• Barry Hill Palmer              article coming soon.   I was Just Having Fun!    ... in 1959 and following ...

• 1909 Jane's All the World's Air-Ships, page 87.    The Danes also knew what Breslau gliding club knew, apparently; at least the tech was fully evident, even as power was in focus.

• ""There are two recovery systems that are now being seriously considered for application to the Saturn system—the Rogallo or paraglider wing, and the parachute recovery. The Rogallo wing has its limitations in glide range"   October 26, 1961. Flight. Page 651.
   

• "FIRST PUBLIC DISPLAY by the Army Air Corps, held at Middle Wallop last Saturday, provided some out-of-the-ordinary flying events—and aeroplanes. The latter included the M.L. inflatable aircraft (centre picture below)," Click image for source: With power off the flying wing delta inflatable is a hung-mass glider ... yes, mechanically simply a hang glider format device (heavy by carrying motor and prop and pod and trike, but mechanically all there with cable-stayed airframe truss parts, i.e. using mechanics already invented for over a hundred years.)   Flight, 1960.
   
• ""Goodyear Aircraft Corp (Subsidiary of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Corp.,
  ... and ten Inflatoplane inflatable aircraft, in single and two-seat models, have been built for evaluation by the US Army and Navy.""   19 Aug. 1960, Flight, p. 249.
   
• Dynamic kite by Raymond P. Holland, Jr.
  Patent number: 2698724
  Filing date: Mar 12, 1951
  Issue date: Jan 1955
   
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• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kitepatents/message/367    Open discussion on the Ulysses Grant Lee and Darrah instruction of 1910 Flying-Machine.
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• 3153877  Filed in 1962
  .  Does this look familiar?   Effinger did not in his instruction recognize that the nose-piece of Wanner's kite actually provided some equivalence to a transverse member, just as Effinger's own Fig. 6 provided some transverse member.  
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  Notice further interest by Effinger for his filed instruction in July of 1963 where we note the use of term "paraglider" is not quite how we use the term today. His dominant interest in this instruction was toward model sizes of the wing:
  July 1963 filed instruction by Effinger, Henry Struck, and Wayne Gross. 

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  Filing date: Mar 17, 1961:

  
  Cecil E. Craigo, Harry A. James, and Leo J. Hand instructed in 1961 and assigned such findings to Ryan Aeronautical Co. of San Diego, California.   In their 1961 instruction:  
  The "G. S." is Gertrude Sudgen Rogallo; the "et. al. comprises Francis Melvin Rogallo. The patent office and the inventors recognized that they were using "principles described in the U. S. Patent No. 2546078" for mechanical invention.  Public media already had inked "Rogallo Revolution." 
   

• Peter F. Girard also instructed Rogallo matters in a filing on August 20, 1962:
   

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• An enthusiast in 1962 Daniel C. Kurkjian of Pennsylvania decided to finally file an instruction where gliding flight unpowered was included.  He cites earlier matters involving Dahl, Bach, Stumpp, Wanner, and Rogallo, and others.   Of course manned flight in the Paresev program was starkly exceited by the leadership of Francis Rogallo.  The fever from the Sputnik response combined with hearings of Rogallo provided a explosion of interest in the wing type that became world-wide seen as Rogallo Wing, even though bi-lobe stiffened wings were used for gliding in even the early 1800s; bi-wing with batten ribs with pilot hung behind cable-stayed triangle control frame (TCF) was evident in Breslau in 1908 foot-launch hang glider within the reach of the gliding club there.  Fifty-four years later we see an enthusiast Kurkjian mentioning again what Rogallo had demonstrated in the 1950s that these wings were mechanically already invented for use in hang gliders, powered craft, and moored-tethered kites.  The Standard Rogallo hang glider of much later time embedded the wing type and the Breslau TCF.
   
  

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  Joseph Stumpp in 1884 filed an emphasis on foldablility of flexible-wing kites.
    
  It became very widespread art to reach for foldability of kites and gliders.  Later, Otto Lilienthal prided himself in getting some of his hang gliders to so neatly fold down that he could walk through a normal door. Much later we would find Paresev four-boom  battened Rogallo-wing (as was the custom then to be called) be prided by the Charles Richards make group as very foldable for their pendulumed weight-shift vehicle; because they were aiming for payloads, towing, and faster speeds, they did not revert to the Breslau 1908 or before simple foot-launching with the Breslau 1908 triangle control frame cable-stayed with pilot simply hanging from a tether; others would use the already-invented mechanicals to make their own foot-launch hang gliders and also later some water-ski-kited Rogallos later to find some free-flight gliding in their use.

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  Francis V. Cunningham       KITES

  He furthered some instruction and interest in Rogallo wings stiffened in his Feb 25, 1963, filing of instructions. He stated interest in advancing the gliding aspects of kite; most hang gliders are kites, as the hang gliders use a short kite line connecting its pilot-mass free-falling mooring; such realization has been common in the arts since the first decade of the 1800s and earlier. 
  Of course Cunningham was not limiting himself to the few drawings that you will see in his instruction; yet it is something to meditate over framing of the few drawings; here is one (click through for more):

  

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L MUSIL
US Pat. 3154269 - Filed Mar 18, 1963 -
The most popular device which embodies this concept is known as the "paraglider"
or Rogallo ...

