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For those who jump out of perfectly good airplanes.



http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/hara/fly.swf

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Calif Bill wrote:
For those who jump out of perfectly good airplanes.



http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/hara/fly.swf



That's one of them fancy European slope soaring things,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope_soaring.

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Calif Bill wrote:
For those who jump out of perfectly good airplanes.



http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/hara/fly.swf



That's one of them fancy European slope soaring things,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope_soaring.

We watched them paragliding in the Cinqua Terre. Actually looked fairly
easy.

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:20:42 -0400, BAR wrote:


That's one of them fancy European slope soaring things,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope_soaring.

They run the Appalachians quite a bit with gliders. IIRC, they set a
record something around 1000 miles. The guy started in Pennsylvania went
down to Tennessee, and returned.