powered hang-glider

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Powered paragliding — Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a motor on his or her back (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider wing paraglider. It can be launched in… …   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

• 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

• Powered parachute — A powered parachute (motorized parachute, PPC, paraplane) is a parachute with motor and wheels. The aircraft s airspeed is typically about 25–35 mph (40–60 km/h). PPCs operate safely at heights ranging from a few feet off the ground (while ground …   Wikipedia

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

• History of hang gliding — Hang gliding is an air sport employing a foot launchable aircraft known as a hang glider. Typically, hang gliders are composed of an aluminium or composite framed fabric wing. The pilot is ensconced in a harness depending from the airframe, and… …   Wikipedia

• Motor glider — DG 808B 18m self launching See also: glider (sailplane) A motor glider is a fixed wing aircraft that can be flown with or without engine power. The FAI Gliding Commission Sporting Code definition is: A fixed wing aerodyne equipped with a means of …   Wikipedia

• glider — /gluy deuhr/, n. 1. a motorless, heavier than air aircraft for gliding from a higher to a lower level by the action of gravity or from a lower to a higher level by the action of air currents. 2. a porch swing made of an upholstered seat suspended …   Universalium