You're gliding high above the air with very little to stop you from falling to the ground other than the hang glider itself.

Dumond evacuated Tuesday night, the air thick with smoke ... timers who were around when hang gliding became popular — an era ...

“You’re looking more to try to bounce off gusts of air and get energy from air that’s much more complex than just [a thermal],” says Taras Kiceniuk Jr., a hang gliding pioneer who has done ...

Five hundred years of innovation since then had produced the hang glider ... much speed. Glider flight is a controlled descent; pilots gain altitude only if they catch rising air and ride it ...