

Have you ever thought about flying in a glider? Watch one silently overhead and it seems surreal, so free, so, well, simple. It looks like anyone could do it. "Anyone can, with a little bit of ...