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Aerokurier
aerokurier is a monthly magazine founded in 1957 covering international civil aviation published in German.
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Airspace
Airspace is the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the atmosphere.
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Aston Down
Aston Down is in Gloucestershire, South West England, east of Minchinhampton, southeast of Stroud and west of Cirencester.
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Barograph
A barograph is a barometer that records the barometric pressure over time.
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Barron Hilton Cup
The Barron Hilton Cup (BHC) was a worldwide soaring contest, founded by Barron Hilton, the now retired chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hilton Hotels Corporation, and the late Prof.
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Competition aerobatics
Competition aerobatics is an air sport in which judges rate the skill of pilots performing aerobatic flying.
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European Gliding Championships
The European Gliding Championships is a gliding competition held every two years.
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FAI Gliding Commission
The International Gliding Commission (IGC) is the international governing body for the sport of gliding.
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Glider (sailplane)
A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding.
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Glider competition classes
Competition classes in gliding, as in other sports, mainly exist to ensure fairness in competition.
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Gliding
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.
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Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.
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Grand Prix gliding
FAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championships are gliding competitions promoted by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) for gliders that are both more spectacular and more easily understood by the public than conventional gliding competitions.
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Handicapping
Handicapping, in sport and games, is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantage given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning.
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Horizontal convective rolls
Horizontal convective rolls, also known as horizontal roll vortices or cloud streets, are long rolls of counter-rotating air that are oriented approximately parallel to the ground in the planetary boundary layer.
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Lift (soaring)
Lift is a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by soaring aircraft and soaring birds.
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Ridge lift
Ridge lift (or 'slope lift') is created when a wind strikes an obstacle, usually a mountain ridge or cliff, that is large and steep enough to deflect the wind upward.
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Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-3
The Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 3 is a glider built by Schempp-Hirth.
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Thermal
A thermal column (or thermal) is a column of rising air in the lower altitudes of Earth's atmosphere, a form of atmospheric updraft.
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World Air Games
The FAI World Air Games (WAG) is an international air sports event organized by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (World Air Sports Federation - FAI), inspired by the Olympic Games.
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World Gliding Championships
The World Gliding Championships (WGC) is a gliding competition held every two years or so by the FAI Gliding Commission.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliding_competition
