Hang gliding question


When they start out hang gliding, it looks like there is a cord or wire pulling them that Petra eventually unhooks them from. Were they being pulled to get started, and, if so, by what?

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There's a shot of a guy in a chair next to a winch, the winch is pulling the hangglider across a snowy field or maybe a frozen lake.

Whichever it was, a flying wing needs airflow to produce lift, hangliders usually get this from falling down something but on a level field at ground level, you need forward velocity from somewhere else.

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