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 ...

Short of sprouting wings, piloting an 18-metre fibreglass glider is the closest Christopher Thorpe will get to an eagle in flight. It is a clear summer day in western Victoria as he prepares for ...

A 120 million-year-old fossil found in what’s now northwestern China is changing how scientists think about an unusual group of predatory dinosaurs known as microraptors. The location where the fossil ...

Gliding takes on a different mentality in the United States vs. Europe, Kujat said. “The European model is they’re going to do everything to protect the pilot from himself. In America, we do just ...

A study of gliding animals has challenged the idea that evolutionary innovations—adaptations that bring new abilities and advantages—spur the origin of other new body types and other characteristics ...

Gliding, by almost any definition, is not a popular sport. However, it could serve as good proxy to illustrate a larger point: that China's rise is affecting even the most unsuspecting industries in ...