These are people he would have enjoyed hosting for dinner. That’s how Scott McGaugh chooses his book subjects. The people in his new book, due out Tuesday, were glider pilots during World War II.

Bob Powell spent two years training for the September day he flew an engineless plane into Holland in 1944 for Operation Market-Garden. "They wrote a book on how to fly (a glider) but it takes a ...

The pilots, meanwhile, appear unconcerned and confused, their calm expressions contrasting with the glider’s frantic realization. This strip earns its place at the bottom of the list for its ...

Glider pilots Bruce Nixon, left, of Wayne, New Jersy, and Allison Tyler, of Perry, compare nots April 19 while preparing a glider to head off into the wild blue yonder April 19 in Perry's annual ...

Sitting in a folding chair under a weathered canopy on a warm California day in Lake Elsinore’s Skylark Airport (CA89), I listened as a group of glider pilots talked about the improving weather.

Katelyn Erthal of Huntington, a glider student at the Long Island Soaring Association at Brookhaven Calabro Airport, gets ready to fly in Shirley on July 31. Credit: Kendall Rodriguez ...

At the Smithsonian | April 11, 2022. This Quirky Contraption Lifted 19th-Century Pilots Into the Air for a Short, Exhilarating Glide. The rare Lilienthal glider, one of only a few originals known ...

William Hanson was one of three glider pilots who left an airport in New Jersey with the intent to fly over Fulton County and return. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close.