- Timelines from pre-history through May 23, 1971.
- Pre-1500s, 1500s, 1600s, 1700s; Modern: 1800s,
,1900-1910, 1910-1929, 1930-1939, Volmer Jensen,1940-1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1962, 1963-1968,
1969-May22,1971. - Popular Science, May 1896, page 142.
- Popular Science - Nov 1896 - Page 144, crash announcement. Rhinow, near Berlin, August 12.
- Otto Lilienthal
- http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Aviations_Attic/UFOs/UFOs.htm
- In 1908 a gliding club used the full mechanics of a cable-stayed triangle control frame (TCF) with tether-hung pilot behind the control bar. Territory of Breslau. The mechanism is still used much today.
- http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Aviations_Attic/UFOs/UFOs_images/1910_Burke_Seagull_1.jpg
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http://www.natureculture.org/wiki/index.php?title=Domina_Jalbert
- 1940 and 1941:
Volmer Jensen: hang glider with full three-axis aerodynamic control
demonstrated. VJ-11.
- Barry
Palmer's seven to eight hang gliders are not all featured on the film, but
this is a great classic. He flew just before 1961 ended. Richard Miller
wrote to him. Palmer's set of hang gliders include many various sub-assemblies.
- Tony Prentice, age 13, in 1960, hybrid hang glider built of bamboo and
with hybrid tethered hang system.
-
The
Rogallo leadership with parawings, paragliders (then understood as boned
flexible wing gliders), Paresev hung-mass gliders, gliding parachutes
1945-onward had impact. Part of the press of the "Rogallo Revolution" had
clips of water-ski kiting use of the NASA seeded constructions of ski
kite-glider in the 60s; one project started in 1962 by Mike Burns (SkiPlane or
Ski Plane- self announced as :kite-glider) in Australia deposited public show
in April of 1963; he would later help another fellow Australian sharpen the
airworthiness of a kite that morphed to a boned flexible-wing kite-glider at
the hands of a gyro kitist John Dickenson (in his gyro- control (Bensen-based), he understood the degenerate-TCF stick and weight-shift control (such
mechanics were solved and used by at least 1908 for foot-launch hang gliding,
even in the cable-stayed TCF with pilot hung behind; such 1908 control was
used in pre 1950s in several hang gliders and again used in the 1960s and
forward hang gliders)). See example of
degenerate-TCF in
Bensen gyro.
- David Barish and his foot-launching wide sled kite with freely-falling
pilot mass as kite-system mooring had its impact in preparing some for
celebrating the Otto Lilienthal Meet of 1971.
- 1961. Celebrity Jim Hobson (of Lawrence Welk Show fame) began
experimenting with the Rogallo wing in model form, leading to the construction
of a full size glider which he flew it at Dockweiler Beach on January 2, 1962.
The glider frame was fabricated from aluminum and aircraft bolts supported by
aircraft cable attached to hardware store eye bolts and turnbuckles.[93] A
second larger hang glider was taken to Dockweiler Beach; it featured a 4 mil
polyester film reinforced with fiberglass tape. Movies of August, 1962 flights
were made.
- Dockweiler in mid-60s saw Palmer-influenced Richard Miller (certainly as Soaring editor had also his SSA community) bamboo stayed his control frame choosing the parallel bar format over the 1908 tethering behind TCF; the flight was only from about 18 ft. altitude at the beach.
- Tease in March of 1968 in Popular Science with "Birdman Kite"
- Jack Lambie and his Hang Loose biplane tailed hang glider project with
students. Popular press covered his exploits.
- Low, Slow, and Out of Control newsletter among some Soaring Society of America members, editor Richard Miller (R.I.P.), former editor of Soaring magazine, author of Without Visible Means of Support.
-
Prentice (1968 to some post Otto Meet) Key historical note: In 1960 Tony Prentice at age 13 designed and built a hybrid hang glider involving a tether form of the mechanics of the rigid form of the 1908-or-before triangle control frame (TCF).
Early Hang Gliding (The Flying Prentices) Part 1
Early Hang Gliding (The Flying Prentices) Part 2
Early Hang Gliding (The Flying Prentices) Part 3
Early Hang Gliding (The Flying Prentices) Part 4 -
Some aqua-kiting roots: Hang Gliding Beginnings 1968-1975
- Self-Soar Association with Otto memberships.
- Low & Slow, international hang glider serial
- International growth of local hang gliding clubs
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- Timelines
- Popular Mechanics
- Popular Science
- Hang Glider Weekly
- Hang glider associations and clubs around the world in many nations
- National Geographic magazine coverage of the Otto Meet 1971 written by author in Santa Monica who was living a block or so from the SSA headquarters: ________________. Issue: _______ Pages __________.
- Los Angeles Times, front page with photo of the Carmichael Aluminum hang glider,
- HangGliderHistory c
- Hang Gliding by Dan Poynter
- The Hang Glider's Bible by Michael A. Markowski
- Big Blue Sky ...the movie available.
- SeedWings c
- WindSports c
- Torrey Hawks
c
- Orgs
- OEM Manufacturers of hang gliders and paragliders
- Events, meets, competitions, exhibitions,
- 1975 Hang Loose, home movie: Hang Loose Hang Glider Home Movie
- Hang Glider Magazine c
- OZ Report c
- May 1974, Popular Science
- Flytec
- UltralightMarket
- Soaring Society of America
- Skyline
- Ultralajt
- Santa Cruz Paragliding
- Icaro
- Skywalk
- Adventure-Sports
- Team 5
- Fly-Mike
- Gin
- USPA
- APAU - Portuguese Association of Microlight Aviation
- Each nation on earth is being lifted some from a radiance from the Otto Meet.
- Every hang glider club on earth has some lift from the Otto Meet.
- Every paraglider club has some lift from the Otto Meet.
- Dealers are lifted in part because of the lift from the Otto Meet.
- Instructors know some Otto Meet lift along their way.
- Every hang glider periodical is flying in part from OMLift.
- Every microlight club has some lift from the Otto Meet.
- Articles wherein OML may be detected.
- All authors covering our sport have been given some "Otto Meet Lift".
- Supplier to hang glider pilots have been lifted some from the Otto Meet.
- Clean energy industry has been receiving lift from the Otto Meet.
- PPG worlds
- Torrey Pines Soaring Council
- Joby Aviation
- Hang Gliding
- HangGliding.org