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 ...

The phrase is often used by people who soar high in the sky in non-motorized lightweight aircraft. These adventurists hang gliders and paragliders, known as pilots, challenge gravity from a 600 feet ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. Taras Kiceniuk, Jr., designed this revolutionary tailless, rigid-wing, hang glider. Like the flexible wing, Rogallo-type hang gliders that preceeded it, one person could ...

Corinna Schwiegershausen feels right at home in the skies above Lake County, taking in the countryside from her hang glider as she competed in an international competition. She hardly ever has her ...