Historical U.S. Hawks (HUSH)
who are flying the Next Thermal

yet very incomplete ...
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These people influenced hang gliding
as appreciated
in the United States,
though many were from other nations.

• David Barish
• Art Bean
• Bill Bennett
• Igor Bensen
• Paul Bikle
• Carl Boenish
• George Cayley
• Octave Chanute
• Pat Conniry
• Irv Culver
• Richard Eipper
• Gottlob Espenlaub
• Edward R. Gardia
  
• Dave Gibas
• v
• v
• v

• Mike Harker
• William Randolph Hearst
• Augustus Moore Herring
• James Hobson
• Domina C. Jalbert
• Volmer Jensen
• Rob Kells
• Dave Kilbourne
• Jack Lambie
• Charles H. Lamson
• Gustav Lilienthal
• Otto Lilienthal
• Bob Lovejoy
• v
• v
• v
• v

• Paul B. MacCready, Jr.
• James Means
• Richard Miller
• John Joseph Montgomery
• Willi Pelzner
• Alphonse Pénaud
• Francis Melvin Rogallo
• Gertrude Sudgen Rogallo
• Alberto Santos-Dumont
• Brett Snellgrove
• George A. Spratt
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Thomas Walker
• Waldo Dean Waterman
• Bob Wills
• Jan Wnęk
• Robert W. Wood
• Albert Francis Zahm
• v
• v

• http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/flying%20wings/early%20US%20flying%20wings.htm
• http://books.google.com/books?id=OF09rS6IenUC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false The Great Awakening by Albert Adams Merrill. 
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• http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits/chanute/index.html