| Serious hang gliders and paragliders can expect to train for up to two years before becoming a pilot. |
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| There will be competing hang gliders and paragliders from Colombia, Venezuela, USA and Ecuador. |
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| Today, the club consists mainly of paragliders, as the available landing zone continues to shrink. |
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| Many of the paragliders have international flying licenses and no one would fly with the club without supervision and adequate training. |
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| Sunday will be the big day with specially dedicated non-powered flying presentations by pilots flying hang gliders, paragliders, and sailplanes. |
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| There is a paragliding school here, and there must have been twenty students out in the lawn yesterday practicing kiting their paragliders. |
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| I have some experience flying paragliders although I have not yet completed my license. |
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| The Attack Falcon is a joy to fly, but, of course, you want to stay in the lift, as the glide is not much better than you will find on the highest performance paragliders. |
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| Developed from parachuting canopies, modern paragliders have replaced hang-gliding as the most popular aerial activity because of a relatively-simple control mechanism. |
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| Modern hang gliders and paragliders have turned the dream of Icarus into reality and where better to experience this than in Wales? |
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| Currently used by small single engine aircraft to ultralights and powered paragliders. |
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| Buckstones Edge has stunning views across the moors to Marsden and is a favourite haunt for hang-gliders and paragliders. |
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| From its introduction until now, the sport in Ghana has mostly been patronised by international paragliders. |
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| Other paragliders did CPR until an air ambulance arrived at Combe Gibbet, near Newbury, Berks, in July. |
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| The festival's agenda includes several lectures and an exhibit of light planes, paragliders, hang gliders, radio controlled rockets and planes. |
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| The paragliders use sophisticated parachutes with a 25-foot canopy that can be steered with guidelines but unlike hang gliders do not have metal frames. |
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| The topography of Wales in general, and the south east in particular, makes it an ideal location for anyone with a yearning to fly hang gliders, paragliders or sailplanes. |
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| Fellow paragliders watched in horror as he hit the ridge and he was winched to safety by a search and rescue RAF Sea King helicopter after the accident at Huntcliff, Saltburn. |
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| Paragliders are not cheap, though they represent one of the least expensive ways to get into the air. |
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| Paragliders and paper aeroplanes have no frames in their wings. |
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