 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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NSW: Man hit by hang glider could get half a million compensation
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AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-2006
NSW: Man hit by hang glider could get half a million compensation
By Alyssa Braithwaite
SYDNEY, Feb 28 AAP - A man hit by a hang glider while walking along a northern Sydney
headland could receive more than half a million dollars in compensation, a court has been
told.
Edward Wardle, now 63, was walking with his wife and dog at Long Reef near Collaroy
in August 1996 when he was hit b...
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The Economist (US)
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NSW: Man hit by hang glider to receive half million compensation
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HANG GLIDING HIGH INSTRUCTION SCHOOL IN WHITEWATER MAKES THRILLING SPORT POSSIBLE RIGHT HERE IN THE FLATLANDS.(TRAVEL WISCONSIN)
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; Byline: Andrea Zani Wisconsin State Journal Those who have never tried hang gliding -- and, really, isn't that most of us? -- may be surprised by a few things about the sport. Did you know, for example, that once up in the air, a hang glider can soar for hours without coming down? As long as a
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 "Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)")
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Hang glider follows soaring dream.
Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
; ... orlandosentinel.com or 407-931-5951. Copyright (c) 2006, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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; WOBURN -- A dozen times the other evening, Jon Atwood ran down a grassy slope behind his home alongside his three students. Atwood kept his hand on a guy wire as the three novices, each wearing a harness and bicycle helmet, tried again and again to get a white-and-orange hang glider weighing 55
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Chicago Sun-Times
; Four weeks after a horrific hang-gliding crash killed two people in LaSalle County, one victim's family is demanding answers. Jeremiah Thompson was killed Sept. 3 while on a tandem hang glider, learning the hobby from Arlan Birkett, owner of Sheridan- based Hang Glide Chicago. An airplane towed the
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Learning to Fly in Sometimes Unfriendly Skies; Getting Hang of Hang Gliding Takes Time, Patience, Lessons
The Washington Post
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They'll never be safe - but now they're safer.(technology has made hang gliding and rock climbing safer)(Brief Article)
U.S. News & World Report
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