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starting to lose my mind about this, that is a paramotor, on account of it has a motor
a paraglider has no motor, on account of being a glider
their wings and harnesses are different, a paramotor is not a paraglider with a lawmower engine on it - that wouldn't work, since the pendulum swing forward with the engine on would fuck up the efficiency and function of a paraglider wing
i blame journalists but it's still driving me insane
Is this not a powered parachute?
Yep, but it's definitely not going to be paragliding
Ah, I think I see the issue: a powered parachute is a light aircraft that you sit on. A paramotor is a propeller mounted to your back. Both use a parafoil as a wing. The Al-Aqsa Flood used powered parachutes, not paramotors.
In the sport I believe every powered parachute, whether trike or otherwise, is generally referred to as a paramotor for short, or trike for even shorter
This paramotor ain’t no trike
Yeah I misphrased that, a trike would be specific to something with trike landing gear. Either way, if it has a parachute and a motor, it can be called a "paramotor". A "paraglider" requires the modifier "powered" to accurately describe the Hamas usage, and even still there is a real distinct difference in the construction and design of a paraglider wing and a paramotor wing, because the pendulum action would pretty much ruin a paraglider's lift capacity since it would be trying to stall all the time.