Air sports that use unpowered or lightly powered craft, such as gliders, paragliders and hang gliders. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the mode a recreational or competitive air sport or flight activity. It excludes commercial aviation and spaceflight. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Gliding
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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.
Wikipedia: Paragliding
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Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.
Hang gliding (Wikipedia)
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Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised, fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider.
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