On Thursday evenings and weekends, if you look at the sky over Middlefield in Geauga County, you may spot a sleek, silent aircraft soaring like a bird. It is not an airplane because it has no motor; ...

WURTSBORO — There’s flying, and then there’s soaring. The sport of piloting a glider, or sailplane, is called soaring. With no engine, a glider pilot reads the clouds, the sky and the landscape, to ...

Buy a radio-controlled glider here. Another interesting video. Special thanks to Stefan Langer, a professional glider pilot who provided live action footage of real gliders. Visit his channel. Gliders ...

A creative bunch of tinkerers think the recent trend of self-launching gliders needs a bit of a boost. So instead of outfitting their high-performance sailplane with an electric or small piston motor, ...

Sailplanes, or gliders, are high-performance aircraft that do not have engines aboard, but instead “sail” or “soar” on air currents like hawks and eagles. Glider pilots maneuver their aircraft by ...

The glider slowly follows its tow plane down the runway. The two craft pick up speed, bumping on the uneven ground. Suddenly, the sailplane takes flight, skimming just above the earth’s surface until ...