You see a plane, you expect to hear an engine. But gliders are a different breed of aircraft, representing flight in its purest form. They are frankly a testament to just how far clever engineering ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. In a grassy field at the north end of Boulder Municipal Airport, I find Alfonso Ossorio sitting atop a picnic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bob reaches down, flips a switch, and the aircraft’s turbocharged engine stops stone-cold dead. He aligns the now-motionless propeller and retracts it into ...

A sleek, engineless glider plane awaited me on the grass runway at Richmond Airfield in Unadilla Township on July 11. With my feet still on the ground, I got nervous about going thousands of feet up ...

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 ...

ALAMOGORDO - I arrived at the Alamogordo-White Sands Regional Airport on a cool Saturday in early April at the invitation of the White Sands Soaring Association. The group, formed in 1959 to share the ...