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Iowa Hang Gliding History

Start: http://www.earlyaviators.com/ebates1.htm
Carl Sterling Bates

See 1898 hang glider in document: http://www.iowadot.gov/histbook.pdf

[JoeF]

See our forum topic on Frank Barnett from Iowa, USA.

See Ahans of Iowa note of March 8, 2012 where he describes is HG interests with some questions: HERE.
So Ahans becomes part of Iowa's HG history.

Iowa may have been the anachronistic birth of Rogallo hang glider craft:

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