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The annual Rogallo Kite Festival, held for the past twenty-three years at Jockey's Ridge State Park in Nags Head, honors Francis and Gertrude Rogallo. A NASA engineer, Rogallo, along with his wife, is credited with inventing the flexible wing in 1948. In the 1960s, use of the wing launched the sport of hang gliding. Since 1974, Kitty Hawk Kites has instructed over 300,000 people in the techniques of hang gliding.
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2069
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Where the Wright Brothers once flew, hang gliders now soar from Jockey's Ridge on the Outer Banks. John Harris, founder and owner of Kitty Hawk Kites, estimates he has taught 170,000 people to hang glide since 1974.
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6258
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Seventy-five years after the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, a new form of flying dominates the skies there - hang gliding. Ames discusses this exciting new sport; Francis Rogallo, the inventor of hang gliding; and John Harris, who operates a hang gliding school.
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5960
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Where the Wright Brothers once flew, hang gliding, enthusiastically called \"skysurfing,\" has emerged as an exciting new sport. Elliot discusses the sport's popularity and the hang glider's inventor, NASA scientist Dr. Francis M. Rogallo.
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