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Lord Tarak had called it a Glider, but it was more like a cigar with a small engine
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“Yes sir, bigger than ours by three; but a glider all the same
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Andrid immediately went to work mapping out a plan to intercept the Scather ships before they had a chance to release the glider on Aura
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So here he was, onboard this giant glider, taking 600 of their youngest and finest to their probable deaths
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Engineering plans for a glider were sent along with instructions on exactly how to operate it to reach the planet
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The closest we came to an interstellar drive was a small glider that I declared unholy after my son was killed on it
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They spotted the first glider as it emerged from the clouds and made a beeline in the direction of the Queens Hold
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As the Glider passed over the top of the forest Scather troops began jumping
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Meanwhile, First Kai reached the Ohmu Inn with his warriors just as the glider passed overhead
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They are known as a hot air balloon, and a hang glider
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He turned to face the glider and positioned himself
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pulled the glider off of its supports
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glider and instructed Brent to walk with him to the center of the
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glider when he felt they had reached an adequate height
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Josh maneuvered the glider to approach the city from the
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Brent was in awe as Joshua maneuvered the glider towards
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He unbuckled himself from the glider and disconnected his
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With a few clicks and folds the frame of the glider, as bent
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We took a seat on a glider, and he pushed it into motion with his foot as we sipped
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He’d been flying Ken’s old glider for the last three years and still hadn’t ventured out of the Kurnell sand dunes
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It wouldn’t have been more than two hundred feet above the deck, when the glider went into a helicopter spin
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The centrifugal force ripped the control bar out of my hands and I swung around that glider like a rag doll
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The glider was partially submerged
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Once I knew that he wasn’t going to drown, I kept my distance and had a go at dragging the broken hang glider out of the water
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There was no way that I was gonna move that bloody hang glider, but at least I was keeping the eagle’s head above the surface
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We might have to try to cut him away before we try to drag the glider out of the water
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‘We dragged the glider out of the water and found the two broken talons still stuck in the sail
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His old hang glider was strapped on the roof
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He saw a hang glider, then another one, and then another three
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He watched a glider launch into the lift and rise
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At the same time, he rotated his glider back into the wind
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For a few moments, Arnold just hovered there, in the wind, playing with the power, then, when he was ready, he pulled the bar towards himself and, as lightly as a feather, brought his glider down into the safe hands of his brother
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Adam clipped his harness into the hang loop and picked up his glider with Ken assisting on the front wires
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Adam’s feet dangled in the air as his glider flew in the wind, only being held down by Ken and Arnold’s secure hands
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The glider was old and its sail had a few wrinkles
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But it was the only glider Adam had ever flown
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The ground fell away beneath him as his glider rose upward in the strong lift
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He just let the glider cruise and headed in the direction of the beach
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He completely lost his awareness of the fact that he was controlling a hang glider in flight
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He was still sitting under the sail, looking vague, as Ken arrived to help him carry his glider into the park
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Hey that’s a pretty different looking hang glider you’ve got there
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Adam walked around Zeke’s glider and gave it a close inspection
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Adam guessed that the glider Zeke had built was not designed for the typical aerobatic hill hogging style of flight, but for efficient, long distance, cross country gliding, to carry him across to Mitchell’s
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Zeke clipped into his strange hang glider, with Adam holding his front wires
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Adam stepped out of the way and watched as Zeke just stood there momentarily, ground handling and feeling his glider in the strong wind
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Like a huge soaring eagle, his wing hovered at least five hundred feet above the next highest glider
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He saw Zeke’s glider, a thousand feet above him, as nothing more than a small speck in the sky
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Steve showed real surprise and, in an agitated manner, asked Adam to hold his glider for a moment
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He always felt, frustratingly, that Steve was going too slowly with glider design and that this was his way of showing him
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Each pilot that landed parked his glider and joined the group standing on the point
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It soon became apparent, however, that Zeke’s glider flew more efficiently
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Both pilots could see that it was going to be close, but what was becoming plainly obvious was that Zeke’s glider was clearly outperforming Steve’s
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No one knew that he was poised to dive his glider into the water right next to his friend, should he not pop up within about fifteen seconds
