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self-soar

self-soar verb: to use the normal launching method for a hang glider.

Verb

self-soar (third-person singular simple present self-soars, present participle self-soaring, simple past and past participle self-soared)

  1. To use the normal launching method for a hang glider.
    • Noted Swedish sailplane pilot Bengt Soderholm tries self-soaring for a change.1972, Popular Science, volume 200, number 6, page 94

Forms of self-soar

third-person singular presentself-soars
present participleself-soaring
past participleself-soared
pastself-soared

Origin of self-soar

From self- + soar. Many intrepid flyers joined the 70s' Self-Soar Association [S-SA] that had "Otto" memberships and membership numbers in honor of Otto Lilienthal who self-soared off a hill he had built. The booklet series Low & Slow and the Hang Glider Weekly (together 216 editions) frequently used the term self-soar to describe flying using an unpowered glider flown after launching by some system without the aid of motors or other persons.

Questions about self-soar

What does self-soar mean?
Self-soar means to use the normal launching method for a hang glider.
What part of speech is self-soar?
Self-soar is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-soar?
The past tense of self-soar is self-soared.

Words near self-soar in the dictionary

  1. self-slaughtered
  2. self-slaughters
  3. self-slayer
  4. self-slayers
  5. self-slaying
  6. self-soar
  7. self-soared
  8. self-soaring
  9. self-soars
  10. self-sow
  11. self-sown

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