Paraglider

Paragliding, like hang gliding, developed partially out of designs created for the NASA space program.

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

The sport can be traced to the activities of French parachute inventor Pierre Lemoigne, who tow-launched his advanced round-parachute canopies in the 1950s. The ram-air-inflated cell structure originated in the early 1960s with the kite and parachute designs of the Canadian-born American inventor Domina Jalbert.