Boettger has been flying gliders since he was 13 years old, folding his 6-foot-5-inch frame into the cockpit. “I have an inch above my head to the top of the cockpit,” he said.

Sitting in a folding chair under a weathered canopy on a warm California day in Lake Elsinore’s Skylark Airport (CA89), I listened as a group of glider pilots talked about the improving weather.

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Riding the wind above the Andes Mountains, an experimental glider has set a world record for high-altitude flight. On Sept. 2, the sleek Perlan 2 glider carried two pilots to 76,100 feet, or more ...