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  2. Gliding - Wikipedia

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    In the 1930s, gliding spread to many other countries. In the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin gliding was a demonstration sport, and it was scheduled to be a full Olympic sport in the 1940 Games. [9]: 148 A glider, the Olympia, was developed in Germany for the event, but World War II intervened. By 1939 the major gliding records were held by ...

  3. Glossary of gliding and soaring - Wikipedia

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    Junior World Gliding Championships [1] knot A unit of speed. While the knot is commonly used in aviation and other contexts as an abbreviation of nautical miles per hour, in soaring the knot is also used to describe lift (and sink conditions). Using approximations, one knot of upward velocity in a thermal equates to roughly 100 feet per minute ...

  4. Flying and gliding animals - Wikipedia

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    Globally, smaller gliding species tend to have feather-like tails and larger species have fur covered round bushy tails, [10] but smaller animals tend to rely on parachuting rather than developing gliding membranes. [9] The gliding membranes, patagium, are classified in the 4 groups of propatagium, digipatagium, plagiopatagium and uropatagium ...

  5. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    gliding, glossing: A sweeping glide from one pitch to another used for dramatic effect Legato: tied: A series of notes played with a smooth connection between them Col legno: with the wood: Calls for a bowed instrument's strings to be struck with the wood of the bow (rather than drawn across with the hair of the bow). Martellato: hammered

  6. Gliding flight - Wikipedia

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    Gliding flight is heavier-than-air flight without the use of thrust; the term volplaning also refers to this mode of flight in animals. [1] It is employed by gliding animals and by aircraft such as gliders .

  7. Paragliding - Wikipedia

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    An idling (gliding) Cessna 152 light aircraft will achieve 9:1. Some sailplanes can achieve a glide ratio of up to 72:1. The speed range of paragliders is typically 22–55 kilometres per hour (14–34 mph), from stall speed to maximum speed.

  8. Glissando - Wikipedia

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    In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (Play ⓘ).It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, "to glide".

  9. Glider (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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    Single-seat high performance fiberglass Glaser-Dirks DG-808 glider Aerobatic glider with tip smoke, pictured on July 2, 2005, in Lappeenranta, Finland. A glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine. [1]