NASA paragliders
PG Activity Sector
Various tensional suspension tactics in many vehicles from Francis' demonstrated doll fully flexible to various stiffened winged paragliders by many workers.  
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• Flexible Paraglider Wing Research and Development  Several vehicles shown
• www.rogallohanggliders.com has many paraglider notes.

• Test conducted in 1960 at NASA Langley Research Center's 14 x 22 foot Subsonic Tunnel, Full Scale Tunnel, Plum Tree and Unitary Plan . The wind tunnel tests were correlated to tests conducted outside.
  14 x 22: http://gis.larc.nasa.gov/documents/1212C/historic/WebApp.html
  Full Scale: http://gis.larc.nasa.gov/documents/643/historic/WebApp.html
  Plum Tree: http://gis.larc.nasa.gov/documents/Plum Tree/historic/WebApp.html
  Unitary Plan: http://gis.larc.nasa.gov/documents/1251/historic/WebApp.html

  Deployment and Stability of Flexible Gliders     1960  Early paragliders using Rogallo wing.
• Preliminary Investigation of Paraglider
• Saturn-Booster Recovery System Test     Test conducted in 1961 in NASA Langley Research Center's 7 ft x 10 ft 300
• Parawing Tested on a XB-70 and M-2 Model     1960 test
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