Francis M. Rogallo SOUTHERN SHORES – Southern Shores engineer, inventor, flight pioneer, loving husband and devoted father, Francis Melvin “Rog” Rogallo passed away peacefully Tuesday, Sept ...

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SOUTHERN SHORES, N.C. - Southern Shores engineer, inventor, flight pioneer, loving husband, and devoted father, Francis Melvin Rogallo 'Rog', 97, passed awa ...

Francis Melvin Rogallo was born Jan. 27, 1912, in Sanger, Calif., then a frontier town near Fresno. His Polish immigrant father, who ran a hotel there, died when Francis was about 12.

The story of the engineer whose aerial invention led to sports like hang gliding and paragliding. Sports like hang gliding and paragliding can trace their origins to engineer Francis Rogallo, the ...

Francis Rogallo, known as “the father of hang gliding,” dies Sept. 1 in Southern Shores. He was 97. Rogallo, with his wife Gertrude, invented a “flexible wing” flier that was the precursor ...

The film spends time with Francis Rogallo, the engineer who designed the first flexible wing to enhance his hobby of kite flying, and John Dickenson, the Australian water skier who melded Rogallo ...

The Rogallo wing stirred the upsurge in the popularity of hang gliding that began in the late 1960s. Francis Rogallo designed this unique wing for his employer, the National Aeronautics and Space ...

Rogallo, who lived on the Outer Banks, invented the flexible wing, Kahle says. That invention laid the groundwork for kite boarding, parachuting, hang gliding, paragliding, and other wind sports.