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‘I just know, but I suspect that we’ve lost a glider
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The lift was so strong on the other side of the valley that Zeke didn’t have to do anything other than point his glider into the wind to keep climbing up the east face of the mighty Mitchell’s Mountain
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As Zeke topped the big mountain, he and his glider became bathed in golden light, making them glow as if they were on fire
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It didn’t matter to him, at all, that he was defeated, or that he went down in the raging ocean, or even that he lost his glider
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He wanted to be the first to congratulate him, and he wanted to help pack up his glider
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Steve brought out a new hang glider, designed for better glide and better lift, and even though he thought that the new wing would not be as suitable for aerobatics as the old one, it turned out that the extra performance only enhanced aerobatics because the pilots could attain a higher top speed in dives and carry that speed better through the manoeuvres
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They both circled and hovered in their respective columns of lift, neither gaining an advantage, until suddenly, Ken’s glider bumped upwards in a small bubble of warm air
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Glenn, reacting to Ken’s move, banked to the right sending his wake into the path of Ken’s glider
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Ken, who was committed and continued to fly in the same arc, suddenly felt his sail momentarily collapse and his glider literally fall about twenty feet as it flew through the hole in the air made by Glenn’s glider
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For a moment Ken wasn’t sure where Glenn was, and while he wasn’t reacting, Glenn swooped into a mentally pre-rehearsed manoeuvre in which he pulled into a much steeper dive, gaining substantial speed, diving below the level of Ken’s glider, pulling up underneath the streamers, cutting two of them on the way up and then banking away back towards the hill in an efficient climbing left turn before Ken even knew what happened
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Glenn had worked out earlier that the wake from an opponent’s glider would trail behind the wing just above the streamers
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He assessed that losing control so close to the other glider was such an undesirable consequence of a diving attack from above, that he worked out an offensive move in which he would cut the streamers from below, then, retaining a smooth flow, would immediately turn back at the hill in order to be first back in the stronger lift
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Glenn quickly rolled his glider in the opposite direction, out of the shallow right turn, into a more aggressive left turn that he intended to continue around in a 360
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Glenn, on the other hand, being victorious, flew around in a wide circle over the valley, with his vanquished opponent’s streamers trailing off his hang glider
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While she hovered around Ken’s glider, he moseyed over to Glenn and quietly whispered to him,
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The thermal belted his right wing, tipping his glider away from the ridge
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His glider dramatically banked to the right and began to fly in a tight, erratic circle
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Ken couldn’t believe his eyes as he watched his rival rapidly spiral his glider skyward
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Without any real time to weigh up the potential consequences, Glenn chose to attack all three streamers in one pass, diving in over the top of Ken’s glider, coming in from twelve o’clock high and intersecting Ken’s streamers as he came around in his 360 towards him
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His dive was so steep, so fast and so committed to Ken maintaining his circular flight path that he was helplessly unable to react sufficiently when Ken suddenly banked out of his 360 and flew his hang glider directly into the path of the plummeting projectile above him
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Seconds later, Glenn ditched his glider in the ocean, just outside the surf break and right in front of Ken’s crash
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He flew into the water at speed, so when the base bar of his A-frame hit the water, it caused the glider to nose in hard and flip over on its back
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He was able to unclip from his hang loop and discard his harness before the glider started sinking
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He began to swim towards Ken’s glider, which he could now see was being completely destroyed by the six-foot swell slamming against the jagged shoreline
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He softly mushed it into the bushes, right above Ken, his glider staying put as it entangled itself in the gnarly branches
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He had to cut his loop with his knife in order to extricate himself from his suspended hang glider
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Tim was first to get to Ken’s mangled glider
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He got powerfully smashed right onto Ken’s mangled glider
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He strapped his hang glider to the roof of his Charger and drove away
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As he set up his hang glider on the point of the hill,
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He gracefully circled his glider into the sunlit valley, drifting westward with the wind, finally touching down in the midst of all his flying friends who all gathered around him, all totally oblivious to his recent personal tragedy, but all very animated in their amazement at the behaviour of the wild eagles
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Later, as he was packing up his glider, Zeke came over to him
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His hang glider then flipped forwards violently, the momentum of the forward rotation sending it into another rotation, then another and another
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No one would have been able to count the number of rotations, but they all saw the doomed glider suddenly stop tumbling and enter a vertical, freefalling dive
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Everyone heard the sound of breaking branches as they saw Zeke and his glider spear into the top of a one hundred and fifty foot gum tree, just behind the clearing in the valley, at what looked like at least sixty miles per hour
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As he stood there by the side of his hang glider, marvelling at the beauty of the valley, a young local kid walked up to him
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He dropped his glider where he landed and, while scanning the park for a friend, casually stepped out of his harness
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He nearly killed himself in a hang glider accident about thirteen years ago