Saturday 27 December 2014  Lift-off to high anxiety  James Flint
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Giles Cardozo (far left) and Tom Hughes   James Flint finds
himself running on air and propelled by fear as he flies with a
paramotor  Six years ago, Giles Cardozo saw a magazine picture
of a paramotor - a harness with a propeller on the back. "It
looked exciting,'' he tells me, in his workshop on his parents'
Dorset farm. "I found an army friend who had one, got hold of
that, crashed it, and then went on to make my own.''  A
combination of mad professor, Peter Pan and Richard Branson,
this irrepressible 25-year-old now employs three people and -
with his best friend and fellow enthusiast Tom Hughes - is
setting up a paramotor school in Cyprus. Giles's little factory
is highly organised and Tom is a qualified instructor, but this
doesn't stop me wondering why I'm spending the day in a field
with two big kids and a contraption that looks as if it was last
seen in Those Magnificent Me