TCF study #4
 

• PILCHER: http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200012.html?search=glider&tracked=1     Bolsters for arm-pits. Hand grips.  See how the TCF is with empty basebar, but function made good by bracing laterally against queenposts which in turn are cable stayed from above.  Make mode.  Build and fly.   Pilot was hanging  from own tendons.      side-wings    Pilcher used here pendulum weight-shift control; CG was beneath the CP.    Pilot running would not hit the empty basebar of the TCF.   Pitch: ....

* Study all text in detail:     "of deck"    "side-wings"  

Build replica of both the Lilienthal wing and of the Pilcher wing ....mods ... with modern materials and fly at Dockweiler.

Mod: go high hat (HH)  with the OL and PP   for a FOL and FPP   : )     FaustHHOL... and FaustHHPP.    And mod with the Breslau TCF of 1908.  And a mod of the Santos-Dumont hung strap seat.

Notice the tensioner wire.

•   The wheel from the downtube could be stayed by one nose wire and then a spring or rubber cord from the queenpost; the forward position would be kept by the nose wire. Model this. Test it as landing shock absorber.
• Arm-pit bolters and forward handgrip post:    Pilcher was higher than Otto Lilienthal.    Pilcher as a high hat to Otto Lilienthal on CG positioning relative to CP.

• Wright-Clarke gliders
• Notice how in the Wright and Wright-Clarke gliders, the pilot is at a point where he or she is on the base of TCF-DTparallel.  bit tjere os a secondary lower basebar holding wheels.
• Mansion "Mars" at Germany at Bahnhof Bork:   "jumping-off platform"   at flying field:  http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1909/1909%20-%200562.html?tracked=1
• hangglider aerial takeoff  HAT    ...jpf  High HAT  ... high hangglider aerial takeoff.       Raise platform by large kites (with stop lines for safety of leeward environment).
• Flight apparently started in January of 1909. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200020.html?tracked=1
• mishap
• hang glider mishaps
• British:   Kite-Flying Association.   Major Baden-Powell.   Col Fullerton.
• Keeled Eddy with air vents in left and right panel.  http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1909/1909%20-%200407.html?tracked=1
• Bracing the kite.     Elastic segment in lower bridle line ...
• Mr. W. Barton, over 70 years of age won the prize; he made his own kite.
• "sheds" at flying grounds ... to house aeroplanes
• Aero Club of the United Kingdom
• Aeronautical Society of Great Britain