To the sailplane enthusiast, the best things in life are a cramped cockpit, a long slender wing, a stout updraft, and unending miles of sky. Given these things, plus ice to suck and fruit to munch, he ...

The pilot of an ASW-27 sailplane had just entered a 30-degree left bank spiraling climb when it collided with the Hawker 800XP. The right wing spar of the glider remained impaled into the Hawker’s ...