 In 1997, Neumark was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club of the UK.Authors Patrick Gilligan (Canada) and Bertrand Dubuis (Switzerland) wrote the first flight manual, "The Paragliding Manual" in 1985, coining the word "paragliding".These developments were combined in June 1978 by three friends, Jean-Claude Bétemps, André Bohn and Gérard Bosson, from Mieussy, Haute-Savoie, France.