Experiments which would take weeks with a full-scale glider could be completed in hours on the Wright balance. |
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It's great to see trike pilots and hang glider pilots working so closely together. |
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I think a better tug would be a fancily flapped ultralight or a very large yet lightweight hang glider trike. |
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It's been my experience that the only people who can tie an eye splice are old sailors and glider pilots. |
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It saw active service as a troop transport, glider tug, freighter, ferry aircraft, and ambulance, and was used for dropping parachute troops. |
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Portability as well as being able to be flown from hang gliding flight parks using hang glider tugs has been the criteria for design. |
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His program was an aircraft hangar, filled with almost every variety of primitive aircraft, from a turboprop trainer to a hang glider. |
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The control frame on a rigid wing is just unconnected from the glider and you feel that unconnectedness. |
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There is a sugar glider, an emu and a kangaroo, several koalas, snakes, geckos, frogs, and eagle, a wombat, a pelican, and many more as well. |
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I will be clipped into the hang glider with my right hand on his left shoulder. |
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When you finish setting up your glider, hook your harness to the hang strap and never unhook it until after your flight. |
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In February 1941, after studying engineless flight, glider production was approved. |
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The event this year will be open for all free flyers, that is hang glider and paraglider pilots. |
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I had a long walk out hauling my glider and harness on my kayak cart, but got to the party in time. |
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At no speed the glider stalled and because of the left turn my left wing went down first. |
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I was afraid that the glider would stall when I was close to the ground and spin in. |
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You would be flying along, at cruise, do nothing, and suddenly the glider would stall because of tail gusting. |
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The design was supposed to be an improvement on the VX with the same sink rate, but a lighter, more nimble glider. |
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An instrument known as a variometer helps to show the pilot when the glider is in a thermal, and the pilot circles within it and gains altitude. |
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The aeronauts tested a three-winged glider, but when the lower wing kept catching on the dunes Avery removed it. |
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As we towed a glider, the nylon rope broke and whiplashed into our plane, damaging the rudder. |
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I land effortlessly by the windsock and walk my glider on to the nice green grass by the clubhouse. |
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He took up gliding, sharing a glider with a local general practitioner, and went solo on his 65th birthday. |
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On landing the 7th Battalion of 5th Brigade begins a forced march towards Pegasus Bridge, to reinforce the glider force. |
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And in a combat glider, where there was only one chance to land safely once the pilot committed to a landing, there was no turning back. |
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Music leaked softly from the windows behind him, when he'd resumed his seat on the glider. |
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Two glider combat teams landed amphibiously at a town, Nasugbu, on the west coast of the island of Luzon, south of Manila. |
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But adding anhedral makes for an unstable hang glider that is harder to keep straight. |
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I took off as normal, concentrated on getting the glider established above hill top height before attempting to get into the pedals. |
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A pilot fell out of his glider during a loop-the-loop because he'd forgotten to fasten his seatbelt. |
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As a bonus, you also have the opportunity to build two other benches, including a rocking patio glider and a gazebo bench, at a special price. |
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I used the concept of the sailing boat rig with foresail and mainsail in the 70's as a very slow flying hang glider. |
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During this summer we saw a case of VG rope breaking and found a slightly damaged safety wire on that glider. |
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She flopped back down into the glider, setting it swinging wildly for a moment. |
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The test bed for this novel engine is the Slocum glider, a craft that looks like a 2-m-long torpedo with slim wings. |
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Acrobates is a glider and has gliding membrane running from wrist to ankle. |
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Fortunately, the discussion of ballast, glider, and pilot weight, including wing span, has happened before. |
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I was the third pilot to take the glider for a test flight yesterday at Quest. |
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The question is, once it was airborne, was it just a glider, a weakly flapping flyer, or a strong flyer? |
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If the ancestor was not a glider, then its wings must have developed from another function of the arms. |
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There is nothing much worse than a bunch of hang glider pilots sitting around on a flyable day questioning the meaning of their lives. |
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Besides hauling passengers on airshow barnstorming flights, J.R. uses the Stearman for banner and glider towing and scenic flights. |
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A hang glider has an aluminium frame which supports the sailcloth and uses internal battens in the wing to define the aerofoil shape. |
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The glider is a Wings Albatross with a sail area of over 200 square feet and no battens. |
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A lot of design and technology has been applied to the glider and the result has been very pleasing. |
