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To: rocky50

I tried it AFTER I had a pilots license.

For those who have no previous concept of angle of attack, lift vs. drag, and stalls, it’s madness to try to hang glide without some previous instruction in the basics of how a wing works.

This guy doesn’t have a clue, from the very short interval between departure and arrival.


5 posted on 01/22/2013 8:36:56 PM PST by Tigerized ("..and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em!' cried the Toad in ecstasy." (continuing in 2013))
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To: Tigerized
For those who have no previous concept of angle of attack, lift vs. drag, and stalls, it’s madness to try to hang glide without some previous instruction in the basics of how a wing works.

I have never done it, but I know you must push the bar away from you to raise the nose. And I know that it would be difficult to push so much that it would stall a hang glider. Even a neophyte could watch it again and see this person kept their arms bent at the elbows while not even grasping the horizontal bar.

12 posted on 01/22/2013 10:29:39 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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