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Outdoor Life

elleng

(135,988 posts) Fri Jul 26, 2024, 08:30 PM Jul 2024

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Adventurers in my MD neighborhood (Original Post) elleng Jul 2024 OP

Very cool! masmdu Jul 2024 #1

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1. Very cool!

Fri Jul 26, 2024, 11:54 PM

Jul 2024

In the mid 1990s I used to paraglide while living in southern Japan.

How far can you go with power? Do they make an electric (quite) motor?

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2. I don't know how far they can go; the circuit they do here appears to be a 1-2 mile loop.

Sat Jul 27, 2024, 12:05 AM

Jul 2024

The motor is pretty quiet, and I can hear it (as they circle from the hangar pictured here) north toward my house.