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hang-gliding

Technique of unpowered flying using air currents, perfected by US engineer Francis Rogallo in the 1970s. The aeronaut is strapped into a carrier, attached to a sail wing of nylon stretched on an aluminium frame like a paper dart, and jumps into the air from a high place, where updraughts of warm air allow soaring on the thermals. See gliding.


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Adams goes beyond by including details of other pioneering individuals in the aviation field, and relates humorous moments of his own amateur attempt at hang-gliding in order to personally experience the exhilaration of conquering drag and lift.
Para-gliding is similar to hang-gliding, but para-gliders use a device similar to a parachute, guided by a system of handles.
The limits to public liability, he wrote, were "intended to prevent users of public land who chose to engage in hazardous activities such as hang-gliding from suing public entities when they got hurt.
 
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