Glider flying teaches superior energy management, using altitude as potential energy for precise speed and descent control, and introduces detailed methods like polar curves for optimizing best glide ...

Fred Fehsenfeld, a Purdue mechanical engineering alumnus, stands near Sky Dancer, a Pipistrel Sinus glider he gifted to Purdue. The gift effectively ushers in a new era of glider instruction and ...

Flying about 3,000 feet above Arlington Airport, there's a click -- and then it's quiet.. The click comes as the pilot of the engineless glider releases a towrope, freeing his aircraft from the ...

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 ...

Extra curricular activities such as clubs and sports teams can be a big part of a student's high school years. For 16-year-old Cameron Strawmier, some of his time spent outside of school is spent ...