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In hopper ballooning the two principal commercial balloon manufacturers today offering hopper balloons for sale are Cameron Balloons and Lindstrand Balloons. | sport |
Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes. | sport |
Gliding uses naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. | sport |
The word soaring is also used for gliding. | sport |
Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s. | sport |
In gliding long distances are now flown using any of the main sources of rising air: ridge lift, thermals and lee waves. | sport |
In gliding when conditions are favourable experienced pilots can now fly hundreds of kilometres before returning to their home airfields. | sport |
In gliding occasionally flights of more than 1000 kilometres are achieved. | sport |
In gliding competitive pilots fly in races around pre defined courses. | sport |
The gliding competitions test pilots abilities to make best use of local weather conditions as well as their flying skills. | sport |
Local and national competitions are organized in many countries and there are biennial World Gliding Championships. | sport |
In gliding if the weather deteriorates pilots are sometimes unable to complete a cross country flight. | sport |
In gliding powered aircraft and winches are the two most common means of launching gliders. | sport |
Clubs and sometimes national gliding associations often have delegated authority. | sport |
These are usually provided by gliding clubs who also train new pilots and maintain high safety standards. | sport |
Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light non motorised foot launched heavier than air aircraft called a hang glider. | sport |
In hang gliding most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or composite frame covered with synthetic sailcloth to form a wing. | sport |
In hang gliding the pilot is in a harness suspended from the airframe and controls the aircraft by shifting body weight in opposition to a control frame. | sport |
In hang gliding early hang gliders had a low lift to drag ratio so pilots were restricted to gliding down small hills. | sport |
In hang gliding the lift to drag ratio had significantly improved by the 1980s. | sport |
The Federation Aeronautique Internationale and national airspace governing organisations control some regulatory aspects of hang gliding. | sport |
A human powered aircraft is an aircraft belonging to the class of vehicles known as human powered transport. | sport |
A human powered aircraft has been successfully flown over considerable distances. | sport |
The human powered aircraft are still primarily constructed as engineering challenges rather than for any kind of recreational or utilitarian purpose. | sport |
Parachuting is a way of transiting from a high point in the atmosphere to the surface of Earth with the aid of gravity. | sport |
Parachuting involves the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or parachutes. | sport |
Parachuting including also skydiving. | sport |
For human skydiving it may involve a phase of more or less free falling or the skydiving segment. | sport |
For cargo parachuting the parachute descent may begin immediately. | sport |
BASE jumping is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects using a parachute to descend safely to the ground. | sport |
BASE jumping participants exit from a fixed object such as a cliff and after an optional freefall delay deploy a parachute to slow their descent and land. | sport |
A popular form of BASE jumping is wingsuit BASE jumping. | sport |
In contrast to other forms of parachuting such as skydiving from airplanes the BASE jumps are performed from fixed objects. | sport |
In BASE jumping the fixed objects are generally at much lower altitudes and BASE jumpers only carry one parachute. | sport |
The BASE jumping is significantly more hazardous than other forms of parachuting. | sport |
The BASE jumping is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous extreme sports. | sport |
Carl Boenish was an important catalyst behind modern BASE jumping. | sport |
Specialized equipment and techniques were developed specifically for the unique needs of BASE jumping. | sport |
Sky surfing is a type of skydiving and extreme sport in which the skydiver wears a custom skysurf board attached to the feet and performs surfing style aerobatics during freefall. | sport |
In sky surfing the boards used are generally smaller than actual surfboards and look more like snowboards or large skateboards. | sport |
Even with the bandage technique many techniques in skysurfing can be extremely painful and result in temporary paralysis of fingers along with subconjunctival bleeding. | sport |
The competitive discipline of skysurfing is a team sport consisting of a skysurfer and a camera flyer with a video camera. | sport |
The rise of skysurfing coincided with other new age disciplines in skydiving such as freestyle and freeflying. | sport |
After performing standing on a surfboard for a skysurfing advertisement of Coca Cola. | sport |
Skysurfing reached its peak in popularity during the mid to late 1990s. | sport |
A number of movie studios included skysurfing in action sequences such as Silver Surfer. | sport |
Ralph Lauren created a fragrance brand Extreme Polo Sport based on imagery of skysurfing. | sport |
Competitive team skysurfing was prominent during the late 1990s with most notable being ESPN X Games and FAI World Air Games 1997. | sport |
The hazards associated with skysurfing are mainly due to loss of control inducing flat spins where the head is outside of the center of the spinning body. | sport |
