Keeping their distance
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.
This paraglider started near the old castle of Kallmünz (background), a picturesque village located at the confluence of Naab and Vils in the Upper Palatinate.
© Rainer Merkl
Keeping their distance
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.
This paraglider started near the old castle of Kallmünz (background), a picturesque village located at the confluence of Naab and Vils in the Upper Palatinate.
© Rainer Merkl