Ken de Russy has at least two heroes in this world. One is his brother Larry, who introduced him to the sport of hang gliding back in 1973. The second is Australian designer Richard Dickenson, the ...

“We returned ... with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.” — Otto Lilienthal, 1874. Those words, written by a hang gliding pioneer, speak of a rich history ...

Click to open image viewer. Taras Kiceniuk, Jr., designed this revolutionary tailless, rigid-wing, hang glider. Like the flexible wing, Rogallo-type hang gliders that preceeded it, one person could ...

Click to open image viewer. Flight instructor William H. Wolf designed the Valkyrie specifically to fly well above the flat terrain of the Mid-West. Wolf was dissatisfied with the flying qualities of ...