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Media:US3576298.pdf North American Winged Apollo CSM Category:Publications Category:Patent

File:SPACESHIP SKYLAB- WINGS OF DISCOVERY.mp4 Category:Movie

... the Rogallo wing. The Gemini was supposed to land on land, and it landed on skids, not skis, not wheels, okay. The Gemini was supposed to have a parachute, then deploy the Rogallo wing ... , yes, we were very, very enthusiastic about that. Rockwell caught the job to do the Rogallo wing, and at JSC here, one Scotty H. Simpkinson was working with quality and safety with ... one line forward so that you held the vehicle pretty level. Okay. So when the Rogallo wing effort was terminated, then the skis were terminated and then that’s when McDonnell said ...

... Organization , called the Gnat—however you spell “gnat,” things that buzz around. I did some wing structural design. I'd just come out of the Air Force, wanted me to start ... 's a triangular device, totally flexible. It was designed by a fellow named Francis M. Rogallo, who was a Langley research engineer, brilliant guy. Designed initially, I think, as a sport ... it by moving side to side. Still do that today. So it's called a Rogallo Wing. Rogallo was a great friend, I guess, of Bob Gilruth. In Gemini it was thought that ...

... &A, 8/68)'' U.S. patent No. 3,396,921 was issued to Francis M. Rogallo, head of low-speed vehicle branch at LaRC, for control devices to regulate pitch and ... paraglider planned for Apollo Applications flights. Rogallo and his wife Gertrude had developed paraglider-called Rogallo wing -under NASA contract. It was free-flight vehicle with flexible wings which could be extended upon reentry ...

... north of Bombay. High interest in the Rogallo-wing concept among amateur aircraft-builders reported to have concerned NASA developers since apparent simplicity of the flexible wing offers serious trouble. Rep. Edgar Hiestand ...

... the new guidance system for these rockets, which would make guided descent with assistance of Rogallo wing . Largest German space project was production of third stage for ELDO launch vehicle, which would ...

Manned Rogallo-wing paraglider built by NASA's Flight Research Center launched by automobile tow from Rogers Dry ...

... would probably begin flying and making landings in West or South Texas in 1963, using Rogallo wing and landing skids. Disclosed that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. differed on ...

... re-entry from first orbital flight, in 1963. Landing mode for the spacecraft would include Rogallo wing and skids. Massachussetts Institute of Technology MIT ordered a Honeywell 1800 electronic computer from Honeywell ...

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