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AERO SPORTS

Bungee Jumping----Page 3

Hang Gliding----Page 4

Hot - air Ballooing----Page 5

Microlite Flying----Page 6

Parasailing----Page 7

Paragliding----Page 8

Sky diving / Parachuting----Page 9

Bungee Jumping is an activity that involves jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot-air-balloon or helicopter, that has the ability to hover over one spot on the ground; fixed-wing aircraft are unsuitable because they only stay aloft when moving rapidly forward.The thrill comes as much from the free-falling as from the rebounds.

When the person jumps, the cord stretches to absorb the energy of the fall, then the jumper flies upwards again as the cord snaps back. The jumper oscillates up and down until all the energy is used up.

History Of Bungee Jumping

The word bungee first appeared around 1930 and was the name for a rubber eraser. The word bungy, as used by A J Hackett, is said to be "Kiwi slang for an Elastic Strap". Cloth-covered rubber cords with hooks on the ends have been available for decades under the generic name bungee cords.

In the 1950s David Attenborough and a BBC film crew brought back footage of the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, young men who jumped from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of courage.

The Guinness Book of World Records

states the highest commercial bungee jump is off of the Bloukrans River Bridge (Picture on right), 40 kilometres east of Plettenberg Bay in South Africa. This jump takes place from a platform below the roadway of the bridge, and the height from the platform to the valley floor is 216 metres (710 ft).

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Hang Gliding is one of the simplest and most natural forms of human flight. Hang Gliders are aluminum and nylon wings which are launched by foot off of high objects like cliffs. Pilots are suspended off the glider and control the glider by shifting weight from side to side.

As they glide much like a bird, they utilize air currents and other techniques to stay elevated, many times for over 3 hours! It is a truly exhilarating experience because of the height, speed, and beautiful views.

History of Hang Gliding

Hang gliding is often confused with paragliding, though the two sports are quite different from one another.

Hang gliding and paragliding have a rich and distinguished history spanning more than 120 years of personal flight. The early pioneers of hang gliding, starting with Otto Lilienthal, were key to the development of heavier-than-air aviation. It was they who first investigated and quantified the aerodynamics of lifting surfaces. It was they who developed an understanding of the air and risked life, limb, reputation and fortune in order to help make the dream of human flight a reality.



History of Hot air Ballooning

Premodern Balloon

A Kongming lantern is one of the oldest type of hot air balloon.Unmanned hot air balloons are popular in Chinese history. Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han kingdom, in the Three Kingdoms era, used airborne lanterns for military signaling. These lanterns are known as Kongming lanterns.There is also some speculation that hot air balloons could have been used by the Nazca culture of Peru some 1500 years ago, as a tool for designing the famous Nazca ground figures and lines.

First recorded manned balloon flight

The first clearly recorded instances of balloons capable of carrying passengers used hot air to obtain buoyancy and were built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France.



Hot air ballooning is to rise up in the air and travel distances with the help of balloon filled with hot air. The flier sits in a basket or a gondola suspended beneath the hot air balloon. It consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing heated air.

Suspended beneath is the gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule) which carries the passengers and a source of heat.



Microlites are very light airplanes, either single-seat or dual seat, and the licensing regulations for both pilots and aircraft are less stringent than for conventional light aircraft. The low stall speeds and weights mean that, while crashes may be more frequent, they are usually less painful!

The aircraft are also a lot cheaper, and you fly slowly enough to appreciate the scenery.

History

The world of Microliteing has advanced so much over the last 15-20 years that it has become the most affordable and safest form of motorised flight in the UK.

Trikes first appeared in the late 1970s when hang gliders evolved from primitive delta wings to efficient flying wings with higher aspect ratios, defined airfoils, and wing twist providing stability and performance. The wings have evolved over 25 years along with hang glider wings to be highly refined performance machines. Trikes have been certificated to strict government standards in Europe and Australia.

Parasailing, also known as parascending, is a recreational activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat or a tow jeep) while attached to a specially designed parachute, known as a parasail. The boat then drives off, carrying the parascender into the air.

The parascender has little or no control over the parachute.

History of Parasailing

The first Parasails were developed by Pierre-Marcel Lemoigne in 1961. Lemoigne is a well known developer of ParaCommander-type of parachutes known as "ParaCommander" or PC-canopies. The date of the first towing of a parasail is not known, but one of the first mentions is a flight by Colonel Michel Tournier from France flying behind a tractor in the same year - 1961. In 1963 Jacques-André Istel from Pioneer Parachute Company bought a licence from Lemoigne to manufacture and sell the invention with a name "parasail".

Brian Gaskin, the founder of Waterbird, created some of the first parasails after experimenting with ex-military parachutes in the late 60's. In 1974 he created the first true parasail which he named "Waterbird". Nearly all commercial parasails in operation today were derived from Gaskin's original "Waterbird" design. In 1975 Gaskin founded his company "Waterbird Parakites" which is still in operation today, producing commercial and recreational parasails in the UK.



Paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying

sport. A paraglider is a free-flying, foot-launched aircraft.

The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric

wing, whose shape is formed by the pressure of air

entering vents in the front of the wing.



History of Paragliding

In 1954, Walter Neumark predicted (in an article in Flight magazine) a time when a glider pilot would be "able to launch himself by running over the edge of a cliff or down a slope … whether on a rock-climbing holiday in Skye or ski-ing in the Alps".

In 1961, the French engineer Pierre Lemoigne produced improved parachute designs which led to the Para-Commander ('PC'), which had cut-outs at the rear and sides which enabled it to be towed in to the a i r and s teered leading to parasailing/parascending. Sometimes credited with the greatest development in parachutes since Leonardo da Vinci, the American Domina Jalbert invented in 1964 the Parafoil which had sectioned cells in an aerofoil shape; an open leading edge and a closed trailing edge, inflated by passage through the air the ram-air design.

History of Ski diving

The history of parachuting is not clear. It's known that Andre-Jacques Garnerin made successful parachute jumps from a hot-air balloon in 1797.

The military developed parachuting technology first as a way to save aircrews from emergencies aboard balloons and aircraft in flight; and later as a way of delivering soldiers to the battlefield. Early competitions date back to the 1930s, and it became an international sport in 1951.

Today it is performed as a recreational activity and a competitive sport, as well as for the deployment of military personnel Airborne forces and occasionally forest firefighters.



Sky diving, also known as Parachuting is an activity involving a preplanned drop from a height (usually in a plane) using a deployable parachute.



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