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From: phipps@solitary.Stanford.EDU (Geoff Phipps)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Palestinian Terrorist Organizations Have Nonconventional Weaponry
Keywords: hang glider attack
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.030012.19682@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 28 Jun 90 03:00:12 GMT
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From: phipps@solitary.Stanford.EDU (Geoff Phipps)
In article <1990Jun27.021214.1907@cbnews.att.com> ric@Think.COM (Rick Wheeler) writes:
:
:In article <1990Jun26.024941.15277@cbnews.att.com> phipps@solitary.Stanford.EDU (Geoff Phipps) writes:
:>From: phipps@solitary.Stanford.EDU (Geoff Phipps)
:>In article <1990Jun22.043337.28362@cbnews.att.com> F2E010%BARILVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Don Goldenfarb) writes:
:>>
:>>In late 1987, a member of a Palestinian group flew a hang-glider over the
:>>Israeli border and manged to enter an IDF base.  I think he may have
:>>killed 5 soldiers.
:
:>Didn't that attack involve an ultra-light?  A hang glider is
:>unpowered and has no control surfaces. An ultralight has a motor and
:>control surfaces.
:
:	By the above definition, the attack was carried out by an
:"ultra-light" which was basically a hang glider with the addittion of a
:small engine.
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Okay, there is a third class which I didn't mention, which is often called 
a "trike".  You take a hang glider, then attach a cage with a  motor and tricycle
undercarriage at the normal hang point.  The glider is still flown with weight
shift, but it does have a pusher propeller.  It sounds like this is
what it was.

Geoff Phipps
phipps@solitary.stanford.edu