Xfellow » Hang Gliding http://www.xfellow.com Extreme Sports Fellow Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Hang Gliding http://www.xfellow.com/2009/06/15/hang-gliding/ http://www.xfellow.com/2009/06/15/hang-gliding/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:52:33 +0000 admin http://www.xfellow.com/?p=44 Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminum or composite frame with a fabric wing. Pilots usually control the aircraft by shifting body weight, but other devices, including modern aircraft flight control systems, may be used. The pilot wears a harness and is hung beneath a lifting wing by flexible straps.

In the sport’s early days, pilots were restricted to gliding down small hills on low-performance hang gliders. However, modern technology gives pilots the ability to soar for hours, gain thousands of feet of altitude in thermal updrafts, perform aerobatics, and fly cross-country for hundreds of miles. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and national airspace governing organizations control some aspects of hang gliding.

Hang Gliding

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