Francis M Rogallo
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NASA Research on Flexible Wings
Authors: Francis M. Rogallo NASA Center: Langley Research Center Publication Date: January, 1967 Report Number: NASA TM X-59738
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Francis Rogallo dies at 97
Engineer invented flexible wing that enabled hang gliding -- latimes.com
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Rogallo retired in 1970 and chose to move near Kitty Hawk, N.C., where the Wright brothers pioneered powered, manned flight. He had once met Orville Wright, in 1939.
About once a month, until his 80th birthday, Rogallo would drive five miles to Jockey's Ridge State Park and fly his red-and-white hang glider. The only time he was ever hurt hang gliding, he later recalled, was when someone else crashed into him.
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