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 ...

A helicopter drops water on a fire near Topanga Village along Topanga Canyon Road on Wednesday. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) A hang-glider pilot for four decades, 69-year-old Arthur Simoneau ...

The closest Rich Selgrad has ever gotten to achieving his lifelong dream of flying like a bird is when he is up in his hang glider or paraglider. “I’ve been wingtip to wingtip with a bald eagle,” said ...

Michele Holland ’87 needed to fulfill her one-credit physical education requirement (which was a thing for college students some 30 years ago). One day on campus, she saw a flyer for the University of ...

Event drew hang gliders from across the global to Texas for competition. Oct. 18, 2009— -- The sky over Big Spring, Texas, provides near-perfect conditions for racing hang gliders. But the area ...

SYLMAR — For the human birds of Sylmar on Saturday, it took a few short steps to leap off Kagel Mountain thousands of feet in the air to freedom. The freedom to soar toward heaven on 100-degree ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) -- Most days when the winds are right and he's not working, you will find Cumberland resident Jim Rowan soaring the skies of the tri-state region aboard his single-wing hang ...

As far as heart-pounding and harrowing video is concerned, the footage below of a hang gliding mishap at an extreme sports event in Norway may take the cake. In late June, world championship hang ...

It makes sense, when floating around Steptoe Butte, that Icarus would have wanted to defy gravity, impugn the gods and challenge the sun to soar closer to the ionosphere. Maybe he wanted to find the ...

“New C.D.C. Report Doesn’t Mention Risk of Infection While Hang-Gliding—But You Have to Imagine It’s Pretty Low” “Maintain Your Mental Health by Going for a Quick Hang-Glide Around the Block” ...

Pilot William Jon Orders' passenger plummeted to her death from 1,000 feet. May 3, 2012 — -- A Canadian hang gliding pilot whose passenger plummeted 1,000 feet to her death is in police custody ...

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, ...