Word: fogleman
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...folding paper airplanes for his young son Gary. Then one day, Kline, an advertising agency art director in New York, stumbled on a radically new design; it flew more stably than any previous model, and a lot farther as well. He showed the airfoil to a pilot friend, Floyd Fogleman, who concluded that Kline had inadvertently discovered "a whole new concept in aerodynamics...
...case, Kline and Fogleman have not let theoretical questions stand in their way. Sensing the commercial possibilities of the wing, the two have spent some $14,000 on research and development. They also came very close to alienating their wives. "When he'd fly that thing he drove me nuts," recalls Jane Kline. "I was forever ducking around the house. Those models were always coming at me." As expected, Gary, now eleven, was solidly behind the project from the beginning. He frequently accompanied his father on test flights to baseball fields and parks, even to his father...
Enthusiastic as ever about the design, Kline and Fogleman would like to license manufacturing rights, possibly to an aircraft company. They are also considering mass-producing the paper wing as a toy. Whatever use they finally make of it, Kline's creation has already achieved a distinction: it was recently granted U.S. patent No. 3,706,430, perhaps the only one ever derived from a paper airplane...