Some of the pilots in the sport of gliding take part in gliding competitions. These are usually racing competitions, but there are also aerobatic contests and on-line league tables.
Read more about Gliding Competitions: History of Competitions, Present Day, Levels of Competition, A Typical Competition Day, Scoring, Water Ballast, Racing Strategy and Tactics, Grand Prix, Online Contests, Aerobatics, See Also
Famous quotes containing the word gliding:
“How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)