A HIstory of Hang Gliding
How the sport started and spread across the world
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Beschreibung des Verlags
This is a new book on the history of the sport right from the very first days. It shows how the original inspiration for the earliest experimental hang gliders came from the preliminary investigations in the late 1950s by NASA into a flexible wing re-entry glider for returning manned space vehicles safely to Earth.
The author traces where the first hang glider flights were made and how the glider designs evolved over the years. He looks at the way the sport spread around the world and how the pilots organised themselves into Clubs and Associations dedicated to protecting the rights of free fliers.
Mark Woodhams was one of the first people to fly hang gliders in the UK in 1974 and has been deeply involved with the sport ever since. He has written extensively in Wings!, Skywings and in many hang gliding books and magazines all over the globe, and was a founder member of the BHGA and the SHGC.
Kundenrezensionen
A book for Real Aviators.
I saw my first Hang Glider, a ski kite, on the River Torrens in Adelaide, South Australia. I was 11. Four years later in July 1974 my Dad bought a Wasp 229B3 kit. It's was a summer holiday project. I was 15 and home from boarding school at Oakham. We made brackets, bent tubes, drilled holes and assembled it together. Then in the following days at Steyning Bowl taught ourselves to fly. What fun that was. Dad, a former Fleet Air Arm pilot was a natural aviator. I was, at the age of 15, fearless. We succeeded. A year later my longest soaring flight was 28 minutes at Mill Hill. I never looked back and made a career in aviation. This book captures the spirit of the time. People, names, places and gliders familiar to me from the British Hang Gliding scene, that were/are part of British Aviation History in the making. The book is accurate and a good read. Well done and thank you for taking the time to record our past. E. H.