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  • Regarding the parachute, even in ordinary flight, a ram-air parachute (for para-gliding) is the lightest, and least expensive "aircraft" there is.

    Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch 2009

  • In addition, adventure tourism like river rafting and para-gliding has a great scope in Kishtwar and Bhaderwah adding that water sports clubs would be set up in Dul Hasti and Pull Doda.

    Jammu,Kashmir & Ladakh be promoted with their unique distinctiveness on world tourism canvas 2009

  • Then Aamir goes on to talk about his healing injury and how he would love to learn para-gliding when he recovers.

    ���Shahrukh is licking my feet���- Aamir 2008

  • It's at the bottom of some steep bluffs, so you can either take a very sloped, but paved road, or you can walk out to the para-gliding center and clamber down a crumbling, rocky set of stairs that make you feel like you're Indiana Jones.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Megan Kurashige 2008

  • It's at the bottom of some steep bluffs, so you can either take a very sloped, but paved road, or you can walk out to the para-gliding center and clamber down a crumbling, rocky set of stairs that make you feel like you're Indiana Jones.

    beneath the cliffs of doom Megan Kurashige 2008

  • In tourism it can offer the entire kaleidoscope of Himalayan and Gangetic Geology, including trekking, mountain climbing, rafting, para-gliding, river camping, wildlife sanctuaries etc.

    The Question(s) of Gorkhaland by Barun Roy 2008

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was para-gliding until he came over and hit the wires, spun around the wires.

    CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2002 2002

  • Other shots show the couple para-gliding, scuba diving and lounging in luxury hotels.

    NY Daily News LARRY McSHANE 2011

  • A physical-fitness freak who once climbed Mount Everest, he said he used marijuana as a painkiller after a serious para-gliding accident five years ago.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • India after acquiring para-gliding equipments, and were also plotting to target an Indian Delhi.

    WN.com - Articles related to American national detained at Delhi airport 2010

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