- Thu May 26, 2016 4:29 pm
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Here is my short page about the Sky Sports Sirocco. Sky Sports was a prominent east coast HG manufacturer in the 1970s. Long gone, so I figured this topic belongs beside the camp fire, where we sit and look at the pictures in Ground Skimmer and Glider Rider...
https://everardcunion.wordpress.com/mid ... rocco/#top
It draws on information and photos provided by Chris Gonzales, who also sent some info on other Sky Sports wings.
With any luck, I will obtain enough material to turn it into a page about Sky Sports, the manufacturer, rather than just the Sirocco. There was something uniquely spectacular about the three-dimensional shape of some Sky Sports hang gliders that, in my opinion, has rarely if ever been equalled. The Sirocco II and the Kestrel 1 particularly.
https://everardcunion.wordpress.com/mid ... rocco/#top
It draws on information and photos provided by Chris Gonzales, who also sent some info on other Sky Sports wings.
With any luck, I will obtain enough material to turn it into a page about Sky Sports, the manufacturer, rather than just the Sirocco. There was something uniquely spectacular about the three-dimensional shape of some Sky Sports hang gliders that, in my opinion, has rarely if ever been equalled. The Sirocco II and the Kestrel 1 particularly.