Glider training enhances airplane pilots' understanding of energy management, vital for mastering engine-out landings and refining overall flying techniques. Pilots learn that best glide speed is ...

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 ...

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 ...