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That was a Swift you saw, manufactured by Bright Star Gliders in Santa Rosa.
Mine flies great
...hang glider are many. 1) Since HG are tailess designs, getting good pitch stability is much harder than on gliders with tails. The wing has to both generate lift and provide lateral and pitch stabilit...
Has anyone any information on tandem wing hang gliders? The only ones I've ever heard of were those of Montgomery, back in the 1800's. They were apparently very stable. Did anyone else exper...
gliders for sale
I am looking to buy a 1970's Bill Bennett Delta Wing Ski Kite. I believe the model number is 174, but will consider any kite for sale. Please contact me at: clnnews@aol.com Th...
Hello.
Does anybody knows anything about Aeros Harnesses and Parachutes ? It's from Ukraine.
...ed wings and produce lift the same as an airplane wing. the difference between the two is that todays hang gliders use battens in the upper and lower sails to hold their airfoil shape while paraglider...
...mall hills . Unfortunately that's about it, you can get dead real fast if you try to fly one of these gliders off a mountain I'm a hang 4 and do not advice anyone to use one of these gliders...
...rested in Harness and Chute. Can anyone help??????
: Thanks, : Reed
How much do you weigh and what gliders are you interested in? I have a few used gliders that I would part with. Ron Enck...
Justin,
There are many good, safe used gliders on the market. There are also many unsafe, junk gliders in the market. Ask the local hang gliding shop for their opinions of what to get and have the...
From my experience the Moyes Xtralite gliders belong in this category. This may be due to their highly cambered airfoils. The Super Xtralites and CSX gliders have different airfoils. Friends reported ...
... performance/competition glider made by ITV. This is definitely NOT a glider for a beginner. For more used gliders, check out Big Air Paragliding Virtual Market, you will find lots of used and new gli...
...ed due to its questionable aerodynamic characteristics.
There are many manufacturers of excellent hang gliders these days, and many good used gliders available. One builder is Wills Wing, www.wil...
...n DHV 2. It scored a 2 on six DHV tests and 1-2 on the rest. This glider has more 2s than most other DHV 2 gliders. Compared to a Firebird Flame which only received a 2 on three categories.
I will...
..., home is in Cornwall which as far as I can tell has good terrain for gliding. Though oddly I see very few gliders of either type around. However I study at Manchester University and though I know the...
I only fly gliders, not hang gliders, and usually fly by an audio vario in which the pitch of the tone relates to the strenght of the lift. After a single turn, i remember the change in tone through o...
...ontrol of where u are going and what u are doing up there?
You have the same amount of control in both gliders. A paraglider has a thinner envelope of conditions in which it can be flown safely (l...
...#039;re looking for a cheap way to fly, building is not the way to go. Legitimate airplane kits (including gliders) are not cheap. They also take hundreds of hours to build. The 'plans' you ...
Mars and Atlas Hanggliders are really good gliders for beginners. Of corse there are double surface gliders for beginners, but I do not see any advantage. They are heavier, and it takes more time to g...
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Surprised to hear you flogging this old bit of misinformation, Rod. They were called hang gliders because dear old Otto Lilienthal who made the first ones a hundren years ago, was a German, t...
Electra Flyer hang gliders were manufactured in Albuquerque New Mexico by Larry Newman, President of Electra Flyer, from 1975 to the early 80's I believe. There were a number of models from the e...
Does anyone know of any good links for classifieds for used hang gliders? Thanks, Mike.
Hi )) Is there anyone who know something about hang gliders with flaps ?? I heard that someone has built it. How ? For what ?
Why do gliders use ballast....does it reduce performance?
Adding ballast enables gliders to achieve best glide ratio at a higher
Learn to fly Hang Gliders young man!
the atlas and the gemini are also good beginner gliders. I would recommend the skyhawk over those two
Has any one out there flown a Saturn by Altair. If so, how would you compare it to other Rec. class gliders?
Reserve parachutes on para- and hang gliders are common. They're normally deployed with no pilot chute.
Frank Peel
...good old U.S of A but beleive me the sky is pretty bleedin' small when your mixing it with 20 odd Paragliders and another 10 to 15 hang gliders over Coombe Gibbet.
The 'Sky' is a la...
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