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    Ridge lift (or slope lift) is created when a wind strikes an obstacle, usually a mountain ridge or cliff, that is large and steep enough to deflect the...
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  • sources: Thermals (where air rises due to heat), Ridge lift, where air is forced upwards by a slope, Wave lift, where a mountain produces a standing wave,...
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    Gliding (section Ridge lift)
    distances are now flown using any of the main sources of rising air: ridge lift, thermals and lee waves. When conditions are favourable, experienced pilots...
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    whereas ridge lift requires the wind to be blowing horizontally against the ridge. Walkalong gliders are sustained and controlled in the ridge lift produced...
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  • Chair) 1976 - Retired 2023 Lower Mountain Town of Jasper from the Eagle Ridge lift Powder day at Marmot Basin List of ski areas and resorts in Canada Jasper...
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    principle used by soaring pilots when flying between sources of lift, usually thermals, ridge lift and wave. The aim is to maximize the average cross-country...
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    recovery of NASA space capsules by David Barish. Testing was done by using ridge lift. After tests on Hunter Mountain, New York in September 1965, he went on...
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    Park Ridge lifts 'Goldbergs'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 January 2020. Johnson, Jennifer (2 February 2019). "'Goldbergs' actor and Park Ridge native...
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  • Retrieved 2019-12-11. "Lift Tickets". Bear Valley. 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2019-12-11. "Lift Tickets // Dodge Ridge". Dodge Ridge. Retrieved 2019-12-11....
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    the windward face of the mountain, creating lift. The area of lift extending from the ridge is called the lift band. Providing the air is rising faster than...
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