Most of the images on this page are my artistic derivations of contemporary photos. Others are largely unedited photos by Hugh Morton. See Copyrightof early hang gliding photos.
NASA engineer F.M. Rogallo gave his name to the technology, although others played greater parts in its development. (See Flex-wings in Earliest hang gliders.) Pete Brock taught Rogallo fly a a Rogallo wing in about 1973 at Torrance Beach, California (see Brock teaches Rogallo to fly in Torrance Beach) but Jockey’s Ridge was Rogallo’s ‘home site.’
New KHK building at Jockey’s Ridge in early 1980Wills Wing seminar at KHK in 1981 (no larger image available)F.M. Rogallo trying the Flight Dynamics hang glider simulator at Kitty Hawk Kites in 1990 (no larger image available)
KHK newer premises in 1996Pilot training in North Carolina in about 2009. Photo by John Eager.
External links
Hang Gliding at Jockey’s Ridge, Kitty Hawk Kites Hang Gliding School — a video by Cathy Anderson on YouTube that imparts a thoroughly modern impression of the pilot training experience
Its a Kind of Magic by Andy Torrington, about Kitty Hawk Kites and the history of hang gliding at Jockey’s Ridge, in Hang Gliding & Paragliding, August 2011