Learning to fly gliders introduces you to flight without relying upon an engine—in general terms. A glider is typically shaped like an airplane but with wings that have a higher aspect ratio (meaning ...

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 ...

Aug. 6—DENMARK TOWNSHIP — A dozen area students got the opportunity to fly high into the sky on Saturday at Northeast Ohio Regional Airport. The program was co-sponsored by A-Tech, Growing Rural ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Megan McCloskey, a Youngstown State University junior and mechanical-engineering major, launches a small gliding plane she helped design. She was among about 50 ...

It took mankind untold eons to learn how to fly, but now artificial intelligence is doing something similar and in a fraction of the time. No, there’s no robots constructing planes like the Wright ...

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 ...

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 ...