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Description
| Manufacturer: | Ryan | |
| Base model: | V-8 | |
| Designation: | XV-8 | |
| Version: | A | |
| Nickname: | Fleep | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1956-Present | |
| Basic role: | V/STOL | |
| Status: | Experimental | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Recent comments by our visitors
| Joe Faust , CA | The wing designed for the Fleep and also the wing designed by Charles Richards formed foundations for Mike Burns Skiplane. The same two-lobe four-beamed wing later was found embedded in standard Rogallos. The supposed blindness of Dickenson does not win mechanical invention globally; that would be severely unfair to the fact that the wing was already in the world. The 1908 cable-stayed triangle control frame for hang gliders was in hang gliders. No mechanical invention--globally speaking--can be given to the Dickenson item, only "local-boy tinkering ornamental inventing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Paresev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Richards_(NASA_engineer)http://tinyurl.com/CharlesRichardsWINGDESIGNER HTTP://HangGliderHistory.com See Francis Rogallo's note; he was not expert on distinguishing between mechanical invention and ornamental appearance invention, but he was aware that others were trying to get unearned mechanical invention. 10/02/2008 @ 15:04 [ref: 22782] |
| Graeme Henderson Queensland, OTH | The Comments about the fleep being involved in the design of the original modern hang gliders, the Dickenson Wings that were wrongly called Standard Rogallos, are without intellectual merit, and are made dishonestly by messers Faust and Farell who have taken it upon themselves to spread these lies.
The modern hang gliders were invented in Australia by John Dickenson, without any reference to the fleep at all. See http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/edick.htm The FAI has recognised John Dickenson for this invention. It is unfortunate that dishonest people have set out to corrupt history in the way these two individuals have. Graeme Henderson 11/02/2007 @ 22:07 [ref: 18385] |
| Joe Faust Los Angeles, CA | The WING utilized in the Fleep
and the Paresev 1B kite-hang-gliders became the template for Rogallo wing hang gliders, especially those generally known as Standard Rogallos. The gliding by the hanging-gliding Paresev pilots in 1962 was actually after Barry Palmer --for sport-- made and flew a series of foot-launched and foot-landed hang gliders using the Fleep wing and its ornamental appearance as his guide. Barry Palmer deliberately rejected sole use of the ski-kite or George Spratt triangular control frame trapeze while he opted to have BOTH the triangle control part AND the parallel beam parts in order to explore the centers of lift and balance in his pioneering hang glider flights; he had the triangle control part at his rear to limit rearward positioning of his mass while he moved fore and aft along the frontal hardened stays to adjust for pitch. He also finally used a swing seat as armpits were getting sore. The the wing of the Fleep in its process and ornamental design was mechanically resurrected in the Paresev program In all, the notes and images broadcasted about the Fleep and Paresev implanted helped to form an interest that caused in large part the blossoming of the modern sport of hang gliding. We are tracing the Fleep's wing and the Paresev wing in the notes at HangGliderHistory.com where peole may freely add notes for the curating editors. 10/10/2007 @ 14:37 [ref: 18154] |
| Gerry , PA | Specifications:
Ryan XV-8A Fleep STOL Experimental Vehicle Length : 5.94m Wing Span : 10.18m Engine : Continental IO-360-A (210hp) X 1 Max Speed : 105Km/h Crew : 1 http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/VTOL/USAR-VTOL.htm 08/08/2007 @ 21:55 [ref: 17527] |
