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 Animals
PG Activity Sector
Partners, pests, leaders, guides, friends,
companions, aerodynamic models,
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- Advancing PG enjoyment by seeing oneself as a kind of
duck
DF1
DF2
DF3
DF4
DF5
DF6
DF7
DF8
DF9
- Birds enhance my PG
Birds (class Aves)
- Paragliding spiders (gliding kiting) "Ballooning
(spider)"
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Ballooning is a term used for the mechanical kiting[2][3] that
many spiders,
especially small species,[4] as
well as certain mites and
some caterpillars use
to disperse through the air. Some spiders have been detected in
atmospheric data balloons collecting air samples at slightly less than
5 km (16000 ft) above sea level.[5] It
is the most common way for spiders to invade isolated islands and
mountaintops.[6][7]
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Aeroplankton
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Flying
and gliding animals
- Insects increase my flight joys
- Flies
- Spiders instruct my free-flight realm.
- Some mammals add to my free-flight PG experience
- Paragliding spiders are by sisters and brothers.
- Gliding squirrels and I are friends.
- Some dinosaurs root my PG life.
- Those gliding snakes bring color to my own gliding.
- Those gliding ants enhance my technical-flying life.
- Flying fish urge me to solve XO self-soar flying. XO: Cross
Ocean.
- Flies and speed flying seem to spark my PG ways.
- Anatidae
(inspired by Dave Massie, October 31,
2011)
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Bird species named after R.M. (aerobornus Rickmasterus).
- Anand "Quack-Quack" Iyer seems to select this sector, as
that is his signature.
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parahawkusa
- Vulture takes
down paraglider!
- Dogs in launch and landing zones.
- Landing into groups of animals.
- Animals invading stored paragliders.
- Animals in the atmosphere: birds, insects, spiders, microbes ..
that
meet paragliders during flight. Goggles.
- Images of animals in wing art, helmet and clothing and harness art.
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Fly The Skies With A Bird As Guide
- This is a call for comprehensive study of
paragliding spiders.
The lines play a double role as wing set
and tether set. The resistive set is the spider's body that has its own
aerodynamics. All parts of the gliding-kite system (paraglider) play a
role in successful paragliding.
- Species
- Mechanisms
- Drawings
- Photographs
- Videos
- Reynolds numbers
- Physics. Aerodynamics
- Record flights observed
- Jonathan's video of 2011. Camera picked up soaring spider
line. His comments.
- Lines playing as wing set and tether set
- Articles on topic
- Researchers
- Scientific papers
- Close description of the lines
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Paragliding spiders: (gliding kiting spiders;
"ballooning spiders")
Hi Paul, Nov. 2011
Thanks for bringing in the spider article; see the history of that
article and find my contributions.
Indeed, also, nature has provided us with the free-flight gliding
spider (paragliding spiders). Note in forum the mention also of "puff"
paraglider which is a lead for what the spider has given us. Notice that
class "kite" has subclasses, one of which is where the mooring or
resistive set is freely falling through the air, thus the kiting spiders
(which is the same in their case to say: paragliding spiders. Spider
paragliding includes occasionally the single tether that acts both as
tether and as wing, and the other spiders that have multiple tethers
that double as tether and wing. The undulations from minor gusts and
other oscillations cause the tethers to shape to present more
aerodynamic surfaces to the air for greater chances to give net lift.
Transcontinental flights by such paragliding spiders has been suspected
as they get dynamically soaring into the higher wind streams. Thanks for
your positive contribution to the topic. Nov. 15, 2011 in PM.
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remiges (singular remex)
- Various animals regularly paraglide; the animals are sometimes taken
along a flight deliberately; but most animals are taken inadvertently on
flights; the animals hitch a ride in our harness, in our clothes, on our
skin, inside our body, etc. Microbes, fleas, dogs, etc. And
some plants hitch rides also.
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http://www.npr.org/2011/12/02/143055124/flight-of-the-wild-pigeon
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http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5&prgDate=12-02-2011
- Feather science.
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