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http://www.wainfan.com/pavreport.pdf
NASA LARC NAG-1-03054 Task 01 Final Report February 2004
Feasibility Study of
the Low Aspect Ratio All--Lifting Configuration
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influenced by the Igor Bensen technology (John flew rotary-wing
kite before he did his kiting with the
Rogallo-leadership-influenced Paresev-echoing kite) (Igor had the TCF
with tensionally-hung pilot behind TCF in kite-glider in 1953) flows
and behind the Australian Mike Burns NASA flows in four-boom simple
kite-glider (which included echo of the
at-least-by-1908 hang glider control system) John began
tinkering in 1963 with the already-in-Australia technology
(besides already around-the-world-for-over-50-years well-known
four-boom flexible-wing kite structure) and flew one of his kites
using a single ski on his feet while being towed behind a boat.
Building something that was wholly mechanically a done deal by
others does not give valid invention credit. The delightful
favorite-son nationalistic story of "inventor" being sculpted by GH
has brought out a robust story seasoned with many untenable
exclamations that entertain and spice our hang glider literature that
may be overcome by someone applying critical thinking while facing the
fullness of kiting history. Eventually the Mike Burns prefacer helped
John make about sixty kites for others. Again, making kites does not
win global invention of the mechanicals that had been extant for a 100
years priorly; systems of respect for mechanical inventors would
deeply be wounded if every following maker was "the" global inventor.
Let GH and JD believe any manner of exclamation in a joyful party. But
be prepared to protect merit-based valid global mechanical invention
in order to encourage future inventors in our sport. Help develop the
timeline at
Invention of hang gliders, a collaborative hang gliding
community wiki.
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ultralight weight-shift aircraft
Weightshift Ultralights
"AIR CREATION was founded in 1982 by
Gilles Bru and Jean Yves le Bihan, and has grown steadily ever since,
building around 5,000 wings and 2,800 trike-units for sale in more
than 50 countries."
From their pages: "AIR
CREATION has come up with a major
innovation in the design of the sail to allow it to change its shape
in flight,"
Air Création
BioniX and its Corset
for
"variable configuration wing"
Discuss Corset variable shaper:
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Products
- [ ] Have not found the referred-to patent link yet.
Anyone?
- What in claims are beyond what Girard, Craigo, James, Hand,
and Rogallo disclosed, if so?
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ARTICULATED FOLDING WING STRUCTURE AND
METHOD
Daryl B. Elam
Patent applicaton filed Aug 19, 2004.
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- Perturbators
- Aim contra-rotating vortices
to same space to acceleration destruction of each vortex ...
- Seeing one's own flight
vortices? Making the vortices visible by various means ...
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 Notice
the claims priority date in France at Nov. `4, 1962. Notice that the
attention is on the craft as a glider. This is not just an ideal
parachute, but a governable glider string-controlled; this follows a
tradition supported in pre-1962 for governable string-controlled limp
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All are invited to
contribute to building the Timeline wiki:
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/Invention_of_hang_gliders
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All (even GH)
are invited to contribute politely
without vandalism to the open public wiki:
Kites of John Dickenson
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/Kites_of_John_Dickenson
Let's get robustly clear ...
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 Why
not hang the payload beneath the wing?With
power off we get a big hang glider.
Change the payload....
I knew they should have listed to Otto ....
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Provisional. What is
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Analogically speaking to hang glider designer?
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Filed: December 26, 1962
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http://www.finsterwalder-charly.de/html_eng/main/ueber_uns.php |
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The continued
overclaiming is a challenge now being faced publicly via wiki tool for
all comers, even Mr. Henderson and Mr. Dickenson are invited, to sort
out some drastic over-claims. Anyone is invited to participate:
Kites of John Dickenson
at
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/Kites_of_John_Dickenson
A full appreciation of John's involvement in the Igor Bensen tech flow
is an important matter to get in the story. The 1887 William Beeson
patent that included two-lobe flexible wing with pilot on trapeze and
with weight-shift control from pendulumed pilot is important. The 1908
Breslau hang glider that had the pilot hang behind cable-stayed
triangle control bar makes global invention of any of this matter
impossible for Mr. Dickenson as exclaimed by Mr. Henderson. The FAI
ought to examine the matter carefully to protect the community of
actual hang glider inventors. To build and kite what mechanically was
already invented gives no just right to put oneself forward through
Mr. Henderson as "THE" inventor; very troublesome form.
