Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A couple of thousand feet below me, a Spitfire skims above the grass of Booker Airfield. It climbs through the ...

It starts with a tow rope – the nylon cord linking a gleaming, long-winged glider to the single-engine airplane that will boost it skyward. The launch is lumpy and ungainly; as the propeller plane ...

LITTLEFIELD - The white Discus 2B glider fights against the strong winds and blowing dust as the tow plane pulls the glider up into the West Texas sky. From his laptop, Lt. Col. Mark Matticola of the ...

HOT SPRINGS - Members of the Black Hills Soaring Club hosted awarding-winning glider pilot Karl Strudieck for a few hours last Wednesday afternoon out at the Hot Springs Municipal Airport. Strudieck, ...