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Switzerland`s Martina Schild put down an error-free run while the favorites faltered to claim the season-opening super-G and her first career World Cup race win on Sunday. Schild, the 2006 Olympic downhill silver medalist, charged her way down the men`s O
Hang gliding
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Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminum or composite-framed fabric wing. Pilots usually control the aircraft by shifting body weight, but other devices, including modern aircraft flight control systems, may be used. The pilot wears a harness and is hung beneath a lifting wing by flexible straps.
In the sport's early days, pilots were restricted to gliding down small hills on low-performance hang gliders. However, modern technology gives pilots the ability to soar for hours, gain thousands of feet of altitude in thermal updrafts, perform aerobatics, and fly cross-country over large distances. The F?d?ration A?ronautique Internationale and national airspace governing organizations control some aspects of hang gliding.
