Bamboo Hang Gliders
arts, science, craft, history, commentary
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This folder of files, essays, and comments is an evolving adventure.
We await for there to be an online group to be formed with a dedication to bamboo hang glider building and flying.

• Brett Snellgrove comments re: bamboo in gliders
• Alberto Santos-Dumont visited bamboo for his pioneering aircraft. Bamboo was revisited by Richard Miller in the Bamboo Butterfly hang glider. Highly expert use of bamboo may yet find niche uses in contemporary hang gliding. The variety of bamboo is great; crafty care for vital part making and maintenance can be part of a fine hang-glider-making hobby. Flying within the safety zone of a finished hang glider remains important. One need not enter the quick, dirty, untested, poorly-engineered world; rather, methodical test-saturated constructing may bring  some people a genuine safe bamboo hang glider hobby [BambooHangGlider (BHG)].    Your bamboo ideas are welcome to Lift.      EnterYourBambooNotes+   
• Tony Prentice hybrid framed, but string triangle control frame: 1960: bamboo framed: see LIFT online magazine for drawings and notes. Replication project is being considered by at least one person (will report).
• American Bamboo Society
• Bamboo bicycle
• BambooCraft.net
• Calfee Design Bamboo Bike
• BAMBOOWEB
• 1000 things made of bamboo
• World Bamboo Organization
• Forums
• 1961       http://tinyurl.com/FoldableFlexWingLouEverett8888
• http://www.bamboosurfboardshawaii.com/composites.html
• Drawing1   
  http://www.bamboorodmaking.com/html/hw_-_ferrules_-_cane_ferrules.html
• http://tinyurl.com/HowToBambooBike8888Lift
• Join group free first, then see files:
  • http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/ul-x/files/Demoiselle%20de%20Santos%20Dumont/

  • 	Bamboo in building structures.pdf	4211 Kb	charliedcrawley
    	Demoiselle replica.pdf	327 Kb	charliedcrawley
    	estudio del uso de Bambú en la construcción de un UL.pdf	414 Kb	charliedcrawley
    	FUNDAMENTALS OF THE DESIGN OF BAMBOO STRUCTURESPart1.pdf	3673 Kb	charliedcrawley
    	FUNDAMENTALS OF THE DESIGN OF BAMBOO STRUCTURESpart2.pdf	2864 Kb	charliedcrawley

     

• Funnies ought not discourage: Funny Four-Hour Project
   
• Not yet:
  Bamboo Hang Glider Society  ??? 
  Bamboo-only fly-ins ???    
  World Bamboo Hang Glider Society ???
  USBHGA ???    CBHGA ???   JBHGA ??? VBHGA ???  Each nation's .... ???
• Inspection? Forming composites with bamboo?  Partial hang glider systems? Care? Storage? Sealing? Wraps? Compositing wraps? Laminations?
   
• Bamboo Butterfly by and shown flying: Richard Miller, photographed by George Uveges of Santa Monica, CA (now in his second-half of his eighties and still active)  at Dockweiler in early 1960s. The image from a slide became part of the Bat Glider plans published by Jim Foreman with permission by Richard and George.  A similar craft Batso following this lead was built by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. and team and flown in Los Angeles, California, and in Livermore, California at self-soar meets.  The bamboo choice and use was rough-and-fast.  What might be done with high-level bamboo engineering?
   
• http://www.bamboo-t-shirt.com/advantages.html  Claims a special quality of bamboo. "bamboo kun".  Antibacterial.
• LIFE Magazine bamboo gliders     
             Large set of mixed types:  Birdmen-Glider Pilots
  • 1971 hang glider
  • Another image of the 1971
  • More 1971
  • Yes more 1971
• "bamboo that has been smoked to kill insects inside
  the wood"
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• Experimental Soaring Association
  American Bamboo Society
  Southern California Chapter of the American Bamboo Society
  Bamboo and Tikis (San Diego)
  Cali Bamboo
  Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. (wood products)(Corona, CA.)
  Specialized Balsa Wood
  Chuck Bassett Fine Balsa Wood Surfboards
• Consider the one-element hang glider; all parts are made of the same one element. Graphene comes to mind: carbon. And have the carbon come from bamboo.
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• Species
• Sources
• Soil
• Limits?
• Possibles?
• Cut time
• Treatments
• Storage
• Fills
• Wraps
• Lashings
• Inspection
• Testing
• Surfacing
• Drying tactics
• Measuring moisture content of bamboo during a drying process
• What does de-watering do to the qualities of bamboo wanted for hang glider building?
• What kind of radiations might one use to obtain certain results?  Consider the radiation used in the irradiation of foodstuffs. Source of the radiation?  Cost?  Controls?
• Storing bamboo during each use stage
• Humidity affects
• Light affects
• Explore the advanced water-repellent surfaces that have been recently found.
• Lashing tactics
• Modification of bamboo surface by irradiation of ion beams
• Wrapping
• Filling
• Epoxy/fiberglass
• Wrapping?
• Sizes
• Cutting
• Could a sail be made from bamboo fibers?
• Fungus killing 
• Heat treatment
• Age of a parts
• Vascular bundles
• Parenchyma lignin
• Materials engineering
• Tapes
• Fibers
• Bamboo textiles
• Bamboo sails?
• BHG clubs?
• BHG meets?
• BHG society?
• BHG safety
• ? send ideas...