Wikipedia:WikiProject Gliding

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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate! Guide to WikiProjects Directory of WikiProjects

Welcome to the Gliding WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Gliding.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

• Expand Wikipedia coverage of gliders and motorgliders, gliding and soaring, gliding competitions, and unpowered flight in general, and to improve Wikipedia by bringing the unique worldview of the gliding community to other subject areas as well.

Scope

• Articles on aviation, aerodynamics, airmanship, aviation history etc.
• Articles on aircraft, especially gliders, motor gliders, flight instruments, and aircraft systems,
• Subjects relating to the function and operation and nature of gliders.
• Articles on airports, especially gliderports
• Articles on soaring birds
• Articles on meteorology, especially mesometerology and soaring weather phenomenon.
• Articles on air sports, especially gliding and gliding competitions
• Articles on geography, especially pertaining to soaring sites, and geographic features that support cross-country soaring.
• Biographical articles pertaining to aviation pioneers related to gliding, and notable glider pilots.