No parawings,no parasails in today’s NASA’s capsule’s recovering system. Just conventional round parachutes.

Chapter 8Afterword

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott ##

The bulk of this book has been looking at the trees, these pages are looking at the forest. One view does not negate the other, for they are just different ways of looking at the same truth.

Sections

The authors have been careful to detail the story, to analyse data, and to refrain from personal interpretation, even when calling out the many layers of lies they found.
Section 8.1A Farce
The modern hang glider comes from the Dickenson Gliders, and the modern paraglider from Jalbert’s multi-cell ram-air parachutes.
Section 8.2Hang Gliding and Paragliding