NEWPORT BEACH — With aircraft made of little more than bamboo and plastic sheets, a ragtag group of aerial adventurers threw themselves off a hilltop here on May 23, 1971, launching what became known ...

The phrase is often used by people who soar high in the sky in non-motorized lightweight aircraft. These adventurists hang gliders and paragliders, known as pilots, challenge gravity from a 600 feet ...

Hang-gliders are taking to the skies over regional Australia with some competitions seeing a surge in pilot entries. The increase is part of a growing resurgence the sport is seeing across the country ...

When Tom Low was growing up in the Bay Area, he knew he wasn’t your average kid. “Some people growing up want a pony. I wanted a hang glider,” he said. Low had grown up around aviation — his father ...

One by one, my three children soared above the wind-swept sand dunes, overcome with jubilation as they took to the sky on colorful 30-foot-wide hang gliders. As they experienced flight for themselves, ...

Click to open image viewer. Taras Kiceniuk, Jr., designed this revolutionary tailless, rigid-wing, hang glider. Like the flexible wing, Rogallo-type hang gliders that preceeded it, one person could ...