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Hondarribia, the Spanish-Basque border town where the X-Pyr race starts. The X-Pyr is an international multi-day "hike-and-fly" paragliding endurance race. The competition route traverses the Pyrenees mountain range from west to east, starting near Hondarribia, Spain, on the Bay of Biscay and finishing near the France-Spain border along the Mediterranean Sea.
They may fly freely, race through floating rings against a timer or take lessons from a virtual flight instructor. The instructor teaches basic and advanced techniques, ranging from rudder turns to maneuvers such as the tailslide, Lomcovák and Immelmann turn. Flight Unlimited was the first self-published game released by Looking Glass ...
Race Through the Skies: The Week the World Learned to Fly is a 2020 non-fiction children's book by the American writer and historian Martin W. Sandler.The book focuses on a single week in August 1908 that "introduced aviation to the world", [1] the week of an early air show and competition in Reims.
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The Red Bull Air Race is featured as a playable mini-game in a special dedicated "Red Bull space" for PlayStation Home released on 8 January 2009. [22] The Red Bull Air Race is also featured as an advanced mission in Microsoft's Flight Simulator X. Additional racing missions and courses were included as part of 2007's Acceleration expansion pack.
Control Tower during the 2016 National Championship Air Races Pylon Racing Seminar Static aircraft on display at the 2014 Reno Air Races. Beginning in 1964, the Reno Air Races feature multi-lap, multi-aircraft races among extremely high performance aircraft on closed ovoid courses which range between about 3 miles (4.8 km) (Biplanes and Formula One) and about 8 miles (13 km) (Jet, Unlimited ...
The most important factors influencing the overall speed at which glider can fly around a given course is the average strength of the rising air the pilot chooses for climbing and the directness of the route chosen around the course (no credit is given for deviations, but a detour to reach stronger lift can often more than make up in speed for ...
A BOAT RACE (kyōtei) course at Suminoe, Osaka. Edogawa BOAT RACE BOAT RACE competitors fly around the corner at Suminoe. A large clock is used to count down to the start of each race. A night BOAT RACE at Suminoe. The Kyōtei (競艇), literally "boat racing" and referred to as BOAT RACE, [1] is a runabout racing event primary held in Japan.