Noel Wade, an information technology manager in Seattle, was piloting his glider back to Ephrata airport last month after a 2 1/2-hour flight. He was starting his descent checklist, with the cockpit ...

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 ...

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 ...