Glider training significantly improves a pilot's energy management skills, treating every landing as an engine-out emergency and thereby enhancing precision and survivability in powered aircraft. It ...

WURTSBORO — When Jim Cramer offered to give me a lesson in gliding at Wurtsboro Airport before the Club Class National competition came to town, I didn’t know that learning to fly a glider would ...

Joe Nimmo and his partner Bethan overcome their nerves to take flight over Oxfordshire during a day of glider lessons Sitting in the glider cockpit, waiting to be launched hundreds of feet into the ...

A scholarship programme at three London inner-city schools has seen pupils spend a fortnight learning to fly gliders at an aerodrome near Dunstable in Bedfordshire. The experience has even made pupils ...