Beloved Father of Hang Gliding Dies

Francis Rogallo, 1912-2009

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August, September, October

A-I-R Airborne Icaro Moyes North Wing Seedwings US Aeros Wills Wing

2009 August LIFT
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• Tribute to Otto Lilienthal and Stephan Nitsch
   

• Tony Prentice sent cool link for Worthing Birdman videos, stills, and news: HERE. "The big flyers of the day were Toby Quantrill at 75m, Roy Freeman at 82.03m and the longest flight was by Steve Elkins at 99.87m, just 13cm off the 100 metre goal."

• SPEEDLAB 16 m² speedglider plans
  The SPEEDLAB is a reduced version of the gnuEASY, with some variations:
  - Removal of the profile number 12 (even simpler)
  - Removal of all mylar reinforcements
  - Leading edge improved with fiberglass rods 2 mm (rigifoil)
  - Area reduced to 16 m2, then, very little consumption of ripstop tissue (46 ml) and dyneema lines (185 m).
  - Inexpensive, and easy to build...
  best regards,
  Pere
   

• Sellers .... 5 BHP quad

•  The 2009 CAFE Foundation Electric Aircraft Symposium

• Mickey Sarraille  (Kcal9 TV featured his story and flying all day August 17, 2009.

• Cristiano Augusto Trein

• Space Elevator get touched by Microsoft, Inc. Then see several vids.  Buy your hang glider launch tickets soon?

• Space Elevator

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• Enter the brainstorming fun session on
  "beginning and ending PG flying
  at 1000 m above ground level (AGL)"  (This is very different from common practice.)
   

• Electric Motors and Controllers for Use in Sailplanes,
  Ultralights, and Light Sport Aircraft  Dean Sigler M.Ed. (Recall Dean Sigler's prior LIFT feature; he has a special interest in "sustainer power pack for sailplanes".)
  "Most model motors in the size ranges of interest in this presentation are brushless, and are
  either inrunners or outrunners"
   

• Martin Glider

• Charles Hampson Grant

• http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/katydid-glider.html

• Lawrence J. Lesh in Glider Flight at Morris Park
  from The Aeronautic Society Bulletin No. 1, 1908

• http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~saf2008/en/history.html

• Hang glider pioneer Tom Peghiny features eSpyder at show

• Puenting

• Ludwig Wittgenstein In 1906, Wittgenstein began studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, and in 1908 he went to the Victoria University of Manchester to study for his doctorate in engineering, full of plans for aeronautical projects. "Voluntary Observer for the Kite Station"
  
  
  Swift Light:

• Swift Light

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  • Solar Airplane Debuts Before ‘Round-the-World Flight

  • Plug and Fly: The Battery-Powered Plane Makes Its Debut

  • Electric Airplanes Take Flight. Get Yours Now

   

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