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I often wondered why glider manufacturers didn't try to emulate the Mountain or Alpine Chough's planform. |
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Maybe a clarification of the Litesports position in the glider ranks would be helpful but it is difficult to pin it down. |
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A few days ago I found the remains of a feathertail glider below a heavily flowering unknown species of blue gum in front of the house. |
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The lift got good and I flew around for an hour at cloud base checking to see if the glider would maintain a turn. |
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It developed more specialised roles such as a torpedo-carrier, a glider tug and a pathfinder. |
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More successful was their use by the Air Commando which, in March 1944, landed some of the Chindits by glider behind Japanese lines in Burma. |
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After the chute was inflated the glider rotated a few times and righted itself. |
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Flying just above ground level, the hook snagged the glider towline, pulling the glider from a standstill to 720 mph within seven seconds. |
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In the first section the tow aircraft pulled the glider to the required altitude. |
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Even during aerotow operations, it does not affect the hang glider pilot at the other end of the tow rope. |
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The guys who do the best deadstick landings in the simulator are all glider pilots. |
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The point of attaching the parachute bridle to the carabineer is that then you can dangle from the hang glider as you come down under chute. |
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In the US, hang glider pilots have to pay hundreds of times more for a world record homologation than any other pilots in the world have to pay. |
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The glider is designed to be launched from a weather balloon. |
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There is still nothing like being at cloud base in a hang glider. |
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Abruptly, he pushes forward on the joystick again and the glider drops. |
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The glider dips and banks, the joystick juddering in my hand. |
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So it might be worthwhile to revisit the process of re-entry and examine what happened a year ago as the unpowered, 100-ton glider returned to Earth from 200 miles up. |
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Occasionally someone climbed over it or crashed through it or dug under it, or made himself a glider and flew through it. |
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The Daily Beast rounds up seven more, from the glider King to the flying taxi inventor. |
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I had big wheels on my glider and I rolled in on nicely manicured grass. |
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With no ballast this glider is a handful even in Florida air. |
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I love flying both types and will continue until someone stops me, but the fact remains that a mistake in a sailplane is much more likely to kill you than in a hang glider. |
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It is different for most land-based creatures, though spiders may drift in air as well as microfauna, and sea eagles, frigate birds, and glider pilots. |
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The tow aircraft and glider then crossed into the second area, where the pilot of the tug rocked his wings to signal the pilot of the glider to release the towline. |
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He was going to tow our glider to a height of 3000 feet the norm for a beginner's flight and Paul would then release the tow rope to commence the long descent. |
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Also with this style of bridle the ring or carbineer on the tow rope is free to climb up the bridle further pulling down the nose of the glider and tucking the glider. |
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The best known and most successful of his glider trials was also his last. |
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At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings. |
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Non motorized trikes will be made for use under the hang glider wings. |
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In 1849, Cayley designed and built a full-sized triplane glider, which carried a ten-year-old boy several yards through the air down a hill at Brompton Dale. |
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An unpowered glider can soar through the sky, a helicopter can hover and flit around, and a cannon can even shoot a circus performer in a parabola through the air. |
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The sugar glider is one of a number of volplaning possums in Australia. |
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With no beams or bars to disrupt the view, as there would be in a normal cabriolet or roadster, it's a bit like sitting in the cockpit of a glider. |
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I find when I go flat laying way back I just control the glider with the rear wires and if needed dropping one of my feet out of the foot stirrup to the base tube. |
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I remember a report from France, in the eighties, where near the launch of St. Hilaire du Touvet a hang glider got hit by a sailplane passing under him. |
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It's much more difficult to learn to fly a hang glider than a paraglider. |
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A longtime hang gliding aficionado, the Asotin-based flight instructor had flown just about every parasail, trike, plane and glider in every kind of setting. |
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If the deployment bag falls down at the same speed of the broken glider the weight of the swivel would counterbalance the drag on bridle and lines. |
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In June, a glider crashed near Helmsley as its pilot took part in the British National Gliding Championships, hosted by the Wolds Gliding Club in Pocklington. |
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When asked what she'd done she said she'd crashed her hang glider. |
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I wasn't very good at hang-gliding, I crashed my glider, cricked my neck. |
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The pilot was not able to sustain height and the glider crash-landed on top of a wall several miles from its target, killing or injuring several of the men. |
