Paragliding originated in Europe in the early 1970s. At that time, some climbers parachuted down from the mountain and experienced a wonderful feeling and fun, thus creating a new air sports. The original paraglider is a wing-shaped square parachute used for reference when parachuting. Mainly descending, with fast descending speed and good safety performance. After more than 20 years of development and evolution. At present, the longest flight of paragliders is 17 hours, and the longest flight distance is over 300 kilometers. It embodies a kind of communication between man and nature and is loved by nature advocates.
In recent years, this sport has developed rapidly in western countries, such as Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain and other developed countries. People are driving paragliders, running and taking off on the hillside, roaming in the air, talking with Shan Ye, shaking hands with Baiyun, integrating their bodies and minds into nature and showing their courage and strength.
In Asia, paragliding is very popular in economically developed countries and regions such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan Province Province of China, with more than100000 fans. At the end of 1980s, paragliding was introduced to Chinese mainland and developed rapidly. At present, there are more than 50 registered aviation clubs with more than 400 full members/kloc-0, and thousands of people often engage in paragliding. Northeast China, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta have long had folk masters flying. With the gradual popularization of paragliding, many TV media including CCTV have made special reports on this sport. Airfoil canopy, also called umbrella wing, is the main part of paraglider to generate lift and bear load. The shape and area of the canopy and the speed of relative movement with the airflow have great influence on the generation of lift. The wing canopy consists of an upper wing surface, a lower wing surface and dozens of irregular ribs regularly distributed along the span direction. The upper wing surface and the lower wing surface are sewn with the rib to form a specific wing shape. The front edge of the canopy is arranged along the transverse direction of the rib to form an air inlet with a certain size. Because the rear edge of the umbrella is completely closed, an air chamber for storing air is formed between the upper and lower wings and the umbrella ribs.
When the canopy moves relative to the air, the air enters the air chamber from the air inlet, but it cannot be exhausted because the rear edge of the canopy is closed. Under the action of air impact force, the inner cavity of the umbrella clothing produces a certain pressure, so that the flexible umbrella clothing maintains a certain rigidity and shape. In order to make the air inlet convenient for air to flow in, the air inlet of each rib is sewn with plastic reinforcing sheets with certain hardness, smoothness and brittleness. In different parts of the wing ribs, there are also round holes with different sizes and numbers. The purpose is to make the air between the air chambers flow in the spanwise direction, which is used to balance the pressure inside the whole umbrella, thus helping to maintain the shape of the whole umbrella and avoiding the collapse of the umbrella due to uneven local stress during inflation. He has been dealing with flying and dreams. From the moment he flew into the sky, he found himself in the constant challenge of speed and limit. His name is Zhang, the first paraglider in China and the first winged pilot in Asia.
Everyone knows that Zhang is the champion of the world paragliding fixed-point championship in 2009, but many people don't know that Zhang is also a winged man and a master of freestyle skydiving. 20 13 became a member of American skydiving association.
20 13, 10 Zhang began to learn winged flight after completing the skydiving course in the United States. It took two and a half months to set a world record for the fastest winged flight and become the best winged pilot in Asia.
Zhang, who is known as "the first person to fly with wings in Asia", tells you in "Know how the wingman can soar freely at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters like an eagle, how to avoid danger calmly and how to control the flight safely". All human dreams seem to be related to flying, but they drive him to create one miracle after another, which is just a small flying dream in his childhood. "That was the first time I saw paragliding on TV. I didn't know what it was at that time, but I saw someone spread a big cloth on the top of the mountain, pulled it up against the wind, turned around and ran for a few steps and flew away. " It is such a simple flying picture that drew an exclamation point in his teenage dream.
Later, it happened that a club in Beijing was recruiting professional pilots, and Zhang signed up with the exclamation point in his heart. Fortunately, he was successfully admitted. In this way, an accidental opportunity turned the exclamation point into an ellipsis that continues to this day.
Sports specialty: Zhang has achieved good results in all kinds of paragliding competitions. In aerobatics, Zhang is the first aerobatic equipment in China. He has trained with many top international aerobatics pilots and red bull players, and received the guidance of former French aerobatic world champion David. He can complete difficult stunts such as inverted flight, helicopter, dynamic total stall, Saturn, Michael rotation and somersault.
Fixed-point flight events: selected for the national team three times, won the national championship three times, won the third place in the Asian Beach Games on behalf of the country, participated in the world championships twice, and won the world championship once on behalf of the national team.
Cross-country flight events: Under the guidance of Red Bull player Levent and Swiss world champion Alex, he was selected into the national team for four times, won the national championship for three times, won the China Open championship, won the Asian Championship test champion, got the best result in the China Asian Championship, and won the third place in the Asian Beach Games.
Skydiving: Under the guidance of Wang Mingji, a well-known domestic paraglider and a number of national paraglider record holders, skydiving training began. After several years of hard training, I used the top equipment in the skydiving competition. I am one of the top skydiving pilots in China. I can fly spirally on the ground, in the snow, on the ice and in the water. In 2009, I participated in the Laiwu International Aviation Games. In 2004, he obtained a paragliding certificate issued by air sports Association of China.
In 2005, he obtained a paragliding certificate issued by air sports Association of China.
In 2006, Shenzhen gliding invitational cross-country race won the fifth place.
In September, 2007, Ye Xuehu National Paragliding Competition in Laiwu, Shandong Province ranked fifth and fourth in men's individual comprehensive.
In 2007, the national paragliding competition in Longli, Guizhou Province was left blank, and the third place was designated as the runner-up and the second place as the comprehensive runner-up
Runner-up of stunt in Gejiu International Paragliding Invitational Tournament in Yunnan in 2007.
In May 2008, he won the championship in Baoding Station of the National Club League.
In July 2008, the runner-up of Hangzhou National Examination was selected into the national team.
September 2008 Linzhou paragliding open champion
In September 2008, he won the national paragliding competition in Longli, Shanxi.
On June 5438+ 10, 2008, the Asian Beach Games in Indonesia was awarded the second and third place in the team competition.
June 2008165438+1October Hangzhou National Paragliding Competition was designated as the runner-up, and the fifth group was designated as the champion and runner-up.
In March 2009, he participated in the national team trials and was selected as the first in the national team.
In 2009, he won the Croatian World Paragliding Championship, which achieved a zero breakthrough in this field in China in the past 20 years.
June 2009 5438+1October Liaoning Xiuyan National Paragliding Open individual champion and team champion.
2009 10 Anyang Linzhou national paragliding open national individual champion
At the beginning of 20 10, he won the first batch of national social sports instructor certificates together with Olympic champions Liu and Kong.
20 10 was selected by the national team to participate in the 2nd Asian paragliding championship in February. The venue for the cross-country race is Japan.
20 10 was selected for the national team again in early March to prepare for the World Cup in Linzhou, China.
20 10 participated in the third Asian paragliding championship in Japan in May, ranking 26th.
June 2065438+00 China Linzhou paragliding World Cup Competition 67th.
May 20th11was selected as the national paraglider team of China.
2011June champion of Asian paragliding test competition in Linzhou, China and champion of the 2nd China Anyang International Paragliding Open.
On February 20 13, he obtained the skydiving certificate from USPA Association and became a member of American Skydiving Association.
On March 20 13, he obtained the flying certificate of Eurowings and became a real winged pilot.