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 ...

YOU JOINING US THIS MORNING. YEAH, WE’RE GOING TO GLIDE RIGHT INTO OUR FIRST LIVE INTERVIEW. IT’S BEEN 50 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST HANG GLIDER FLIGHT AT GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN. YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE TO ...

It was my first day of hang-gliding lessons, and already I felt like a bird. A big, stupid, flightless bird. I was running around in a damp field, harnessed into a huge set of wings, sweating like mad ...

We hang glide with Kitty Hawk Kites at Jockey's Ridge in Nags Head, NC. We learn how to fly by hang gliding with Kitty Hawk Kites at Jockey’s Ridge State Park in Nags Head, NC.

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 ...

Every weekend, Lisa Bradley soars thousands of metres above Queensland's stunning Scenic Rim, chasing pockets of air that pull her even higher. But while she happily flies now, 27 years ago Lisa ...

Every time Pocatello hang-gliding enthusiast Dr. Paul Allen perches on a launch site on the slopes of King Mountain about eight miles north of Arco, waiting for the wind to carry him aloft, he wonders ...

HOUSTON – Hang gliding is a popular air sport and has been since the 1890s, now there’s a place just outside of Houston where you can take to the sky and try it for yourself. Cowboy Up Hang Gliding ...

Like any other weekend, Whitehall hang glider Don Lepinsky gathered with friends from the Montana Gliding Association to fly with the birds above Red Mountain. They drove south of Butte into the ...