starting to lose my mind about this, that is a paramotor, on account of it has a motor
a paraglider has no motor, on account of being a glider
their wings and harnesses are different, a paramotor is not a paraglider with a lawmower engine on it - that wouldn't work, since the pendulum swing forward with the engine on would fuck up the efficiency and function of a paraglider wing
i blame journalists but it's still driving me insane
Also neither a powered parachute or a paramotor are gliding. Sorry, this was the thrust of your comment and I missed it entirely by getting excited about flying machines.
Ah, I think I see the issue: a powered parachute is a light aircraft that you sit on. A paramotor is a propeller mounted to your back. Both use a parafoil as a wing. The Al-Aqsa Flood used powered parachutes, not paramotors.
In the sport I believe every powered parachute, whether trike or otherwise, is generally referred to as a paramotor for short, or trike for even shorter
Yeah I misphrased that, a trike would be specific to something with trike landing gear. Either way, if it has a parachute and a motor, it can be called a "paramotor". A "paraglider" requires the modifier "powered" to accurately describe the Hamas usage, and even still there is a real distinct difference in the construction and design of a paraglider wing and a paramotor wing, because the pendulum action would pretty much ruin a paraglider's lift capacity since it would be trying to stall all the time.
All throughout history 'inferior' tech has been used to thwart shiny new tech and supposedly invincible forces. Those contraptions are no exception, but they may be one of the most entertaining yet.
My bigoted boomer biodad has been doing ultralight glider shit for a couple decades now, and it's hard to convey how much it delights me to have this new association with those machines for myself while knowing that the same new association is totally ruining it for him.
I've been up in one of those things before - I genuinely cannot fathom the courage and desperation it took to ride one into fucking battle. It's incomprehensibly based and unspeakably tragic.
More like "Leftism enjoyer takes up paragliding, learn to overcome his fear of height just to spite and terrorize libs"
I've always wanted to take this up myself, so I'm quietly sicko-pilled over much of the reporting
