- The
Rogallo wing is a
flexible type of wing. In 1948,
Francis Rogallo, a NASA engineer, and his wife
Gertrude Rogallo,
invented a self-inflating flexible...
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Rogallo's flexible wing and
subsequent development by the
Paresev engineering team's
innovations and then others. On 1948,
engineer Francis Rogallo invented...
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subsonic and supersonic flight. At the
other end of the
speed scale, the
Rogallo flexible wing
proved a
practical design for the hang
glider and
other ultralight...
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Francis Melvin Rogallo (January 27, 1912 –
September 1, 2009) was an
American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U.S. Together...
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Torrey Pines Gliderport in La Jolla. He soon
moved from the
traditional Rogallo wing
design to a
rigid flying wing
biplane design he
called Icarus. Icarus...
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innovation that led to
modern hang
gliders was in 1951 when
Francis Rogallo and
Gertrude Rogallo applied for a
patent for a
fully flexible wing with a stiffening...
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Gertrude S.
Rogallo (January 13, 1914 –
January 28, 2008) was one of the co-inventors of the
flexible wing.
These wings are now
known as
Rogallo wings. She...
- of a foot-launched hang glider. On 23
November 1948,
Francis Rogallo and
Gertrude Rogallo applied for a kite
patent for a
fully flexible kited wing with...
- ring-shaped - are uncommon.
Sport parachuting has
experimented with the
Rogallo wing,
among other shapes and forms.
These were
usually an
attempt to increase...
- kite-parachute
studies by NASA
engineer Francis Rogallo.
Between 1961 and 1965 the
ability of the
Rogallo wing (also
called "Parawing") to
descend a payload...
