Skyboard

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1. Skyboard is a lightweight board similar to a snowboard, usually equipped with foot bindings and a recovery parachute, used for skysurfing, a type of skydiving in which the skydiver performs surfing-style aerobatics during free-fall.

2. Skyboard is the brand name of a dynamic advertising trailers with a total media space up to 320 m². (almost 3.500 sq ft), used as a billboard (advertising) in outdoor advertising. It is mobile, can be quickly installed on open spaces and erects itself automatically in only a few minutes.

3. Skyboard is a one- person glider that offers a highly manoeuvrable alternative to skydiving: Invented by New Zealander Bob Harris, the Skyboard is a 2.3m long capsule, in which a pilot lies face down with hands on controls that offer full flying functions. On being launched from between 10,000ft and 35,000 ft (from either a fixed wing aircraft or helicopter) Skyboard’s front and rear wings, and tail plane are electronically deployed. The pilot, using aileron and elevator control surfaces can then fly the glider before making a wheels-down or parachute-assisted landing.

Video Skyboard first flight september 2007

[edit] References and external links

• Dictonary: definition of skyboard
  
  • [1][Movie: Rob Harris - skysurfing]
    
• MSB-International: Skyboard
  
  • [2][Movie: SkyBoard 320]
    
• Skyboard NZ Ltd
  And outdoor advertising device, typically a billboard or digital display.