Thank you. Entered July 8, 2010 to blog owner at
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http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=16895
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:42 pm
A Hair Raising Fire Road Landing
Discussion:
- What a treasure video, Jonathan. This will stand tall to teach
many, I hope. So glad you made the best of a solid challenge and
came through it.
- Terrain near for
perches?
- When was wind
direction realized? "As I
was mid-way through my second turn the wind switched to downhill"
- Last moments
switcharoooooo! Cannot be fun with that.
- "Joshua trees and large rocks everywhere"
- Terrain down slope at 20:1 with your 10:1
wing in some ground effect with a tailwind ...and hoping no Joshua
is close to the side of that road...
- Some JpF thoughts:
- Where are the
wheels when wanted? (WWW).
Omega Hang Gliders.
- Explosive
roller on control bar?
- Explosive
bubble harness and full detachment from wing?
- You mentioned
drogue would have been a bit helpful.
- Future:
triggered sail porosity just have hard flare combined with
explosive bubble harness? Or e-assist emergency motoring for
a turnabout (not purist, but ...)
- Oh where or
where is my 5:1 parachutable kite ????
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- Minimize our
individual risk of becoming stranded when flying XC
- Personal locator beacon
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Deciding to fly is always a bad decision, we are monkeys that should
not fly. Noman3``` |
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application of his superior judgment avoids the need for his superior
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"For me,
the desire to fly
has to overcome
the fear of injury and or death."
Adam Trahan
"Hangwind"
"Flyfisher"
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World's First Gondola Turbine Array Demo USWindlabs
requested on this forum that KiteLab Ilwaco develop and demonstrate
suspended turbine arrays.
The World's First Gondola Turbine Array has been flying for days
without mishap at KiteLab's cableway AWE research center. The array
dynamics are quite nice; one can even loop the entire array like a
jump-rope without fouling. The suspended turbines are built along
KiteLab's well established AWE UltraTurbine (TM) pattern, but with a
swivel to take wind from any direction.
Phase One is complete and the deliverables are presented below
as links.
Phase Two will fly the array on moving cableways from kites.
A video clip:
http://energykitesystems.net/DaveSantos/gondola_turbines.AVI
Detail of the turbines:
http://energykitesystems.net/DaveSantos/gondola_turbine02.jpg
Detail of simple detachable gondola turbine hardware:
http://energykitesystems.net/DaveSantos/gondola_turbine01.jpg
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INVOICE:
To: USWINDLABS
From: KiteLab
Group
Services:
Suspended Multi-Turbine Array R & D (Phase One),
FairIP Gigawatt License for LA area.
Amount Due: $50,000 (includes 50%
AWEIA discount)
Payment Plan Available.
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flexwing hang gliders for it to double as as a skid, an anti-whack
device, and other secondary uses. Exploring various other
downwind downslope landing- management tactics. Send in your ideas.
Notes@HangGliderMagazine.com |
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Disclosed in OZ Report my VC and VT and VCgang#n
The press may be applied on ribs/batten or only at sail between the
rib/batten stations. First explore
between the rib/batten stations. July 9, 2010, for
disclosure. |
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Low-canard anti-beak
devices
http://www.energykitesystems.net/TCF/index.html
Working file. All are welcome. |
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They "kettle" ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_(birds)
"An estimated 95% of the North American population of Broad-winged
Hawks (Buteo platypterus) fly over the Corpus Christi Hawk Watch
site at Hazel Bazemore Park every fall in monster flights called
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Bermuda
Petrel (Pterodroma cahow) |
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"Wish
turbine" defined by Doug Selsam, July 14, 2010::
"for turbines that are based on a wish, rather than the actual wind."
M1809 |
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Christians have Acts of the Apostles, Chapter
1, verse 9: {1:9}
"And when he had said these things, while they were watching,
he was lifted up,
and a cloud took him from their sight."
