Flying His Flexible Kite. Francis Rogallo, an aeronautical research scientist at the Langley laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Virginia, flies his non-rigid type kite--no slats, spokes, stocks crossbeams, ribs or frame of any kind--which can dive, loop, climb like mad and do many other things an ordinary rigid type kite can’t do. Rogallo calls it Flexikite.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. April 1953]

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