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Paper airplanes are fun and simple for all ages. Paper airplanes can be made in five easy steps. Start by folding a piece of paper in half vertically.
A simple folded paper plane Folding instructions for a traditional paper dart. A paper plane (also known as a paper airplane or paper dart in American English, or paper aeroplane in British English) is a toy aircraft, usually a glider, made out of single folded sheet of paper or paperboard.
Examples of soaring flight by birds are the use of: Thermals and convergences by raptors such as vultures; Ridge lift by gulls near cliffs; Wave lift by migrating birds [32] Dynamic effects near the surface of the sea by albatrosses; For humans, soaring is the basis for three air sports: gliding, hang gliding and paragliding.
Pennycuick [1] divides animal flight into three types: parachuting, gliding and powered. He observes however that these have no sharp boundaries. For example, at one point he sees parachutes as unpowered and as a primitive form of soaring, while soaring itself he sees as being powered by air movement (wind).
Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport [1] in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne.
Soaring may refer to: Gliding, in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes; Lift (soaring), a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by some aircraft and birds; Soaring, a magazine produced by the Soaring Society of America; SOARING, a public artwork at Alverno College; List of soaring birds
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The aircraft was designed and built by a team led by Paul B. MacCready, a noted American aeronautics engineer, designer, and world soaring champion. Gossamer Albatross was his second human-powered aircraft, the first being the Gossamer Condor, which had won the first Kremer prize on August 23, 1977, by completing a 1-mile (1.6 km)-long figure-eight course.