Topic summary
Slope soaring
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Ridge lift.
See also
- Gliding – Recreational activity and competitive air sport
- Hang gliding – Unpowered glider air sport
- Paragliding – Soaring with a paraglider
- Radio-controlled glider – Type of radio-controlled aircraft
- Controllable slope soaring – Type of slope soaring where a slope is made to follow a walkalong glider
- Orographic lift – Air mass forced upwards as it moves over rising terrain
- Dynamic soaring – Flying technique
- Thermal – Column of rising air in the lower altitudes of Earth's atmosphere
- Lee wave – Atmospheric stationary oscillations