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English: Historic photo of designer Richard Miller flying his design "Bamboo Butterfly." A precursor to Richard Miller's construction shown was an article regarding I Flew the Flex Wing (cover's short title), or I Flew the Pterodactyl! Flex-Wing published by Popular Mechanics magazine in the November 1961 issue beginning on page 85; that article was not regarding Richard Miller, but rather Lou Everett of Ryan Aeronautical Company (see I Flew the Pterodactly! Flex-Wing Hottest Thing in Aviation). Richard Miller also himself referenced his communications with pioneer foot-launch Rogallo-wing hang glider builder, designer, and pilot Barry Hill Palmer on Palmer's 1960 to 1962 hang glider work. |
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| Author | George Uveges of Santa Monica, California |
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The photograph is from a slide authored by George Uveges of Santa Monica, California, who is still active in his eighties (2009 note here). George Uveges gave a slide copy to Richard Miller, then editor of Soaring Magazine of the Soaring Society of America, then headquartered at the Santa Monica Airport just 1 mile distant from Geoge Uveges' home. Richard Miller and George Uveges gave permission to Jim Foreman to use the image on the paper-printed plans of the Bat Glider; thousands of copies of the plans were sold by mailorder. The session photographed was definitely not 1961, but a few years later at Dockweiler Beach dunes where now is a developed hang glider flight training park run by Windsports and managed by Joe Greblo. George Uveges may still be contacted for dating the photograph. Since the craft shown and the photograph were formed after 1961, then whatever Popular Mechanics magazine published in November 1961 could not be the plan by Richard Miller for the shown Bamboo Butterfly. Foreman named his planned craft Bat Glider. Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. followed up on the image and plans with his own built and flown craft which Taras named Batso. |
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Licence, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the licence is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation Licence. |
  
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| current | 20:47, 16 February 2007 | | 428 × 500 (158 KB) | wikimediacommons>BatteryIncluded | Author: Unknown. Historic photo of designer Richard Miller flying his design "Bamboo Butterfly", which plans were published by Popular Mechanics magazine in the November 1961 issue. |
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