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With the bar held tight to my chest, I free-fell for what seemed to be an eternity, then tension in my hang strap slowly returned and the glider leveled out. |
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But simulating a glider landing in a hostile environment wasn't easy. |
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The nose pitched down and the glider rotated over its right leading edge. |
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He had some real success with this high performance tandem glider. |
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I used my monkey bar technique and had no problem controlling the glider. |
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He served as a glider pilot in the Army during the Second World War. |
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He sat back down on the porch glider, and continued with his widdle work. |
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Her eyes settled on a glider on the other side of the porch. |
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When Claudette opened the back door she found him on the back porch already, sitting patiently on the glider, as though he hadn't expected to see her for a while. |
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I just kept the glider at less than 40 mph for the first six miles just to keep the needle at the best glide over the ground speed as I knew I was close to not making it. |
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The main arm that holds the glider now has a 45 degree dog-leg, which allows us to keep the arm further away from the face of the person trying the simulator. |
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Jim Tecu has taken to the air in a sail plane glider, a gyroplane and a Cold War vintage Czech jet fighter. |
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Model glider aircraft are models of aircraft using lightweight materials such as polystyrene and balsa wood. |
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A DIVING suit, a glider and a robot are among designs discovered in the notebooks of the great Renaissance visionary, Leonardo da Vinci. |
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On 6 June 1905 Gabriel Voisin took off and landed on the River Seine with a towed kite glider on floats. |
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When life settles down, Carlson says he plans on yielding to his flyboy nature by earning a glider license at the Heber airport. |
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Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket. |
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Its glider had a steel tube fuselage, plywood wings and droppable gear that made it lighter while in tow. |
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Henderson failed to control his airplane after he took off from the airport towing a glider, the NTSB said. |
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Name the world leader who piloted a motorised hang glider to lead a flock of young Siberian white cranes in flight? |
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Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger. |
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A Spitfire IIa crashed at the east side of the airfield on 19 November 1941 during attack practice with a target glider being towed. |
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This is a sugar glider, the cute little possum that may soon vie for the crown of Britain's top pet. |
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In our opinion, no-one should be able to buy a white lion, tiger, sugar glider or a monkey. |
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Then there are the performing pigs, long-jumping guinea pigs and a cute sugar glider, a type of miniature monkey. |
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The most numerous unpowered aircraft are paper aeroplanes, a handmade type of glider. |
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Designs range from simple glider aircraft to accurate scale models, some of which can be very large. |
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The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks and naval bombardments. |
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Melene Belanger was 12 when she had her glider flight with 632 Squadron at Smiths Falls, Ontario. |
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Inside the hangar, Kristine Shaw giggled nervously as she worked a hang glider through a computer-simulated flight. |
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Gliders are classified by the FAI for competitions into glider competition classes mainly on the basis of span and flaps. |
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An inquest heard Kenneth Ebbrell, a deep-sea diver and experienced paraglider and hang glider, died after crashing on to rocKs at BucKstones Edge a year ago. |
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He flies a glider over the Rockies but loses his nerve on a wreck dive, gets the collywobbles climbing Mount Fable and gets jeered by locals for his cowboy skills. |
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The perennial childhood favourite the slip-n-slide gets a muscly makeover when Tim employs a V8-powered glider winch and a 3m-high ramp to send Buddy sky high. |
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The main application today of glider aircraft is sport and recreation. |
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As is the case with planes, there are a wide variety of glider types differing in the construction of their wings, aerodynamic efficiency, location of the pilot and controls. |
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A motor glider does have an engine for extending its performance and some have engines powerful enough to take off, but the engine is not used in normal flight. |
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Size relating to weight affects gliding animals such as the sugar glider. |
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To try to upstage her, Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider but went unseen when a sudden gust of wind forced him over East Anglia. |
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The so far unnamed marsupial has a much longer and thinner face than the well-known sugar glider, according to Charles Darwin University in Australia's Northern Territory. |
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The simulated hang glider ride takes you over the ocean and orange groves. |
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The lemuroid dentition is also closely similar to that of the greater glider in having a greater number of cutting edges on the upper molars compared with the common ringtail. |
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The glider will weigh around 118 pounds and measure nearly five feet long. |
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Police officers said the glider pilot had parachuted to safety. |
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Some new species like the adorable sugar glider are now legal. |
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