Hang gliding is not regulated in the UK but is conducted under the supervision of the BHPA, which oversees pilot and instructor training standards.

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"An insurer could contend that a subscription to 'Hang Gliding Monthly' is predictive of highly dangerous behavior, but I'm not buying that theory: The consumer may be getting the magazine for the pictures, " says Thomas Considine, New Jersey's commissioner of banking and insurance.

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Hang-gliding safety is being reviewed following the death of a 16-year-old girl on her first day of solo flying.

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Even such seemingly innocuous activities as canoeing, football and hang-gliding were affected.

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There was, you might reasonably have reflected until about three years ago, more chance of them allowing John Prescott to go hang-gliding.

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An action man both on and off screen, he later took up hang-gliding at the age of 64 and got married for the fourth time at 76.

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The second autumn trend to be noticed is extreme sports hang-gliding, surfing, martial arts, kickboxing, for example which appeal to the sought-after audience of men aged between 18 and 34.

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It, too, wanted a timepiece that its clients could wear while sky-diving, swimming, playing golf or tennis, hang-gliding or anything else they might care to pursue, without having to take it off for dinner.

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