How Hang Gliding Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It’s a super 70s thing, sure, but hang gliding is a thrill ride for the ages. So strap in with Josh and Chuck and learn all about the earliest method of human flight, originally created by a German man who flew over 2000 times before dying in a crash!

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to StuffyShitNo from House StuffWorks.com.
0:41.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.1	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry Rowland and as I
0:48.8	said there's me Josh Clark which makes this stuff you should know.
0:54.0	The Soarin Edition.
0:56.9	Soarin?
0:58.9	Soaring.
0:59.9	Oh okay.
1:02.2	The Soerto edition.
1:03.6	I don't know what that means either.
1:06.2	It doesn't mean anything.
1:07.2	It's just kind of a Soerto's kind of the opposite of Soaring.
1:11.7	You know?
1:13.0	Really drags you down to earth.
1:15.0	Got you.
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