[Neil Larson]

rare footage from another You Tube channel ...with description info ....
On April 1, 1972 (no kidding) with the help of several friends, Neal Frink piloted the first flight of his homemade hang glider, patterned after the Hang Loose glider from a Popular Mechanics article. The glider was built as a high school physics project out of douglas fir, bamboo, polyurethane plastic, bailing wire, cardboard, and glue at a cost of $32.56. Neal went on to pursue an exciting 30+ year career as an aerospace researcher at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.