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Strange wing
I stumbled on this cool history of paragliding site after looking for tattoo designs.
Really weird wing if you ask me
Enjoy and sorry if its a repost Tongue

http://www.paraglidingzone.com/history/


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Re: [dan_inagap] Strange wing
Barish Sailwing. Very sweeeeeet
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Re: [dan_inagap] Strange wing
A few acro pilots built a replica and tried to dbag it from a few thousand feet, they could not get it flying. it was for an event. pretty coo idea though. ram air is a bit better it seems.
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Re: [dan_inagap] Strange wing
threads like this are why i sift through the noise on this site. very cool! Smile
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Re: [Calvin19] Strange wing
Calvin19 wrote:
A few acro pilots built a replica and tried to dbag it from a few thousand feet, they could not get it flying. it was for an event. pretty coo idea though. ram air is a bit better it seems.
Francis Heilmann flew his replica in France a couple of years ago
http://www.air.aventure.free.fr/infos_barish.htm
http://www2005.coupe-icare.org/DavidBarish.html