Advice on building a RC Hang Glider?

I have been flying R/C gliders for a while now and recently did a 2 day hanggliding course, I was think- ing about making a radio-controlled hangglider but cannot find any information about it at all, except pictures aof full size hanggliders.
Is there such a thing as a R/C hangglider?
If not do you have any suggestions as to how I could go about making one.

Chris, I've heard of them, but they're very rare. I don't know of any kits on the market, but it shouldn't be difficult to scratch build one. I used to teach hang gliding in college, and I had an exact scale free flight 46 inch span hang glider I used as a visual aid in ground school classes. It was a scratch built model of a standard Rogallo type, with an 82 degree nose angle, constructed from aluminum tubing. Scaled up a bit so it would be large enough to carry the weight of a dummy pilot (with the radio inside), and with kite spar structure (or something similar, like arrow shafts) to take the inevitable abuse, it wouldn't be hard to adapt the concept for R/C. For control, rig the pilot in a prone harness and connect a servo (mounted in the shoulders) to each arm. Use elevon mixing in the transmitter to get the pilot to shift side to side for roll and fore and aft for pitch.

The biggest problem is that most full scale hang gliders (especially standard Rogallos) have max glide ratios that can only be described as atrocious! 3 or 4:1 is fairly typical. When you scale this down, the inevitable losses due to the lower Reynolds numbers will probably make it even worse. You will need the lift of a fairly strong wind on a slope to keep it up, but the penetration may be too poor to handle that much wind. About all I can say is try it, at the very least you will have an interesting and unusual model, even if it doesn't fly very well. You might do better modeling one of the more rigid wing types, especially if they have conventional control surfaces.

Good luck!

Don Stackhouse @ DJ Aerotech