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rogallo

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rogallo [rəˈgæləʊ]
n pl -los
(Engineering / Aeronautics) a flexible fabric delta wing, originally designed as a possible satellite retrieval vehicle but actually developed in the 1960s as the first successful hang-glider
[after Francis M. Rogallo, the US engineer who designed it]
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The triangular wings are known to aeronautical engineers as Rogallo wings, with their origins going back to the late 1940s.
OBITUARY; Francis Rogallo by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
What aerial technique was perfected by US engineer Francis Rogallo in the 1970s?
TIME OUT: Quiz of the Day by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Among the aircraft he flew was a Rogallo paraglider, which was used to study the possibility of using an inflatable wing for landing spacecraft, and wingless ``lifting-body'' aircraft.
FAMED TEST PILOT BRUCE PETERSON DIES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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