Author: Bruce Goldsmith
Publisher: Cross Country International
ISBN: 0993346715
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Twenty Five Ways to Fly Better is packed with the latest techniques and thinking from some of the world’s best pilots and instructors. With former Paragliding World Champion Bruce Goldsmith at the helm, the book draws on advice and knowledge from across the world of free flight. Volume 2, this one covers advanced XC techniques, from flying convergence, using speed-to-fly theory and becoming an advanced pilot. Volume 1 covers the basics of flying XC in both mountains and flatlands. From how to thermal to understanding and navigating airspace. Taken together, the two volumes cover everything in the print book 50 Ways to Fly Better. For this ebook, Volume 2, we’ve also added a few bonus chapters – if you’ve always wanted to look inside the mind of Chrigel Maurer, now you can.
Twenty Five Ways to Fly Better Volume 2
Author: Bruce Goldsmith
Publisher: Cross Country International
ISBN: 0993346715
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Twenty Five Ways to Fly Better is packed with the latest techniques and thinking from some of the world’s best pilots and instructors. With former Paragliding World Champion Bruce Goldsmith at the helm, the book draws on advice and knowledge from across the world of free flight. Volume 2, this one covers advanced XC techniques, from flying convergence, using speed-to-fly theory and becoming an advanced pilot. Volume 1 covers the basics of flying XC in both mountains and flatlands. From how to thermal to understanding and navigating airspace. Taken together, the two volumes cover everything in the print book 50 Ways to Fly Better. For this ebook, Volume 2, we’ve also added a few bonus chapters – if you’ve always wanted to look inside the mind of Chrigel Maurer, now you can.
Publisher: Cross Country International
ISBN: 0993346715
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Twenty Five Ways to Fly Better is packed with the latest techniques and thinking from some of the world’s best pilots and instructors. With former Paragliding World Champion Bruce Goldsmith at the helm, the book draws on advice and knowledge from across the world of free flight. Volume 2, this one covers advanced XC techniques, from flying convergence, using speed-to-fly theory and becoming an advanced pilot. Volume 1 covers the basics of flying XC in both mountains and flatlands. From how to thermal to understanding and navigating airspace. Taken together, the two volumes cover everything in the print book 50 Ways to Fly Better. For this ebook, Volume 2, we’ve also added a few bonus chapters – if you’ve always wanted to look inside the mind of Chrigel Maurer, now you can.
Twenty Five Ways to Fly Better Volume 1
Author: Bruce Goldsmith
Publisher: Cross Country International
ISBN: 0957072791
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Twenty Five Ways to Fly Better is packed with the latest techniques and thinking from some of the world’s best pilots and instructors. With former Paragliding World Champion Bruce Goldsmith at the helm, the book draws on advice and knowledge from across the world of free flight. It includes: - Hundreds of tips to help you fly better - Practical advice on how to thermal quickly and efficiently - Skills and tactics from experts to help you fly cross country - In-depth advice on flying flatlands and mountains - Advice on staying safe while flying near clouds and terrain - Real life explanations of how clouds and thermals work - Simple explanations for flying in wind, convergence and thermals - Advice on flying your first competition - Packed with clear and simple illustrations - Essential reading for all paraglider and hang glider pilots
Publisher: Cross Country International
ISBN: 0957072791
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Twenty Five Ways to Fly Better is packed with the latest techniques and thinking from some of the world’s best pilots and instructors. With former Paragliding World Champion Bruce Goldsmith at the helm, the book draws on advice and knowledge from across the world of free flight. It includes: - Hundreds of tips to help you fly better - Practical advice on how to thermal quickly and efficiently - Skills and tactics from experts to help you fly cross country - In-depth advice on flying flatlands and mountains - Advice on staying safe while flying near clouds and terrain - Real life explanations of how clouds and thermals work - Simple explanations for flying in wind, convergence and thermals - Advice on flying your first competition - Packed with clear and simple illustrations - Essential reading for all paraglider and hang glider pilots
Jazz Fly 2
Author: Matthew Gollub
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889910444
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A fly uses a combination of Spanish and jazz scat to ask a sloth, a monkey, and a mackaw to transport his band to a tropical concert site, and then to talk sense to an anteater who interrupts their performance. Includes author's note on how language, rhythm, color, and life are depicted in the book.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889910444
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A fly uses a combination of Spanish and jazz scat to ask a sloth, a monkey, and a mackaw to transport his band to a tropical concert site, and then to talk sense to an anteater who interrupts their performance. Includes author's note on how language, rhythm, color, and life are depicted in the book.
Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature. Volume 2
Author: Boris Stojkovski
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
ISBN: 6158179353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Travelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmodern age. The father of history, Herodotus, was also a traveller, whose Histories can easily be considered a travel account. The first volume of this book is dedicated to the period starting from Herodotus himself until the end of the Middle Ages with focus on the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world, and South-Eastern Europe. Research on travellers who connected civilizations; manuscript and literary traditions; musicology; geography; flora and fauna as reflected in travel accounts, are all part of this thought-provoking collected volume dedicated to detailed aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the end of the sixteenth century. The second volume of this book is dedicated to the period between Early Modernity and today, including modern receptions of travelling in historiography and literature. South-Eastern Europe and Serbia; the Chinese, Ottoman, and British perception of travelling; pilgrimages to the Holy land and other sacred sites; Serbian, Arabic, and English literature; legal history and travelling, and other engaging topics are all part of the second volume dedicated to aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the contemporary era.
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
ISBN: 6158179353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Travelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmodern age. The father of history, Herodotus, was also a traveller, whose Histories can easily be considered a travel account. The first volume of this book is dedicated to the period starting from Herodotus himself until the end of the Middle Ages with focus on the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world, and South-Eastern Europe. Research on travellers who connected civilizations; manuscript and literary traditions; musicology; geography; flora and fauna as reflected in travel accounts, are all part of this thought-provoking collected volume dedicated to detailed aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the end of the sixteenth century. The second volume of this book is dedicated to the period between Early Modernity and today, including modern receptions of travelling in historiography and literature. South-Eastern Europe and Serbia; the Chinese, Ottoman, and British perception of travelling; pilgrimages to the Holy land and other sacred sites; Serbian, Arabic, and English literature; legal history and travelling, and other engaging topics are all part of the second volume dedicated to aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the contemporary era.
Big Hairy Drama (Joey Fly, Private Eye, Book 2)
Author: Aaron Reynolds
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082433
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
When Greta Divawing, butterfly star of the Scarab Beetle Theatre, goes missing a week before the opening performance of "Bugliacci," Joey Fly is called in to investigate her puzzling disappearance.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082433
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
When Greta Divawing, butterfly star of the Scarab Beetle Theatre, goes missing a week before the opening performance of "Bugliacci," Joey Fly is called in to investigate her puzzling disappearance.
Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly
Author: Stephanie Hoover
Publisher: Rock Point Gift & Stationery
ISBN: 1631062964
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Bring the wonder of flight down to Earth with clever papercrafts and some help from Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly. You'll create graceful, flying paper art with ease! Butterflies and birds and are among nature's most perfect flying machines. From Humankind's earliest days, we have marveled at the ease and majesty of flying creatures - envious of their ability to break gravity's bounds and soar. Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly celebrates and explains the miracle of natural flight, while providing readers with easy-to-follow patterns for creating Mother Earth's most amazing winged creatures. This box set includes a full-color book, over 140 sheets of custom-printed paper, and instructions for creating20 magnificent masters of flight. You will fold papercraft creatures of all kinds, from a prehistoric pterodactyl, to today's dragonfly, flying fish - and yes, even a stork - this set reaches new heights in paper art.
Publisher: Rock Point Gift & Stationery
ISBN: 1631062964
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Bring the wonder of flight down to Earth with clever papercrafts and some help from Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly. You'll create graceful, flying paper art with ease! Butterflies and birds and are among nature's most perfect flying machines. From Humankind's earliest days, we have marveled at the ease and majesty of flying creatures - envious of their ability to break gravity's bounds and soar. Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly celebrates and explains the miracle of natural flight, while providing readers with easy-to-follow patterns for creating Mother Earth's most amazing winged creatures. This box set includes a full-color book, over 140 sheets of custom-printed paper, and instructions for creating20 magnificent masters of flight. You will fold papercraft creatures of all kinds, from a prehistoric pterodactyl, to today's dragonfly, flying fish - and yes, even a stork - this set reaches new heights in paper art.
British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901, Volume 2
Author: Elizabeth H Chang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.
Pilot Book for Sentence and Theme
Author: Charles Henshaw Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Performance Paragliding - Preparation for Cross-Country and Competition Flying
Author: Maxime Bellemin
Publisher: Performance Paragliding
ISBN: 9781795281539
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Maxime's books, 'Paragliding Performance' give a full analysis of how to improve your performance from preparation to looking at flying from a physical, technical, mental attitude, tactical and logistical angle. For cross-country or competition pilots, you will find many answers and new questions to ask yourself in these excellent books for those keen to progress.The original book has been divided into two volumes for this edition. This one is devoted to training, while the other one addresses performance in terms of execution and achieving goals. First volume starts with the introduction while the second ends with the conclusion.
Publisher: Performance Paragliding
ISBN: 9781795281539
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Maxime's books, 'Paragliding Performance' give a full analysis of how to improve your performance from preparation to looking at flying from a physical, technical, mental attitude, tactical and logistical angle. For cross-country or competition pilots, you will find many answers and new questions to ask yourself in these excellent books for those keen to progress.The original book has been divided into two volumes for this edition. This one is devoted to training, while the other one addresses performance in terms of execution and achieving goals. First volume starts with the introduction while the second ends with the conclusion.
Travel
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description