If you want to fly for fun, soaring is the way to go. ``I fly them, but they're for just in case you want to travel somewhere. ``Power planes are pretty boring,'' said Eric Mozer, a world-class soaring pilot from Clover, S.C. The activity claims 20,000 participants in the United States - 100,000 worldwide - and is in the wind to become an Olympic sport in the coming decade. Such is the basis of soaring - a sport that matches willing pilots with the most eager of airplanes. Unlike the helicopter - kept aloft by the force of engines - a powerless airplane will sail like a well-tossed paper plate if given enough altitude. Stripped of its jets, even a ponderous 747 is predisposed to glide for miles. It's the nature of an airplane to want to fly.
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