The Palm Bay Police Department in Florida has become the first in the nation to put its officers in powered paragliders, the ultra-light flying machines usually associated with adventure sports ...

Beach Blitz: Powered paragliders fly through the sky at Coastal Bend beaches While it is challenging and requires many hours of training, experts said the wind here is usually ideal for it. 00:02 ...

A paramotor is a motorized paraglider, essentially a paraglider with a motor and propeller attached to the pilot’s back, enabling them to take off and fly from relatively flat surfaces.

Family and friends are mourning the loss of Timothy Williams, a 35-year-old military veteran who died in a paraglider crash ...

An 81-year-old man is dead after his motorized paraglider failed and he crashed into a tree near Brainerd Wednesday evening, authorities said.

The sports and entertainment world lost an iconic skydiver and BASE jumper this week as record-setter Felix Baumgartner lost his life in an accident. Baumgartner was flying a motorized paraglider ...

SALEM, Mass. (AP) – A Massachusetts man says police overreacted when they arrested him for disorderly conduct after he flew a motorized paraglider on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 ...

A former TV pitchman in Utah accused of kicking a barn owl in flight while riding a motorized paraglider pleaded guilty to the charges Friday, one day after a proposed plea deal fell through when ...

Attacking a target in a city using a non-motorized paraglider would be virtually impossible unless the city was ringed by mountains or steep hills, Rohlff said.

Felix Baumgartner, the skydiver who broke the sound barrier in his 24-mile dive in 2012, died on Thursday, July 17 at 56, after crashing his paraglider. The accident occurred in the Italian city ...