Inglts, a private pitot and World War II Navy fighter
pilot, has tracked animal herds by air in Africa. He
believes that the powered hang glider might be useful
in his field.
"A slow airborne vehicle has a lot of applications
where you can see down into the habitat,” he said.
“I have a project written right now and, it if goes
through, we’ll get one,” Inglis continued. “Maybe not
this one, but at least one that I can fly.
"One of the prerogatives of being the professor,” he
said, smiling and puffing on his pipe. "Graduate stu
dents will have to wait their turn.”
Inglis listed spme other reasons why he thought a
hang glider would be effective in wildlife management.
“We spend a lot of money hiring helicopters,” he
said, "and fixed-wing aircraft go too fast.
Shaffer added a sales pitch: “It can come and go
from practically anywhere, and you can fold it up.”
“You have to follow all the flying regulations, but you
don’t need a pilot’s license or an airworthiness certifi
cate.”
Others received the ground instruction and went
through the taxi phase of the training: Jordan; Inglis;
and Sherri McCloud, an 18-year-old Aggie freshman
from San Antonio.
Each came back to the starting point, smiling as if he
or she knew some secret.
The wind began to pick up and Shaffer called a halt
to the training. It was easy to imagine that, some
where, the ghosts of Wilbur and Orville Wright were
smiling, too.
Paul Shaffer checks Sherri McCloud out on
the proper way to taxi the “Quicksilver.”
photos by Wiley Gilmore
Tim Morse, a Texas A&M graduate student in aeronautical
engineering, after his first flight in a powered hang glider.
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