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In article <486@cybaswan.UUCP>, iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:
> Wasn't this originally invented by Dr Francis Rogallo in about 1963? The
> project had been started in an attempt to come up with a method for dry-landing
> Apollo (and other) manned space capsules. It was scrapped because NASA found
> that the wet-landing system developed over many years worked OK and there
> was no real need to change.

Yes, but it was the Gemini that was outfitted at least on paper
for the Rogallo wing and skids (looked like water skis to me).
I seem to remember a 1:1 mockup in a drop test in Missles and
Rockets back in '63-64 or so...

BTW, wasn't the airfoil really invented by him earlier, like in the
mid-1950's?
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