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  2. Freeflying - Wikipedia

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    Free flying is a skydiving discipline that began in the late 1980s, involving falling free in various vertical orientations, as opposed to the traditional "belly-to-earth" orientation. The discipline is known to have originated when Olav Zipser began experimenting with non-traditional forms of Body flight .

  3. Aeronca C-3 - Wikipedia

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    Its design was derived from the Aeronca C-2.Introduced in 1931, it featured room for a passenger seated next to the pilot.Powered by a new 36 hp (27 kW) Aeronca E-113 engine, the seating configuration made flight training much easier and many Aeronca owners often took to the skies with only five hours of instruction, largely because of the C-3's predictable flying characteristics.

  4. List of free flight simulators - Wikipedia

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    B-17 Flying Fortress (possibly not still available) Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer; CRRCSim; DARWARS; Digital Combat Simulator; Dogfights: The Game; Falcon 4.0 (see FreeFalcon) FlightGear; GeoFS; Gunship 2000; Linux Air Combat; Maestro; MusicVR; Microsoft Flight; Pie in the sky (game engine) Red Baron; Rise of Flight: The First Great ...

  5. Category:Films set on airplanes - Wikipedia

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    Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane; Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film) The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) Flight Risk (film) The Flight That Disappeared; Flightplan; The Flying Luna Clipper; Flying Prince

  6. Free flight (model aircraft) - Wikipedia

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    F1B Model by Stepan Stepanchuk. Free flight is the segment of model aviation involving aircraft with no active external control after launch. Free Flight is the original form of hobby aeromodeling, with the competitive objective being to build and launch a self controlling aircraft that will consistently achieve the longest flight duration over multiple competition rounds, within various class ...

  7. Aerocar - Wikipedia

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    Scotty Wright reports Nutsch having 350 flying hours in N103D performing AIRWATCH duty. Traffic reporting was from 7:00 AM–8:30 AM and 4:30 PM–6:00 PM. During the Aerocar's AIRWATCH missions, it was painted white with red hearts [ 12 ] and had the letters KISN on the top and bottom of the wings.

  8. Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 - Wikipedia

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    The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 was an early flying wing aircraft designed and produced by British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.. The A.W.52 emerged from wartime research into the laminar flow airfoil, which indicated that, in combination with the flying wing configuration, such an aircraft could be dramatically more efficient than traditional designs.

  9. Earthflight - Wikipedia

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    Filmed over four years, in six continents and more than 40 countries, the Earthflight team used many extraordinary techniques. For some of the unique flying shots, members of the team became part of the flock. The birds followed wherever they went - even in a microlight over Edinburgh and London. In Africa, paragliders floated alongside wild ...