Lift types
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| Ridge |
| Thermal |
| Orographic |
| Thermals with sharp edges My favorite kind of lift is thermals with sharp edges, where you know when you hit it and you know when you fall out of it even without that beautiful beep beep beep of the vario . Mark Evans |
| Hot exhaust gases from industrial regions can be poisonous. |
| Specialize lifts: 8 minute
video clip with Carl Boenish (RIP)- skydive
and hang glider HGCamera specialist. and pioneer base jumper. Video shows
some roots of the lift of banners and curtains and wings for skydivers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N--qHBEOEY8 Skydivers, 1969. Two years later Carl would show up many times in Low & Slow office. Extracts from a short promotional film on the making of the 1969 movie The Gypsy Moths. stunning freefall footage from cameraman Carl Boenish, who worked with a giant helmet-mounted film camera. Neil Larson |
| Artificial winds. Battery of fans. Simulators. |
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Extreme
Performance flying wing – Click each left link there. See the photos and notes on the Utopia hang glider made by Bright Star Gliders and flown by Brian Porter. |
| Exulans |
| Hydrogen and helium buoyancy lift. Hang glider that reduce their weight with buoyant chambers holding lighter-than-air gases is a class of hang gliders that is being developed. |
Trike flying in
several species:
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| Towers with rotating hangs |
| CAGE paragliding |
| http://www.seekextreme.com/images/fusion-man-jet-wing.jpg Jet Wing. Power-off, pilot is hung sturdily beneath the wing. Fusion Man |
| MagGenn Rotor Kite |
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The copy
at YouTube: The Boston Globe Video Story on the Personal Blimp We have both a (2.3 MB) hi-res movie or a (350 KB) low-res movie of the first 360 turn executed by the airship Alberto. |
| Air in front of large ocean waves |
| Pulse wave in front of large ships |
| Ground fires rising gases |
| Vortex edge |
| Gust edge |
| Wonder wind |
| Mechanical |
| Ski-resort chair lifts are sometimes used to give lift to hang gliders. The 2009 Sun Peaks Canadian National Hang Gliding sanctioned event will use this sort of lift. |
