hang-glider pilot

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• hang-glider — hang gliders also hang glider 1) N COUNT A hang glider is a type of glider, made from large piece of cloth fixed to a frame. It is used to fly from high places, with the pilot hanging underneath. 2) N COUNT A hang glider is a person who flies… …   English dictionary

• Powered hang glider — A foot launched powered hang glider (FLPHG), also called powered harness, nanolight or hangmotor, is a powered hang glider harness with a motor and propeller in pusher configuration. An ordinary hang glider is used for its wing and control frame …   Wikipedia

• Bryan Allen (hang glider) — Bryan L. Allen (born October 13, 1952 in Visalia, California) is self taught hang glider pilot and bicyclist. He achieved fame when he piloted the aircraft that won the first two Kremer prizes for human powered flight, the Gossamer Condor (1977)… …   Wikipedia

• hang glider — hang′ glid er n. spo aer. a kitelike glider consisting of aV shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped • Etymology: 1925–30 …   From formal English to slang

• hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot s shifting body weight. [1925 30] * * * …   Universalium

• hang glider — A glider, including a powered glider with the engine not operating, capable of being launched and landed solely by the use of the pilot’s legs. The term includes paragliders …   Aviation dictionary

• Hang gliding — Hang glider launching from Mount Tamalpais …   Wikipedia

• Rotary-wing hang glider — When a helicopter or gyrocopter is in engine off deliberately or inadvertently, then a sector of flight occurs that is autorotation hang gliding. When human powered helicopter flights experience the pilot in rest mode, then a hang gliding flight… …   Wikipedia

• Glider — Gliders or Sailplanes are heavier than air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. See also gliding and motor gliders for more details. [cite web url = http://www.ssa.org/UsTeam/adobe%20pdf/pr%20pdf/BR%20Sailplanes%20V3%2004.pdf title …   Wikipedia

• hang gliding — the sport of launching oneself from a cliff or a steep incline and soaring through the air by means of a hang glider. [1970 75] * * * Sport of flying in unpowered aircraft that are light enough to be carried by the pilot. Takeoff is usually… …   Universalium

• hang glide — verb fly by means of a hang glider • Syn: ↑soar • Derivationally related forms: ↑soar (for: ↑soar), ↑soaring (for: ↑soar), ↑ …   Useful english dictionary