The Rogallo Foundation

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Man. If I was skinny and not afraid of heights or death, I would take up hang gliding. I went on this hang glider ride at the fair once and it changed my life honestly. I never felt so at peace in the air. I really could have fallen asleep up there. I want that feeling again.

Turns out the hang glider I made out of an old tent was not airworthy and I’d like to apologize to the Scout troop for making them watch their leader scrape down the side of a cliff. They make new faces all the time, and maybe sewing it back on could earn you a badge.

Inside of you is one Homer: what's your Homer?

This is a paper airplane I made last year to mimic the similarities of a hang glider. It used paper, straws, and paper clips. It utilized a Powerup 4.0 unit, which is controlled by Bluetooth.

hello Blue Sky. Here’s a photo from my hang glider over the coast in San Francisco

View of ocean from cliff on sunny day. Hang glider soaring above.

Sharing a calming shot of the ocean. More of a reminder to me to take deep breaths & keep on going.

A monochrome photograph showing a hang-glider having just taken off from the hillside on which the famous Westbury White Horse is located. Originally cut into the hillside in the late 1700s, this feature is regularly cleaned to retain the distinctive shape. The horse is 180 ft (55 m) tall and 170 ft (52 m) wide and has been adopted as a symbol for the town of Westbury

A hang-glider pilot takes off from the hillside of Bratton Down in Wiltshire with the famous Westbury White Horse dating from the late 1770s cut into the hillside.

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How I arrived at Bluesky

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I too have built a homemade propeller-driven aircar.

The photograph shows a young man wearing an aviator's jacket and leather helmet, looking at the camera and sitting in a homemade, propeller-driven "aircar."

‪How we arrived at Bluesky.

(Fran's brother Harold, circa 1928, sitting in their homemade, propeller-driven aircar. Image courtesy of the Rogallo family.)

A teenage Francis Rogallo, wearing aviator jacket and helmet, sitting at the wheel of an open car he built, which used a propeller to produce forward motion.

How we arrived at Bluesky.

(Teenage Francis Rogallo's homebuilt aircar, circa 1928. Image courtesy of the Rogallo family.)

Built this hang-glider more than 50 years ago, from a plan I found in a newsletter called Low and Slow, that recommended to never fly higher than you want to fall. That's my 55 year old daughter with me. Mom helped by sewing the fabric for me!

Beautiful view with hang glider at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park in October.

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A complicated story. . . .

Thank you!

“When men have learned to balance and steer, the age of flying machines will have arrived, for all other difficulties are of minor importance.”

~ Wilbur Wright, c.1905, quoted by General H. H. Arnold in his 1936 book 'This Flying Game'. Photo is Hap at the Wright Flying School.

The Scoop on the NACA Scoop

More than you knew you wanted to know about Francis Rogallo's #NACA scoops and vents. (In the late 1930s, Rog spent so much time experimenting with them at #Langley that his colleagues started calling *him* Scoop.)

www.flyingmag.com/scoop-naca-s...

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“I’m the schmuck who landed on the taxiway.”
~ Harrison Ford, apologizing for human error, on FAA audio tapes:

The Four Forces of flight.

#flying #pilotlife #FAA #aviation #cessna #C172 #flighttraining

We’re building the engine of the plane as it’s falling through the air

A paraglider checks his wing before taking flight. Image was taken outside bohinj Slovenia.

Pre flight check

#photography #slovenia
#bohinj

A photograph from the splash page of the Foundation for Free Flight showing a sand dune and cloudy sky. A set of colorful plastic tubes is laid out on the sand in concentric circles, forming a bullseye. As another person looks on, a hang gliding pilot under a red wing is coming in for a landing, presumably to try to hit the bullseye.

The Foundation for Free Flight is a public charity staffed by free flight pilots who are dedicated to the preservation of hang gliding and paragliding in the United States.

foundationforfreeflight.org

“I began to understand why young men with apparently everything to make them happy on earth persist in leaving it by means of aeroplanes … for the moment makes each one of them a king.“

Richard Harding Davis, in a Wright Model B, Collier's, Sep 1911.

“The art of flying is to perfect the interplay of inertial and gravitational masses.”

Claudia de Rham. A perfect description of flying — from the viewpoint of a physicist working at the interface of gravity, cosmology, and particle physics. She is also a pilot. The Beauty of Falling, 2024.