Turkey
Air Sports Delta Wings
Delta wings is a single person flight
vehicle which can fly with wind and other air impacts and has no motor.
Take off, stay on air and take off area is similar to paragliding . But
there is more training period for flight. There is a person connected parachute
for security.
Flight Regions
Delta wing sport can also be performed at the places where paragliding
can be performed.
Structure
Wings delta wing has approximately 25 - 30 kg weight, and 10
wing long when it is opened. (folded up standard 4 m) There are beginner,
intermediate
and advanced class wings.
Beginner
class training wings are used during training, when experience gained
intermediate class wings can be used for flight. But for advanced level
models, long time experience and flights are required. Wing is speed
up when you come through advanced level in models, and control of the
wing become harder.
Take Off beginning to flight in our country, is to run with shouldering
wings from flight hill under appropriate weather conditions. For gaining
altitude, generally there must be hill facing, in other words coming
from opposite direction, winds are required. In another method thermal,
meaning hot air columns ascending from ground, are used. While this hot
air is ascending it rises delta circulating within it together.