The two run Wills Wing Inc. in Orange, the world’s biggest manufacturer of hang gliders. Pearson, 56, the company’s president, and Meier, 62, its chief financial officer, also are part of a ...

They were teaching themselves to fly,” said Mike Meier, president of the Hang Glider Manufacturers Assn. and a principal at Wills Wing Inc., a hang glider manufacturer in Orange. “Suddenly ...

Steve Baran launched his Wills Wing U2-160 hang glider into the void on Saturday. “I launched into 20 mph winds. I was able to get a few hundred feet above the top of the butte in thermal ...

Owen Morse, who is one half of the professional juggling duo The Passing Zone alongside Jon Wee, shattered the record by flying his Wills Wing T3 hang glider over the Sierra Nevada mountains of ...

Francis Rogallo, 97, an aeronautical engineer who was considered the father of modern hang gliding and other recreational sports for inventing a flexible wing in 1948 that revolutionized ...

The process generally involves snagging a bagged parachute mounted to the glider's frame, and then throwing it clear of actual craft in order achieve a tangle-free deployment. Wills Wings, a hang ...