Desert Aerospace has modified the two-seat TST-14J sailplane to accept the tiny jet engine. For takeoff, the jet engine sits directly behind the cockpit and allows the glider to climb at more than ...

WURTSBORO — There’s flying, and then there’s soaring. The sport of piloting a glider, or sailplane, is called soaring. With no engine, a glider pilot reads the clouds, the sky and the ...

On Thursday evenings and weekends, if you look at the sky over Middlefield in Geauga County, you may spot a sleek, silent aircraft soaring like a bird. It is not an airplane because it has no ...