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  2. 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]

  3. Glider (sailplane) - Wikipedia

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    Rolladen-Schneider LS4 (video) A glider sails over Gunma, Japan. A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding (also called soaring). [1] [2] This unpowered aircraft can use naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to gain altitude. Sailplanes are aerodynamically ...

  4. LET L-13 Blaník - Wikipedia

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    The L-13 Blaník was designed by Karel Dlouhý of VZLÚ Letňany c. 1956, building upon the experience gained with the Letov XLF-207 Laminar, the first Czech glider to employ laminar flow wing profiles. The L-13 was developed as a practical glider suitable for basic flight instruction, aerobatic instruction and cross-country training.

  5. Flight suit - Wikipedia

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    A flight suit worn in 1925 A British WWII crewman in full flightsuit (with aerial camera) East German National People's Army flight suit, 1962–1978. As aviation developed in unheated open cockpits, the need for warm clothing quickly became apparent, as did the need for multiple pockets with closures of buttons, snaps, or zippers to prevent loss of articles during maneuvers.

  6. Gliding - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Speed flying and speed riding - Wikipedia

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    The wing itself is known as a speed glider, speed wing, or speed flyer. It has similar materials to paraglider canopies and to parachute lines (with a ripstop nylon fabric wing, treated with a polyurethane or silicon coating, Kevlar or Dyneema lines protected by an outer sheath, and Mylar reinforcement on the cell openings at the leading edge).

  8. Glider - Wikipedia

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    Glider (band), a band featuring members of Counting Crows; Maple Glider, stage name of Australian pop singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch (fl. 2017–present) Glider (The Sight Below album), 2008; Glider (Tokio album) or the title song, 2003; Glider or the title song, by My Bloody Valentine, 1990 "Glider" (Boyfriend song), 2016

  9. Schleicher K 8 - Wikipedia

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    A motor glider conversion of the K 8B was developed by LVD (the Flying Training School of the Detmold Aero Club) similar to their conversion of a Scheibe Bergfalke IV known as the BF IV-BIMO, in which a Lloyd LS-400 piston engine mounted in the fuselage drives a pair of small two-blade pusher propellers rotating within cutouts in each wing near the trailing edge.

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