ZEPHYR COVE, Nev. – We were flying a few thousand feet above the sunny Carson Valley, high enough to see the deep blue of Lake Tahoe over the snow-frosted mountains to the left. I was just getting ...
When Tom Low was growing up in the Bay Area, he knew he wasn’t your average kid. “Some people growing up want a pony. I wanted a hang glider,” he said. Low had grown up around aviation — his father ...
On this day in 1945 thousands of young men packed into gliders flew into a wall of anti-aircraft fire in the last big airborne operation of the Second World War. Operation Varsity, the crossing of the ...