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HOMEMADE ROGALLO KITE (builded in 1979)
When long ago (in 1979) in my country arrives new sport
- HANG GLIDING, I decided to make the Rogallo wing by myself. One group of hang
gliding enthusiasts give me a set of tubes and wires and some hints how to do
it. I bolt all together and connect the wires. Because Dacron was to expencive
and out of reach for me, I made the sail from PVC plastic foil, as I read in the
book of Dan Poynter describing beginings of this sport. (Bible for hang gliders
at that days..long time ago...). It was glued with ordinary packing tape. For the
harnes I use a rope attached to the top of A frame. For "more comfort" the rope
was surrounded by cloth. Me and my friend Ivan (there is he on the right picture) who also help me with this project)
flew with this kite for about 1 year. We manage to fly over 200m in length and
over 5 m in height. It was fun and without any accident. It was interesting,
that performance of the kite was changing with temperature, because the sail
strech or shrink in different weather.
This was the frst homemade flyable thing that I build and fy with it.