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 ...

Hang gliding over Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga with Lookout Mountain Flight Park of Rising Fawn, Georgia. Long a fan of and an active participant in aviation and adventure, I’ve tried a number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aug. 4—LENOIR — Enjoy beautiful scenery and learn all about the joys of flight with Appalachian Airsports, a Lenoir-based hang gliding school. Willie Vaughn opened Appalachian Airsports in September ...

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 ...