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Charles Richards (NASA engineer)

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and was to be found copied only with slight ornamental variation in a decade of hang gliders. Richards was of the Flight Research Center's Vehicle and System Dynamics Branch. The four-beamed wing folded from the nose plate; one of the beams was the spreader beam that kept the flexible-wing's sweep.
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to build quickly a cheap kite glider that could be used to give pilots practice in flying in free flight using simple weight-shifting that would change the attitude of the wing relative to the hung position of the pilot and
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was a design engineer, who designed the collapsible four-tube Rogallo wing used in the experimental
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Those in the following decade copying the Charles Richard wing configuration expanded
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Charles Richard and his key designing is noted in the 407 page online-available book
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Aviation Journal's Aviation News, The Rogallo Parasev: A revolution in flying wings
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1962 February 12 : Charles Richard and his team completed a first
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1961 December : Charles Richard is given a directive from NASA's
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registration. Many versions followed first flight tests.
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On the Frontier: Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981
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2004 Charles Richard name was included in the space
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Index

NASA Paresev
wing
hung-pilot kite-gliders
kiting
hang gliding
ultralight
trike flight
Paul Bikle
kite-glider
FAA
Stardust (spacecraft)
On the Frontier: Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981
"NASA Dryden Paresev Photo Collection"
the original
Paresev
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4303.pdf
"Aviation News Magazine - the Transall C.160"
the original
"Archived copy"
the original
cite web
link
"Stardust - NASA's Comet Sample Return Mission"
Categories
NASA people
American aerospace engineers
Living people

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