A gliding club in Devon is encouraging women to reach for the skies. The Dartmoor Gliding Society said that fewer than 5% of almost 30,000 pilots in the UK were women and it wanted to encourage more ...

A top British glider pilot was killed instantly when his aircraft slammed into a rocky hillside at 150mph. Highly experienced Peter Reading was celebrating his 60th birthday with a solo flight over ...

Another day’s action has been cancelled at the FAI World Gliding Championships in Australian city Benalla ©British Gliding Team/Facebook The cancellation today, put down to "slow heating" by event ...

The 60-year-old was declared dead at the scene in Hampshire A FORMER world champion hang-glider has been killed in a crash. Kay Draper, 60, died when her glider plane plunged into a cornfield. The ...