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paraglider had #t=6. The set w was with an airframe of inflated leading
edge and an inflated central keel. The resistive set consisted of an
object to mimic a spacecraft.
Many hang gliders are NOT paragliders.
However, many hang gliders ARE paragliders.
A cultish sport group has been desperately trying to disown many
paragliders as not paragliders; that game neglects the rich and robust
opportunities of unlimited paragliders and unlimited paragliding. The cult
says: "Look what I fly; that is a paraglider and all other objects are not
paragliders!" The cult puts a blind eye to single-line #t=1
paragliders, a blind eye to framed paragliders, a blind eye to a vast
spectrum of paragliders that have multiple wings in one paraglider, a
blind eye to paragliders that have all levels of framing. The cult
wants one corner of paragliders to be all that there is; they have no time
to see the other realms of paragliders. That is OK for the cult, but not
OK for general aviation, for engineering, for sport with the other sorts
of paragliders, for industrial paragliding, etc.
All paragliders are hang gliders. But not all hang gliders are
paragliders. Some paragliders have one short tether that allows the
pilot to manipulate the wing's airframe.
Paragliders may even have fully solid wings while still having the
necessary kite line set to the resistive set; the resistive set can be
goods or goods and a human or many humans. Gravity pulls the resistive
set; tension is set up in the line or tether set; the pull on the wing
couples the wind in the gliding flight that results. The united three
subassemblies: wings, tethers, resistive set is a gliding kite called
paraglider. The fully soft wing sort is a popular class of
wing used in a popular way in sport paragliding; but sport paragliding is
fully open to choose wings that are semi-rigid or even fully solid. And
the line set may be numbered from one to very many, especially when lines
are doubling as wing formers and wing-control lines.
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Wings
PG Activity Sector
One or more wings are used in a paraglider. The
choice set is large. Variations in specifics are infinite. A specific wing
choice is followed by wear, fatigue, and other changes. Wings may also be
in a paraglider's resistive set besides being in the apex wing set.
Maintenance. Storage. Repair. Testing. Porosity. UV age.
Storage methods. Wings may have any degree of softness or hardness;
one sub-class is fully soft canopy; other subclasses include airframed
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Evolutes of monoplane wings.
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Evolutes of wings of sails
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Evolutes of shaped balloons HTA and LTA
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Evolutes of wings of thick airfoils.
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Evolutes of sailwings.
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Evolutes of Rogallo wing.
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Evolutes of Barish SSP2S glide wing
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Evolutes of Domina Jalbert parafoil wing
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Evolutes of modified parachute wings.
- Evolutes of vertical axis rotary wings.
- Evolutes of horizontal axis rotary wings
- Evolutes of various gliding parachutes
- Positively inflated wings
- Ram-air inflated wings
- Evolutes of inflatable wings (ram-air, ram-air free-open, ram-air
capture, ram-air-capture-enhanced pilot pressurizing,
ram-air-plus-positive pressurization under control, LEI, LEI+inflated
ribs, full pos-inflate, sectored inflation, flight-sector inflation,
etc.)
- Inflatable wings of closed positive
pressure elements with pressure limiters and pressure adjusters.
Distinguish from ram-air inflatable wings. Consider the spanwise
inflated elements and the special aerodynamics of bumps from spanwise
inflated elements.
Distinguish between inflatable rigidizable and those that can be
deflated and used over again.
Mars.
- Woopy (frame and inflation devices)
single-tether paraglider
woopy jump Charmey |
Woopy 1 |
how to "WOOPY" |
Woopy Fly |
- Evolutes of flat wings.
- Stuffed wings
- Puff wings
- Brownian-motion considerations
- Evolutes of morphable wings.
- Evolutes of reflexed airfoils for wings
- Solid wings
- Semi-solid wings
- Skeletonized wings
- Slotted wings
- Joined wings
- Suction-enhanced wings
- Gustave A. Whitehead
- Canopy wings in sport paragliding
- Beginner and Intermediate wings
Discussion of EN A, B, C, LTF 1, 1-2, 2-rated wings and other wings
suitable for beginner and intermediate pilots (e.g. lightweight
uncertified wings).
- Serial and Open Class wings
Discussion of EN D, LTF 2-3, Competition, and prototype wings suitable
for advanced pilots.
- Wing comparisons - Wing selection
- Trying to choose between several models?
- Have you flown several wings and want to
compare them?
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- Build your own wing
- 2011 Ozone
EnZo,
an EN-D, two-liner hybrid competition gliding kite (paraglider)
- Ozone R10.2
- Ozone R11
- Ozone M4
- Paraglider
Manufacturers Association (PMA)
(gliding kite hang gliders with limp-canopies and long
bridle/wing-shape-former/control lines with pilot as main resistive-set
element
Paragliders are not limited to what the PMA members make. See HGMA for
the paragliders that feature one short bridle line that permits pilot to
directly work the framed wing; such gliding-kite paragliders use the
default term "hang gliders."
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Paraglider Manufacturer LIFT
- HGMA (kite hang gliders that
generally are with one short bridle line that allows the pilot to
directly handle the wing's airframe which often includes the triangle
control frame of two downtubes and a base bar (TCF). These hang gliders
are paragliders, but use the default term of "hang gliders."
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Hang Glider Manufacturer LIFT
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