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PLATE 4: KIT INSPECTION AND WING MENDING, BRAUNTON BURROWS. Eventually, Peter began to warm to the task of making the gliders flyable. Abandoning the stiff, heavy oak frames for lighter, more flexible ash, he reconfigured the design into a more aerodynamic shape, over which he stretched and restretched the rawhide over a period of days, trimming it each time until it was gossemer-light.
