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Michael A. Markowski
... the core sector of a major hang-gliding-history renaissance flow
Michael Anthony Markowski

Sky surfing, skysurfing, man-flight, hang gliding,

Timeline (data and image contributions are welcome as we build this Markowski-flow timeline)
[[Ed: Consider couple sobriquet: "Orville and Wilbur" :: Michael and Marjie]]
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1972: July-December
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMarkowski%2C+Michael+A.&qt=hot_author
Copyright entry in 1973 
The Amateur Scientist

Hang Gliding, or Sky Surfing, with a High-Performance, Low-Speed Wing
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by C. L. Stong
December, 1974

Inverted Y" where the legs of the Y are connected by a basebar (during flight that basebar is in tension).     
(Ed: not A-frame terminology; but old art from at least 1908, equivalent.)

Misc. working notes
"This is near where I made my first flight on the Cape, May 23, 1972, my birthday and Otto's!, which I did close to where Marconi made history's first transatlantic radio transmission. (My first HG flight was on September 18, 1971 at a Ski slope in Mass. There's a stone plaque commemorating the site. Tom was first to join me in HG after we met in June 1972. He's now President of Flight Design USA, importer of the CTS line of Light Sport Aircraft, the most popular brand in the world! He never went to college, but focused on HG stating at 16 when we met. He joined USHGA right after me; I'm #261, he's #262. www.vimeo.com/77824418

"   ~ Michael A. Markowski, Nov. 4, 2013, email.

Mike, your book Birdflight holding the book by Otto Lilienthal was instrumental in finding W. Simon's name; Jonathan found the name in a contest where the book was a prize.  Thanks again,   JoeF

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