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Old 01-18-2018, 08:56 AM
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About 2013 I was at the Tamarind Grove pool one afternoon and looking up I saw a person flying a paraglider overhead about a 1000' up like the one pictured below. As I watched more come into sight and at one point I counted 31 paragliders in the sky at one time, none of them probably lower than 500'. I believe in the paper the next day they mentioned they were a club in route to Ocala but a couple of local residents landed in TV. These were not powered aircraft, I always wondered how they could launch so many at once since an airplane seemed out of the question with so many.

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