The skill experience and time required to master skysurfing led to a decline in the popularity in the skydiving community. | sport |
A presentation of the History and Future of skysurfing was made at the British Parachute Association. | sport |
Boards Over Europe and Sky surfing World Cup and Skysurfing World Championships. | sport |
In 2000 ABC Wide World of Sports chose Skysurfing from the XGames to cover due to its attractive television format. | sport |
Ultralight aviation or microlight aviation is the flying of lightweight 1 or 2 seat fixed wing aircraft. | sport |
Ultralight aviation is represented by the United States Ultralight Association. | sport |
Powered paragliding or paramotoring or PPG is a form of ultralight aviation. | sport |
Powered paragliding is where the pilot wears a back pack motor or paramotor which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider. | sport |
In many countries powered paragliding is minimally regulated and requires no license. | sport |
Powered paragliding has seen some military application including insertion of special forces soldiers and also border patrol in some governments. | sport |
Regardless of regulations Powered paragliding can be dangerous when practiced without proper training. | sport |
In the US the powered paragliding is represented primarily by the US Powered Paragliding Association. | sport |
Wingsuit flying or wingsuiting is the sport of skydiving using a webbing sleeved jumpsuit called a wingsuit to add webbed area to the divers body. | sport |
The wingsuit flier wears parachuting equipment specially designed for skydiving or BASE jumping. | sport |
An early attempt at wingsuit flying was made on 4 February 1912 by a 33 year old tailor named Franz Reichelt. | sport |
Within wingsuit flying are many sub disciplines including acrobatic flying, performance flying and wingsuit BASE jumping. | sport |
On 20 and 21 April 2012 Colombian skydiver Jhonathan Florez set Guinness World Records in wingsuit flying. | sport |
List of fatalities due to wingsuit flying. | sport |
This makes aircraft descending a much less deadly form of wingsuit flying though deemed less extreme by fans of the sport. | sport |
Some concerns regarding the nature of wingsuit flying exist due to injuries and death. | sport |
The French government banned wingsuit flying multiple times following the deaths of French pilots. | sport |
Keep Away also called Monkey in the Middle, Piggy in the Middle, Pickle in a Dish or Pickle in the Middle or Monkey is a children game. | sport |
Keep Away is a children game in which two or more players must pass a ball to one another while a player in the middle attempts to intercept it. | sport |
Keep Away could be considered a reverse form of circle dodgeball. | sport |
Keep Away is played worldwide. | sport |
Keep Away is played by drawing a circle on the ground about 10 feet in diameter. | sport |
While the name Keep Away is self explanatory the origin of some of the other titles are less clear. | sport |
Adrian reveals that he played a lot of Keep Away in middle school. | sport |
Angelica Pickles plays Keep Away with the babies using a bottle of chocolate milk to pass from baby to baby. | sport |
Tony tries to convince Riff to call off the rumble by playing Keep Away with the latter newly bought gun. | sport |
Kin Ball is a team sport created in Quebec Canada in 1986 by Mario Demers a physical education professor. | sport |
The International Kin Ball Federation counts 3.8 million Kin Ball participants. | sport |
The official Kin Ball team colours are black, grey and blue and sometimes pink is used instead of blue. | sport |
If the Defending Team is able to control the Kin Ball successfully it becomes the Attacking Team. | sport |
A Kin Ball Game is usually played until one team has won three periods. | sport |
Newcomb ball also known simply as Newcomb and sometimes spelled Newcombe. | sport |
Newcomb ball is a ball game played in a gymnasium or court using two opposing teams and a net. | sport |
Newcomb ball and the sport of volleyball were both created in 1895 and are similar in their design. | sport |
Newcomb ball rivaled volleyball in popularity and participation by the 1920s. | sport |
The sport of throwball may be a possible relative. | sport |
Newcomb ball was invented in 1895 by Clara Baer a physical education instructor at Sophie Newcomb College Tulane University in New Orleans. | sport |
Newcomb ball is one of a rare number of sports which have been created by women and is of historical significance in American sport. | sport |
Newcomb ball is the second team sport to be played there by women after basketball. | sport |
Newcomb ball may have preceded the creation of volleyball and may have influenced its development. | sport |
Newcomb ball was first publicised in an article by Baer in the Posse Gymnasium Journal where the name Newcomb was first coined. | sport |
Baer first officially published a description of Newcomb ball in 1895 together with the first book of rules for women basketball. | sport |
Originally Newcomb ball involved two teams placed facing each other in a small gymnasium. | sport |
Today Newcomb ball is not widely played on a competitive basis. | sport |
Today Newcomb ball remains a popular game for people with limited athletic ability or those with certain disabilities. | sport |
Today Newcomb ball remains popular as a simple introduction to volleyball. | sport |
Today Newcomb ball is popularized in many northern New England summer camps such as Windham Tolland 4H camp in Connecticut. | sport |
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