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JpF sent further: July 21, 2010: Spring out sled from
beneath control bar held by hinged legs that stow to front of TCF
legs; at trigger, the sled pops out forward and attains a sledding
angle of attack; the sled is as wide as the basebar of TCF and is
stayed off by two or more set-offs from the bottom of the TCF legs and
basebar. Ratchet lock prevents return when rocks or brush are hit.
Much broader tread than wheels by far; and the basebar does not get
caught by rocks or brush or sand or gravel or holes; rather, the wide
sled skips or sleds over the top of the obstructions.
Primary sketches are in spiral notebook used while waiting at the
hospital on July 20, 2010, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital near Beverly
Center.
Roughing
research by all interested.. |
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about:
AEROS
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Distributors |
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Lesson from Greblo: use both hands when breaking open harness
Velcro--pry the Velcro apart. |
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- Paul Voight <flyhigh>
- Son: Ryan Voight
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http://knumbknuts.blogspot.com/
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http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6788065/
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Good morning, Dan,
July 28, 2010
Dimensions and aspects: Dream, flying, hardware, commercial
dreams, lifestyle dreams, organization-bent players, early interests,
egos, investment levels, etc. were aspects playing. Forces from
age-old gliding seeped into conversations and meeting; the influence
of Soaring Society of America was ever close in one way or another.
The pride of commercial airline pilots wanting to touch self-soaring
was at play. The use of mail and typewriter in the hands of a kite
dreamer was weaving its influences (yours truly). Reflective
revisionist histories differ in many details and focii to make for a
multi-prong "history" where each ego-center provides a perspective
that delights. Timeline has fuzzy overlaps; anyone wanting a tight
linear story will miss the rich spectrum of influences. Influences of
early gliding were present in the communications from Klaus Hill and
Richard Miller. Influences from NASA arrived in early meetings through
aerodynamicists Irv Culver, Bruce Carmichael, Peter Lissamen, and
others. Plays were made in the background to assure the Soaring
Society of America would not get hurt, but finally be blessed; guards
were up to protect "soaring" while this "self-soaring" energy played
its dance. My game played many roles and polarities were played
deliberately, but I had a firm decision to encourage final peace and
wholeness in the broad gliding community, and so I kept close to
Soaring Society of America even while doing spontaneous combustion
actions of org creation with the formation of Self-Soar Association
early on without democracy, but with benevolent dictatorial stepping
but with intent to spark the initiation of manufacturing and club
formation ...which happened. Core combustions happened; San Diego
interests were played until meetings occurred and then support was
given to the fetal meetings via my press, assist in printing ...like
Grass Skimmer and also the first issues of Ground Skimmer. Then the
Peninsula guys were given boost and they jumped strong to drive a
manufacturing strand. I formed US HangGlider Association as a polarity
ploy to urge things to get going. We gathered also to form Southern
California group with first high-level meetings that occurred in Santa
Monica with high-level old-time Soaring Society-Hang-Glider
interest....which fast was seened as the entry point for Soaring
Society of America's staff Lloyd Licher to lead toward formal
conventional organizing, which I realized would be the end game with
ratings and insurance, a space I personally had no time for, but
realized the inevitable. My actions for 18 months or so seeded points
of conversation that blossomed to meetings to clubs to serving
manufacturers. The movement then exploded with our first meets. We had
hardware influence from Horten, from NASA, from the fullness of
Soaring Society of America, and deep aerodynamicists; our best
participants had tabs on the full history of airframes and wings.
Neil Larson has hold of the Gas Company meetings with notes and
photographs.
Historian@HGAUSA.com whom I copy this.
I easily formally relinquished "United States Hang Glider Association"
with non-competition contract to the Gas Company meeting just as
decision was made to have "United States Hang Gliding Association" as
the name for the grown group. I was then able to stay busy with my
spawning actions within 23 nations via mail, Low & Slow, and
Hang Glider Weekly.
I ever stepped aside of org contention and just put my energies into
ever-freshening birthings in activity and hardware.
As yet, I believe that third-party insurance is not needed; we can fly
and practice to avoid injuring others.
