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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like any other weekend, Whitehall hang glider Don Lepinsky gathered with friends from the Montana Gliding Association to fly with the birds above Red Mountain. They drove south of Butte into the ...