Yemeni Hang Gliders Training in France
How innovative! The impetus is coming through the tourism office of which Yahya Saleh is the national head.
Yemen Observer Yemen plans to establish the first hang-gliding club in Amran province 56 kilometers to the north of Sana’a. The general director of the tourism office of Amran province Mohammed al-Moafa said that his tourism office has been constructing the first gliding platform on top of Maswar mount after the province’s leaderships have approved the studies and technical designs of the first gliding platform in Yemen.
Al-Moafa said that two French glider flying teams had flown from Maswar mount two times and decided to launch gliding flights from Maswar mount annually. “The French gliding club members have flown from Maswar mount two times and have published tourism pictures and reportages about Maswar district in addition to pictures for the members of the French Gliding Club flying over Maswar mount,” said al-Moafa.
He added that Amran province leaderships have been planning to establish the first gliding club in Yemen and within this plan a number of the Yemeni youth are to be sent to France to have gliding training so as to be the first Yemeni gliding team.
Al-Moafaf added that his office is planning to organize international gliding competitions after finishing the gliding infrastructure.
Hang-gliding is a new sport in Yemen where only one Yemeni hang-glider has practiced this kind of sport. Mohammed al-Maqalih is Yemen’s sole hang-glider though he took part in several international hang-gliding activities.
