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Animals
PG Activity Sector
Partners, pests, leaders, guides, friends, companions, aerodynamic models,
 

  1. Advancing PG enjoyment by seeing oneself as a kind of duck
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  2. Birds enhance my PG             Birds (class Aves)
  3. Paragliding spiders (gliding kiting) "Ballooning (spider)"
  4. Ballooning is a term used for the mechanical kiting[2][3] that many spiders, especially small species,[4] as well as certain mites and some caterpillars use to disperse through the air. Some spiders have been detected in atmospheric data balloons collecting air samples at slightly less than 5 km (16000 ft) above sea level.[5] It is the most common way for spiders to invade isolated islands and mountaintops.[6][7]
  5. Aeroplankton
  6. Flying and gliding animals
  7. Insects increase my flight joys
  8. Flies
  9. Spiders instruct my free-flight realm.
  10. Some mammals add to my free-flight PG experience
  11. Paragliding spiders are by sisters and brothers.
  12. Gliding squirrels and I are friends.
  13. Some dinosaurs root my PG life.
  14. Those gliding snakes bring color to my own gliding.
  15. Those gliding ants enhance my technical-flying life.
  16. Flying fish urge me to solve XO self-soar flying.  XO: Cross Ocean.
  17. Flies and speed flying seem to spark my PG ways.
  18. Anatidae      (inspired by Dave Massie, October 31, 2011)
  19. Bird species named after R.M.   (aerobornus Rickmasterus).
     
  20. Anand "Quack-Quack" Iyer   seems to select this sector, as that is his signature.
  21. parahawkusa
  22. Vulture takes down paraglider!
  23. Dogs in launch and landing zones.
  24. Landing into groups of animals.
  25. Animals invading stored paragliders.
  26. Animals in the atmosphere: birds, insects, spiders, microbes ..
    that meet paragliders during flight.  Goggles.
  27. Images of animals in wing art, helmet and clothing and harness art.
  28. Fly The Skies With A Bird As Guide
  29. This is a call for comprehensive study of paragliding spiders.  
    The lines play a double role as wing set and tether set. The resistive set is the spider's body that has its own aerodynamics. All parts of the gliding-kite system (paraglider) play a role in successful paragliding.
    • Species
    • Mechanisms
    • Drawings
    • Photographs
    • Videos
    • Reynolds numbers
    • Physics. Aerodynamics
    • Record flights observed
    • Jonathan's video  of 2011. Camera picked up soaring spider line. His comments.
    • Lines playing as wing set and tether set
    • Articles on topic
    • Researchers
    • Scientific papers
    • Close description of the lines
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    Paragliding spiders:  (gliding kiting spiders; "ballooning spiders")

     Hi Paul,                                  Nov. 2011
     Thanks for bringing in the spider article; see the history of that article and find my contributions.
     Indeed, also, nature has provided us with the free-flight gliding spider (paragliding spiders). Note in forum the mention also of "puff" paraglider which is a lead for what the spider has given us. Notice that class "kite" has subclasses, one of which is where the mooring or resistive set is freely falling through the air, thus the kiting spiders (which is the same in their case to say: paragliding spiders. Spider paragliding includes occasionally the single tether that acts both as tether and as wing, and the other spiders that have multiple tethers that double as tether and wing. The undulations from minor gusts and other oscillations cause the tethers to shape to present more aerodynamic surfaces to the air for greater chances to give net lift. Transcontinental flights by such paragliding spiders has been suspected as they get dynamically soaring into the higher wind streams. Thanks for your positive contribution to the topic.     Nov. 15, 2011 in PM.

     
  30. remiges (singular remex
     
  31. Various animals regularly paraglide; the animals are sometimes taken along a flight deliberately; but most animals are taken inadvertently on flights; the animals hitch a ride in our harness, in our clothes, on our skin, inside our body, etc.  Microbes, fleas, dogs, etc.  And some plants hitch rides also.
  32. http://www.npr.org/2011/12/02/143055124/flight-of-the-wild-pigeon
  33. http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5&prgDate=12-02-2011
  34. Feather science.
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