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Francis Rogallo Parawing Wind Tunnel Testing


Testing of the Parawing
Test of parawing in Full Scale Wind Tunnel.

Photo Credit: NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC)

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Francis Rogallo Parawing


Testing of the Parawing
In December 1961, Langley flight-tested a 50-foot Parawing's ability to bring down safely a model of a manned space capsule from a few thousand feet above Plum Tree Island, an old army bombing range near Langley Field.

Photo Credit:NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC)

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Francis Rogallo Parawing Ramp Testing


Testing of the Parawing
Aboard a truck and ready for a test flight is the Paresev 1-C on the ramp at the NASA Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The half-scale version of the inflatable Gemini parawing was pre-flighted by being carried across the Rosamond dry lakebed on the back of a truck before a tow behind an International Harvester Carry- All. The inflatable center spar ran fore and aft and measured 191 inches, two other inflatable spars formed the leading edges. The three compartments were filled with nitrogen under pressure to make them rigid. The Paresev 1-C was very unstable in flight with this configuration.

Photo Credit: NASA Headquarters - Greatest Images of NASA (NASA-HQ-GRIN) 


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