Gliding
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gliding-188-19091501
title:
Gliding
text:
Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport. Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s. Initially the objective was to increase the duration of flights but soon pilots attempted cross-country flights away from the place of launch. Improvements in aerodynamics and in the understanding o
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Recreational activity and competitive air sport
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliding
date created:
2001-09-26T03:16:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T05:30:55Z
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