NORTH ADAMS — A plane rumbled down the runway at Harriman-and-West Airport midday Thursday, but there’s was a catch. A rope stretched behind the plane to a glider that it tugged down the runway and ...

View from the glider cockpit while being towed aloft. Photo by David Freeze While many of us are intrigued by the opportunity to fly, the process is usually more of a time or financial commitment than ...

Although zero-emission air travel may sound like a thing of the future, gliders have a long history, which can be traced back to the birth of aeronautics. Before the Wright brothers famously outfitted ...

He’s Steve Leonard, a sailplane pilot. He’s been there and back again. Sailplanes look like airplanes. They don’t have engines. A tow plane pulls sailplanes into the air with a cable. A gifted pilot ...

Have you ever thought about flying in a glider? Watch one silently overhead and it seems surreal, so free, so, well, simple. It looks like anyone could do it. "Anyone can, with a little bit of ...