NORTH ADAMS — A plane rumbled down the runway at Harriman-and-West Airport midday Thursday, but there’s was a catch. A rope stretched behind the plane to a glider that it tugged down the runway and ...

View from the glider cockpit while being towed aloft. Photo by David Freeze While many of us are intrigued by the opportunity to fly, the process is usually more of a time or financial commitment than ...

Have you ever thought about flying in a glider? Watch one silently overhead and it seems surreal, so free, so, well, simple. It looks like anyone could do it. "Anyone can, with a little bit of ...

Although zero-emission air travel may sound like a thing of the future, gliders have a long history, which can be traced back to the birth of aeronautics. Before the Wright brothers famously outfitted ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. In a grassy field at the north end of Boulder Municipal Airport, I find Alfonso Ossorio sitting atop a picnic ...