Francis Melvin Rogallo (January 27, 1912 – September 1, 2009) was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U.S. Together...

The Rogallo wing is a flexible type of wing. In 1948, Francis Rogallo, a NASA engineer, and his wife Gertrude Rogallo, invented a self-inflating flexible...

husband, Francis Rogallo, invented the wing and obtained two United States patents on different versions of it in the early 1950s. Rogallo wings are...

Francis Rogallo's flexible wing and subsequent development by the Paresev engineering team's innovations and then others. On 1948, engineer Francis Rogallo...

engineer Francis Rogallo invented a self-inflating wing which he patented on March 20, 1951 as the Flexible Wing, also known as the flexwing and Rogallo wing...

the kite-parachute studies by NASA engineer Francis Rogallo. Between 1961 and 1965 the ability of the Rogallo wing (also called "Parawing") to descend a...

showing the hind wings reduced to drumstick-shaped halteres In 1948, Francis Rogallo invented a kite-like tensile wing supported by inflated or rigid struts...

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innovation that led to modern hang gliders was in 1951 when Francis Rogallo and Gertrude Rogallo applied for a patent for a fully flexible wing with a stiffening...

gliders. Although tested for spacecraft descent, no Rogallo types have been used by NASA. Francis Rogallo evolved his trademark double-delta "parawing" during...

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businesspeople – Sears, Roebuck, now Sears. Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer/inventor - Rogallo wing. Leonard James Rogers , British mathematician...

inventor of the modern baseball pitching machine Francis Rogallo - engineer at NASA, designed the Rogallo wing, which found its greatest success in hang...

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Produced in November 1964. Changes: sewn sail. Diagrams of this sent to Francis Rogallo at NASA. In 1965, John leaves Grafton for Sydney. Produced between...

by designs of Francis Rogallo and Domina Jalbert, which were used in televised water skiing shows and movies in the 1960s. The Rogallo wing's simple design...

Verdon Roe (1877–1956) Francis Rogallo (1912–2009) – NASA engineer, created the Rogallo wing which led to hang-gliding Gertrude Rogallo (1914–2008) – wife...

television director (d. 1989) Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009) Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2009) January 28 – Jackson Pollock...

Rocket launch – Rogallo wing – is a flexible type of wing. In 1948, Francis Rogallo, a NASA engineer, and his wife Gertrude Rogallo, invented a self-inflating...

UK – lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis Francis Rogallo (1912–2009), U.S. – Rogallo wing Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013), together with Gerd...

control of a foot-launched hang glider. On 23 November 1948, Francis Rogallo and Gertrude Rogallo applied for a kite patent for a fully flexible kited wing...

Maximum speed: 65 mph (105 km/h, 56 kn) Range: 120 mi (193 km, 100 nmi) Francis Rogallo's airfoil John W. Dickenson History of hang gliding Ultralight trike...

philosopher and environmentalist (d. 2009) 1912 – Francis Rogallo, American engineer, invented the Rogallo wing (d. 2009) 1913 – Michael Ripper, English actor...

winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. January 27 – Francis Rogallo (died 2009), American aeronautical engineer. January 30 – Werner Hartmann...

designed by Paul Garber, a key gunnery practice target in war. Francis Melvin Rogallo, inventor of a fully flexible kite in 1948, also filed a patent...

subsonic and supersonic flight. At the other end of the speed scale, the Rogallo flexible wing proved a practical design for the hang glider and other ultralight...

1961), inventor, builder and pilot of the first hang glider based on the Rogallo wing or flexible wing. Palmer also designed, built and flew the first weight-shift...

of the few modern inventions in the world of kite design. Although Francis Rogallo's early kite patents had ram-air members in the claims, Domina Jalbert's...

Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure. Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor (Rogallo wing). John Stephens, 43, American football player...

27 – Francis Rogallo, aeronautical engineer (died 2009) January 28 – Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionist painter (died 1956) January 30 Francis Schaeffer...