Rogallo, FM (English name) RogalloFM

Japanese: Rogallo,F.M.(英語表記)RogalloFM
Rogallo, FM (English name) RogalloFM

…All early gliders were attempted using this method, and the successful one by the Lilienthal brothers in the late 19th century was also a hang glider, but it was forgotten with the development of high-performance fixed-wing gliders. In the 1950s, FM Rogallo of the National Aeronautics and Aeronautics Administration (NACA) invented a glider with flexible triangular sail-like wings that could be easily folded and deployed for spacecraft recovery. It was not used for its original purpose, but in the late 1960s it was converted into a sport in which a man hangs from it and glides down a slope, and it became known as the Rogallo glider and spread to Europe and Japan in the 1970s. …

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Japanese:

…もともと初期のグライダーはすべてこの方式で試みられ,19世紀後半に成功したリリエンタール兄弟のものもハンググライダーであったが,その後固定翼の高性能グライダーの発展とともに忘れ去られた存在となっていた。1950年代に,アメリカ航空局(NACA)のロガロF.M.Rogalloは,宇宙船の回収用として,おりたたみと展開が容易にできる三角形の帆のような可撓翼をもつグライダーを考案した。これは本来の目的には使用されなかったが,60年代後半になると人間がぶら下がって斜面を滑空するスポーツに転用され,ロガロ型グライダーとも呼ばれて70年代にはヨーロッパ,日本へも広まった。…

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