My student hang glider was almost as low concept as ... I wanted to feel again that strange, lovely moment aloft. A glider wing is an efficient way to generate lift, but my seconds-long flight ...

damaging its wing. Here in San Diego, on the same day as the incident in Los Angeles, a Torrey Pines hang glider was forced to make an emergency landing when a drone became entwined in his parachute.

Hang-gliding friends say he was among the few pioneers of the sport and continued to pursue it into his senior years. A hang-glider pilot for four decades, 69-year-old Arthur Simoneau was a ...