- 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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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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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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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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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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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...
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space agency NASA
began testing various formats of a new wing
called the
Rogallo wing with the
intent of
possibly implementing the
design as a recovery...
- kites. The best
known design is the NASA
Parawing or NPW. For more, see
rogallo wing. This is a very
simple kite with
mixed performance. It has excellent...
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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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glider and
ultralight aircraft designs, with such
types as the delta-shaped
Rogallo wing and the
fully collapsible paraglider. More recently, the
advent of...
