Hang Glider History

Project:
Global project for comprehensive history of hang glider designing, construction, and application.
Your hang glider history notes for publication are invited: notes@hanggliderhistory.com
Note: Herein the various PG formats (gliding kites) are generically a subset of hang gliders, as are other gliding parachutes. Also, hung-mass parasol-dominant gliders and kite-glider systems are understood in this history as hang gliders. The mechanical arts shaping aircraft that have been borrowed for instructing scientific, commercial, and sport hung-mass glider systems is to be fully integrated in the history. Design and use is a fuzzy art; the fullness of hobby, scientific exploration, sport, recreational, and practical commercial applications of hang gliders invite recognition and appreciation of many people specially forwarding hang gliders.