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  2. History of hang gliding - Wikipedia

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    [62] [63] Jim Foreman produced the Bat-Glider plans for a Rogallo-wing hang glider and sold copies for US$5 throughout the world; later, Taras Kiceniuk, Tom Dickinson and two other team members made a similar hang glider called Batso and sold copies of its plans. The plans of these hang gliders circulated in some magazines in the mid-1960s.

  3. Barry Hill Palmer - Wikipedia

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    Richard Miller flying his new Bamboo Butterfly hang glider. Vista Del Mar California, 1966. Palmer experimented with about 8 different hang glider versions and their wings were mostly 90 degree swept back wings. His smallest glider weighed 24 lb (11 kg), and had a surface area of 205 sq ft (19.0 m 2). The flexibility in the frame caused no ...

  4. Leonardo's aerial screw - Wikipedia

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    The "aerial screw" was one of several aerial machines drawn by Leonardo, including an early parachute, an ornithopter and a hang glider. The pen-and-ink sketch outlines an idea for a flying machine similar to a modern helicopter , with a spiral rotor or "aerial screw" based on a water screw , but intended to push against the fluid of the air ...

  5. Aviafiber Canard 2FL - Wikipedia

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    Variously described as a rigid-wing hang-glider or as a foot-launched sailplane, the Canard 2FL was the brainchild of Swiss aerodynamicist Hans Farner.Of fibreglass construction, it consisted of a tiny fuselage, just big enough to accommodate the pilot in a prone position, provided with doors in the bottom through which the pilot's legs could extend for takeoff and landing.

  6. Early flying machines - Wikipedia

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    The Biot-Massia glider, restored and on display in the Musee de l'Air. The glider constructed with the help of Massia and flown briefly by Biot in 1879 was based on the work of Mouillard and was still bird-like in form. It is preserved at the Musee de l'Air, France, and is claimed to be the earliest man-carrying flying machine still in existence.

  7. UFM Easy Riser - Wikipedia

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    An engine was installed by John Moody in 1975 so the glider could be launched from flat terrain. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Early powered versions consisted simply of a motor added to the foot-launched hang glider version with control by a combination of weight shift for pitch and tip rudders for roll and yaw, with the tip rudders used together as air brakes .

  8. Hang gliding - Wikipedia

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    Hang glider just after launch from Salève, France. Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised, fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or composite frame covered with synthetic sailcloth [1] to form a wing.

  9. Volmer VJ-23 Swingwing - Wikipedia

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    The prototype VJ-23 was completed late in 1971 and in an era when foot-launched aircraft were Rogallo-style hang gliders, the VJ-23 was described as more of a foot-launched sailplane, with three axis controls. Jensen and Culver collaborated on the design from a concern about the safety of weight shift hang gliders as well as their structural ...