Below is information contributed by members of a hang glider history yahoo mailing list, for which I am most grateful and will use to work further on this article. I have removed a direct link to a potentially-copyrighted image (we can't risk using somebody's copyrighted material) --Robert Merkel |
Many early experiments with gliding flight throughout the late 1800s were performed using craft that would now be considered hang gliders, and interest in the sport continued throughout the early twentieth century.
Below is information contributed by members of a hang glider history yahoo mailing list, for which I am most grateful and will use to work further on this article. I have removed a direct link to a potentially-copyrighted image (we can't risk using somebody's copyrighted material) --Robert Merkel
Go to: http://home.t-online.de/home/LilienthalMuseum/intro.htm for photo source, a great site.
http://home.t-online.de/home/LilienthalMuseum/f0005.jpg"
LINKS:
http://home.t-online.de/home/LilienthalMuseum/intro.htm
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/montgomery/montgomery.htm
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