A champion hang glider was killed in a freak accident after colliding with a paraglider in midair over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. Two-time Brazilian hang-gliding champion Philip Eric Haegler, ...

NODA, Chiba Prefecture—Nearly a decade after first taking to the sky in his take on the glider from “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,” Kazuhiko Hachiya flew his creation for the last time here. The ...

Backpack slope soaring wings deliver a lightweight and portable gliding experience, and in this video we test how an ultralight wing performs in real slope lift conditions. Watch the full flight to ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...