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paraglider

n. 1 One who paraglides. 2 A lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure, wherein the pilot sits in a harness suspended below a hollow fabric wing whose shape is formed by its suspension lines, the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing and the aerodynamic forces of the air flowing over the outside. 3 # The complete equipment used for paragliding, consisting of a paraglider wing and a harness. 4 # The wing used for paragliding, which can be separated from the harness.

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Sisko turned back to the mob, jabbing his finger at Asta-ha, then rotating to include all the Tiffnakis in the admonition: "And there shall be no use of force beams, parachutes, paragliders, or antigravitational devices of any sort.

DefCon has confirmed two paraglider landfall near eastern perimeter.

Getting prisoners would take special measures, and paragliders seemed the best bet.

Division's umpires had given B Company's paragliders a grade of "very good.

They launch their paragliders from the high structures, catching ridge lift from the great rock walls, crossing the wide spaces between the ridges and peaks where there are no cables or bridges, watching the birds, looking for thermals as if their lives depended on it .

Endymion, but the paragliders can be purchased here at the marketplace.

The white wings of their paragliders immediately expanded to a span of six meters, stable and graceful.

Boeing had all sorts of ideas for reducing the costs of the Saturn V system, for instance by adding strap-on reusable rockets to it, and even making the S-IC itself recoverable, including wings, parachutes, hydrogen-filled balloons, drag brakes, paragliders, and rotary systems of spinning parachutes.