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  2. Powered hang glider - Wikipedia

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    In July 2002, Italian hang gliding champion and conservationist, Angelo d'Arrigo, guided a flock of 10 endangered western Siberian cranes, bred in captivity, with an Icaro hang glider equipped with an NRG powered harness 5,300 kilometres (3,300 mi) from the Arctic Circle in Siberia, across Kazakhstan to the shores of the Caspian Sea in Iran ...

  3. Ultralight trike - Wikipedia

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    An ultralight trike or paratrike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by weight-shift. [1] These aircraft have a fabric flex-wing from which is suspended a tricycle fuselage pod driven by a pusher propeller .

  4. Swedish Aerosport Mosquito - Wikipedia

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    Ready to fly the complete aircraft features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift control set up, single-place accommodation, foot-launching and landing and a single engine in pusher configuration. [1] The aircraft uses a standard hang glider wing, made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its wing covered in Dacron ...

  5. Wills Wing - Wikipedia

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    Wills Wing, Inc. (legally Sport Kites, Inc) is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Orange, California and previously located in Santa Ana, California.The company specializes in the design and manufacture of hang gliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, plus hang glider harnesses and accessories.

  6. Powered paragliding - Wikipedia

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    Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring or PPG, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a back-pack motor (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider. It can be launched in still air, and on level ground, by the pilot alone—no assistance is required.

  7. Motor glider - Wikipedia

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    DG-808B 18m self-launching. A motor glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that can be flown with or without engine power. The FAI Gliding Commission Sporting Code definition is: a fixed-wing aerodyne equipped with a means of propulsion (MoP), capable of sustained soaring flight without thrust from the means of propulsion.

  8. Hang-gliding pioneer tried to save Topanga home. His friends ...

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    A hang-glider pilot for four decades, 69-year-old Arthur Simoneau was a calculated risk-taker. And so, as residents fled the Palisades fire Tuesday, Simoneau headed closer to the inferno.

  9. Pegasus Booster - Wikipedia

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    The booster was sold either as an engine package or as a powered hang gliding harness, to which the pilot could add any standard hang glider wing. When ready to fly the aircraft features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, single-place accommodation, foot-launching and landing and a single engine in pusher configuration.