Dave Cronk happily reports some further items on the Cronksail: •File is 1.5 mb high resolution image of specification sheet on Cronksail I and the Cronksail II. Must visit the page! • Good to hear from both of you. I think the image was taken near La Paz Rd in Orange County. I think I also see the Quacksilver and Quicksilver # 2 or 3 down at the bottom of the hill. I have attached a few images of the wing I did in 73. It was flown extensively by myself and others, and it flew pretty well. Influences were Richard Miller and, of course, Franks beautiful wing. Taras came out with the Icarus V at just about the same time. We did many side-by-side flights at Torrance and Torrey. He had a performance advantage, but not by a large margin. Tom Price did the sail for me. We experimented with many wing sections and twist arrangements, and finally got it working pretty well. Im not sure why I did not pursue this any further; perhaps because of all of the other flex-wing and Quicksilver projects I had on my plate. Several years later(?) Klaus Hill and Jeff Magnan* followed with the Fledgling and Sundance designs respectively. Frank, if you could pass me any images of this wing I would really appreciate it. I have started building a hang-gliding library of images, and have a Hang-Gliding folder on my Facebook page. Hope all is well, Dave
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:00:51 +0000
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