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Purple Haze
Paragliding School
Shoreham Airport
West Sussex
BN43 5FF
Tel 01903 879241
e mail
info@airsports.co.uk

 

THE SPORT
Foot-launch paragliding is the purest, simplest and easiest form of aviation, the original dream of personal flight and the fastest growing airsport in the world. This exciting sport is accessible to anyone from the age of 16.

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The attraction is the portability. Your canopy weighs very little, fits into a small rucksack and can be taken to sites all over the world, from the Alps in Europe to mountains in Asia, or if there is a site near you, fly in your lunch break.

A paraglider is a ram air canopy in the shape of an airfoil and as air flows over the surface it generates lift while also inflating the canopy through the openings at the front. The wing is always falling down and forwards relative to the airmass so if you take off from a hill where the air is deflected upwards and it is going up faster than you are coming down you will go up and if you enter a thermal where the air may be rising a few thousand feet then you are off cross country. Pilots have flown from Brighton to Margate, of course don't expect to do this on your first day!
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