►Paragliding in Nepal ❙ Amazing Paragliding in Pokhara-Nepal✓

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Paragliding in Nepal Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric wing comprising a large number of interconnected baffled cells. Wing shape is maintained by the 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. Despite not using an engine, paragliders flight can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometers, though flights of one to two hours and covering some tens of kilometers are more the norm. By skillful exploitation of sources of lift, the pilot may gain height, often climbing to altitudes of a few thousand meters. History In 1952, Domina C. Jalbert advanced governable gliding parachutes with multi-cells and controls for lateral glide. In 1954, Walter Neumark predicted (in an article in Flight magazine) a time when a glider pilot would be "able to launch himself by running over the edge of a cliff or down a slope ... whether on a rock-climbing holiday in Skye or ski-ing in the Alps." In 1961, the French engineer Pierre Lemoigne produced improved parachute designs that led to the Para-Commander. The PC had cutouts at the rear and sides that enabled it to be towed into the air and steered – leading to parasailing/parascending. Canadian Domina Jalbert invented the Parafoil, which had sectioned cells in an aerofoil shape; an open leading edge and a closed trailing edge, inflated by passage through the air – the ram-air design. He filed US Patent 3131894 on January 10, 1963. About that same time, David Barish was developing the "sail wing" (single-surface wing) for recovery of NASA space capsules – "slope soaring was a way of testing out ... the Sail Wing." After tests on Hunter Mountain, New York, in September 1965, he went on to promote slope soaring as a summer activity for ski resorts. Author Walter Neumark wrote Operating Procedures for Ascending Parachutes, and he and a group of enthusiasts with a passion for tow-launching PCs and ram-air parachutes eventually broke away from the British Parachute Association to form the British Association of Parascending Clubs (BAPC) in 1973. Authors Patrick Gilligan (Canada) and Bertrand Dubuis (Switzerland) wrote the first flight manual, The Paragliding Manual in 1985, officially coining the word paragliding. These developments were combined in June 1978 by three friends, Jean-Claude Bétemps, André Bohn and Gérard Bosson, from Mieussy, Haute-Savoie, France. After inspiration from an article on slope soaring in the Parachute Manual magazine by parachutist and publisher Dan Poynter,they calculated that on a suitable slope, a "square" ram-air parachute could be inflated by running down the slope; Bétemps launched from Pointe du Pertuiset, Mieussy, and flew 100 m. World records FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) world records: • Straight Distance (preliminary claim) - 564.3 km (350.6 mi): Donizete Baldessar Lemos (Brazil), Rafael Monteiro Saladini (Brazil) and Samuel Nascimento (Brazil); Tacima (Brazil) - Paraíba (Brasilien) - 13 October 2016 • Straight distance (ratified) – 514 km (319 mi): Frank Brown (Brazil); Tacima (Brazil) - Monsenhor Tabosa (Brazil) - 8 October 2015 • Straight distance to declared goal – 411.3 km (255.6 mi): Nevil Hulett (South Africa); Copperton, South Africa – Lesotho; 14 December 2008. • Previous Straight distance to declared goal – 368.9 km (229.2 mi): Aljaž Valič, Urban Valič (Slovenia); Vosburg – Jamestown (South Africa); 7 December 2006 • Gain of height – 4,526 m (14,849 ft): Robbie Whittall (UK); Brandvlei (South Africa); 6 January 1993 • Farthest flight(female)- 336 km (208 mi): Seiko Fukoaka-Naville (Japan); Quxadá (Brazil) - 20 November 2012. National Organizations • United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (USPHA) - United States • British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (BHPA) - UK • Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada (HPAC) - Canada • Deutscher Hängegleiter Verband (eng. "german hang gliding association"; DHV) - Germany (largest national organization with 35,000 members) some tags : blue sky paragliding pokhara-nepal,sunrise paragliding,paragliding course Nepal,frontiers paragliding,team 5 nepal paragliding pokhara Nepal,paragliding license Nepal,pokhara paragliding accident,paragliding in Kathmandu,speedflying,speedriding,Parahawking,paragliding,parahawk,scott,mason,egyptian Source link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragliding Join Our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/internationaltravellers.bd Join Our Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/111407882421327593617 Please SUBSCRIBE Our Channel Like, Comment, Share and SUBSCRIBE 