FLEXIBLE WING VEHICLE CONFIGURATIONS
US Pat. 3197158 - Filed Apr 29, 1963
... ROGALLO ...

FLEXIBLE WING VEHICLE CONFIGURATIONS
US Pat. RE26380 - Filed Apr 29, 1963 -
... VEHICLE CONFIGURATIONS 7 Sheets-Sheet Original Filed April 29. 1963 FIG. II
105 115 112 110 177 FIG. 21 INVENTOR FRANCIS M. ROGALLO BY ATTORNEYS ...

FLEXIBLE WING VEHICLE CONFIGURATIONS
US Pat. 3194514 - Filed Apr 29, 1963 -
July 13, 1965 FM ROGALLO ...

FLEXIBLE WINO VEHICLE CONFIGURATIONS
US Pat. 3185412 - Filed Apr 29, 1963 -
1963 7 Sheets-Sheet 160 205 200 FIG. 15 FIG. 22 171 164 175 166 FIG. 16 58 80 68
83 76 84 FIG. 7 204 206 INVENTOR FRANCIS M. ROGALLO BY ATTORNEY. ...

WING FOLDING AND STOWAGE
US Pat. 3198458 - Filed May 6, 1963 - The Ryan Aeronautical Co
OTHER REFERENCES "Flexible Wing Research .and Development," Rogallo Paper
presented at the Symposium on Retardation and Recovery, Dayton, Ohio, Nov. ...

CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT
US Pat. 3460784 - Filed Jan 17, 1964 -
CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT Original Filed Jan. 17, 1964 4 Sheets
-Sheet 128 139 FIG. 13 INVENTOR. FRANCIS M. ROGALLO ATTORNEYS ...

CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT
US Pat. 3396921 - Filed Jan 17, 1964 -
13, 1968 FM ROGALLO CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT Filed Jan. 17,
1964 4 Sheets-Sheet 180 FIG. 17 INVENTOR FRANCIS M. ROGALLO BY ATTORNEYS ...

CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WINO AIRCRAFT
US Pat. 3458162 - Filed Jan 17, 1964 -
July 29, FM ROGALLO 3458162 CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WINO AIRCRAFT Original
Filed Jan., 4 Sheets-Sheet July 29, FM ROGALLO ... FRANCIS M. ROGALLO ...

CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT
US Pat. 3446458 - Filed Jan 17, 1964 -
17. 1964 Sheet of 4 ISO FIG. 17 BY INVENTOR. FRANCIS M. ROGALLO May 27, 1969 FM
ROGALLO ...

CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT
US Pat. 3423050 - Filed Jan 17, 1964 -
... FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT Original Filed Jan. 17, 1964 Sheet Of FIG. 19 FIG. 20
FIG. 21 FIG. 23 185 210 100 106 FIG. 24 INVENTOR. FRANCIS M. ROGALLO BY x ...

CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT
US Pat. 3423049 - Filed Jan 17, 1964 -
... CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT Francis M. Rogallo, 17 Milford
Road, Newport News, Va. 23601 Original application Jan. 17, 1964, Ser. No. ...

CONTROL FOR FLEXIBLE PARAWING
US Pat. 3310261 - Filed Jan 17, 1964
... CONTROL FOR FLEXIBLE PARAWING Original Filed Jan., 2 Sheets-Sheet l 20 FIG.
2 FIG. I BY INVENTORS FRANCIS M. ROGALLO WILLIAM C. SLEEMAN, JR. ...

CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT
US Pat. 3464652 - Filed Jan 17, 1964 -
... CONTROL DEVICES FOR FLEXIBLE WING AIRCRAFT Francis M. Rogallo, 17 Milford
Road, Newport News, Va. 23601 Original application Jan. 17, 1964, Ser. No. ...

BARISH SELF-INFLATING WINGS
US Pat. 3298635 - Filed Mar 3, 1964 -
... 7/1965 Rogallo.

FLEXIBLE WING WITH PITCH STABILIZING MEANS
US Pat. 3269674 - Filed Jun 26, 1964 - The Ryan Aeronautical Co
One such system is described in my US Patent No., entitled Auxiliary Boom
Control for Rogallo Type Wing Aircraft, which provides pitch and roll control.
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AIRCRAFT HAVING FLEXIBLE WING SURFACES
US Pat. 3279723 - Filed Jun 30, 1964
An aircraft comprising a keel having a Rogallo- type wing mounted thereon and at
least one canard having flexible wing surfaces mounted on the keel. 2. ...

FLEXIBLE WING DEPLOYMENT DEVICE
US Pat. 3286957 - Filed Jun 30, 1964 - the United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Filed June 30
Rogallo, FM: Flexible Wing Research and Development, NASA Langley Research
Center, Langley Station,: 40 Hampton, Va., November 13-14, 1962, page 4. ...