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    Submitted by anthonypatt on April 10, 2006 - 10:51pm.

    This looks amazing, and I can't wait for next winter. Three questions:

    How do these wings behave in open air? Let's say you fly off a nice cliff, and get pretty far away from the slope. What kind of stuff can you do in the air? Is there anyway to slow them down to a reasonable crash speed, in case you realize you don't have a place to ski in to land?

    Are these wings bombproof, so that even in rotor they behave nicely?

    I found this website because Chiemsee Flugschule offered instruction in Speed Gliding. What would they teach me? I am a competition paraglider pilot, a constant free rider (telemarker, actually), and I have a brain.

    Come to think of it, has anyone done this on teleskis? I am trying to think if that would be a problem.

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    Submitted by kitesurfa on April 11, 2006 - 2:31am.

    How do these wings behave in open air? Let's say you fly off a nice cliff, and get pretty far away from the slope. What kind of stuff can you do in the air?

    An idea of what could be done - check this out... Eye-wink
    François BON 2004 video

    the section to watch is from 4min 30sec.

    The wing (Kite) used is an Aerodyne 11m² Wombat - not a Speed Flying glider. It is the same wing as in the Kite-running video. Not sure how the Nano or other Speed gliders would handle doing this as I don't think they are designed for Acro... ?

    From watching all the videos posted, I think they should be able to do most of the basic paraglider/sky-diving moves ?

    Posted 7 months ago #

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