TAICHUNG, TaiwanTAICHUNG, Taiwan — They came with homemade gliders and launched themselves into the harbor from a 6-meter- (20-foot-) high ramp. Some just crashed into the water. It was mostly if not ...

A group of Michigan State University students will launch a homemade glider plane in a flying competition next month in Chicago. David Gaunt of Walled Lake, who is a mechanical engineering student at ...

A teenager is flying gliders before he’s old enough for a drivers license. For a lot of folks, getting your driver's license for the first time is a major life milestone. For the teenagers of the Hood ...

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 ...