As yet, I believe that local clubs' mentoring could be so rich in text
and action that broad national "ratings" are not needed, until such as
special interests of commerce, competition, organized sport, and
FAI-type interests come to play their aspects....then insurance works
its way into the scene: assemblies, formal sponsored meets, etc.
...bring on insurance industry. And there is ever the pride of
progress and badge of inclusion that encourages badges, signs,
symbols.....ratings. But the insurance and overtone of org people seem
to me to bring on "vanilla" results where variety and niche
applications get second fiddle to what can be tolerated by
manufacturers and the insurance industry.
Even the present Scott thing just flys by me as I look for any next
positive step for HGAA. Anyone right now could write a paragraph in
the started HGTM in the wiki space at HangGliding.org to further a
project that has the potential to deeply affect growth:
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/Hang_Gliding_Training_Manual
Vision all who have a gem ...posting in an appropriate section to
benefit all. No longer just a Pagen text, but a text that could gather
the best that we all might muster. Illustrations and links. Photos and
video support. All relatively free for all new and old comers. Each
page and section could have question and answer connects. Honor
system. All changes maintain a history.
Internet and Wiki space aside of forums bring a new world and new set
of opportunities.
Niche Hang Gliding Activity:
http://www.hgausa.com/nicheHGA.html
Offered to HGAA is
www.HangGliderMagazine.com
String-controlled paragliding will continue to grow exponentially in a
manner that seems to warrant full focus by a United States Paragliding
Association (could morph from present USHPA). Frame-controlled hang
gliding could be in USA with HGAA either as through present HGAA TT or
in handshake with a morphed USHPA into two distinct branches: USPA and
HGAA. It is timely. PowerKiting, parachuting, skydiving, base-jumping,
paragliding .... string-controlled governable free-flight kiting modes
are receiving market presence that is distinct from frame-controlled
hang gliders. Ultimately busable frame-controlled
quick-ups-quick-packs will arrive and invite a new renaissance of
self-soaring frame-controlled hang gliding, but that is not here yet
(but definitely coming).
There is in HGAA some TT spirit that is simply pro-refresh and pro-new
(with no cause for stereotyping into any anti-extant-Org); how we find
our way is still fuzzy. Stumbles can be positively taken as
opportunity for learning.
Lift,
Joe
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I added the reference to the bow wing that you found.
Flexible
airframe flying wing (1980) Janos J. Linczmajer.
And see study being unfolded at:
http://www.laboratoridenvol.com/projects/rwbow/index.en.html
best regards,
Pere[ED: Consider: William Beeson in 1897:
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http://www.svs-design.nl/webshop/index.php |
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Non-motorized aircraft
flight control system
Geoffrey Di Bella
Patent number : 5904324
Filing date: Mar 24, 1995
Click through image to study 49 claims:
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Patent number: 1123729
Filing date: Sep 23, 1909 |
Filed: June 12, 1908 |
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http://www.irelandinformationguide.com/List_of_years_in_aviation |
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Want to hang glide your skydive chute?
http://www.bigairsportz.com/art-howgroundlaunch.php
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http://www.sonorawings.com/
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Faust-TCF Skid and "skid
landing"
hang gliding |
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Help for a national "frame-controlled"
hang gliding organization:
http://groups.google.com/group/hgaa
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Hello,
Reviewing my old papers I found some artistic and technical HG/PG
drawings and
designs. I have scanned and uploaded to the web. They are basically
little pictures and notes,
rescued from annotations of my student days...
Hang glider and paraglider artistic and technical drawings
(1988-1997):
http://picasaweb.google.com/113539366319690635665/HGPGArtisticalAndTechnicalDrawings?authkey=Gv1sRgCNDj4cOY-cP-LQ#
Hang glider designs (1993):
Xtralight (Ultralite crosstube-less standard hang glider)
http://www.laboratoridenvol.com/projects/xtralight/xtralight.en.html
LABClassic (Simple surface classic HG)
http://www.laboratoridenvol.com/projects/Labclassic/labclassic.en.html
ctlss (Crosstube-less single surface hang glider with tip winglets)
http://www.laboratoridenvol.com/projects/ctlss/ctlss.en.html
best regards,
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