Xref: utzoo sci.space:11764 sci.space.shuttle:3262 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl From: cjl@ecsvax.UUCP (Charles J. Lord) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: space news from May 1 AW&ST Summary: Gemini was to use Rogollo wing. Message-ID: <7105@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 89 17:18:08 GMT References: <1989May29.032320.2277@utzoo.uucp> <486@cybaswan.UUCP> Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle Organization: Triangle R&D Corp,RTP,NC Lines: 19 In article <486@cybaswan.UUCP>, iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes: > Wasn't this originally invented by Dr Francis Rogallo in about 1963? The > project had been started in an attempt to come up with a method for dry-landing > Apollo (and other) manned space capsules. It was scrapped because NASA found > that the wet-landing system developed over many years worked OK and there > was no real need to change. Yes, but it was the Gemini that was outfitted at least on paper for the Rogallo wing and skids (looked like water skis to me). I seem to remember a 1:1 mockup in a drop test in Missles and Rockets back in '63-64 or so... BTW, wasn't the airfoil really invented by him earlier, like in the mid-1950's? -- * Charles Lord ..!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl Usenet (old) * * Cary, NC cjl@ecsvax.UUCP Usenet (new) * * #include cjl@ecsvax.BITNET Bitnet * * #include cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Internet *