Tony is mentioned in the following post of May 16, 2013, in reply to a
problem in hang gliding history:
Sorry, GH, not even the first of "modern" hang gliders. Way off.Your
hug to JD is so tight that you seem not to be able to take in anything but
your untenable thesis. Boy smashes glass bottle and runs away; an org
looks at the broken glass and declares: there is broken glass and
publishes such; others look at the published statement about the broken
glass and derives statements: "broken glass is there." Seeding boy says,
"Don't blame me, I had nothing to do with that third-party statement." GH,
the record is there; you broke the glass and now have a habit of running
away from the matter. Consider taking responsibility; become a hero and
use your powers to 'fess up to the orgs, support the counterexamples, and
just let the raw good story of JD fly. With your pointed leadership and a
hoped-for enlightened JD, perhaps a strong wave of correction can be made.
FAI-CIVL may even lose its entire life, if it does not see through what
you have brought to test the FAI; FAI hiding its head on the matter will
be a sad story. But FAI could become better and stronger if it faces the
challenge your actions have initiated. Will you form a new initiative, a
new campaign, to bring on a better FAI and hang gliding history sector in
orgs in our community? Hope so.
Sorry, GH,
The root source of the untrue slide statement in the video was from the
results of your bully tactics in Australia.The
slide will be changed by the publisher soon. Cost: About five persons and
some 10 man hours. But the damage will cost others even more time.
Community costs of poor journalism is high.
And in your note above, you continue to state an untenable.
The tinkered ski kite glider of JD simply was not the first of modern hang
gliders; you continue such false statements in your tunnel vision. The
seed of the hang gliders of today does not rest in JD (he was part of a
flow that had already been seeded); and not one of your over ten untenable
claims for JD hold…each is a false claim. The cost to correct your seeded
false statements is tremendous; your campaign tired HGFA and your campaign
seeded the result of awards that hold untenable historical statements. You
seem to refuse to incorporate historical facts while trying to melt your
untenables into an avalanche of facts in hopes that such non-sequitors and
association will "win" the applause of the untenables. Well, you do win
the infamy of hoaxer regarding the untenable claims for your fav JD. He
was certainly not the first in the modern renaissance of hang gliding to
use well the Rogallo-NASA-Ryan-USArmy-Marine-inspired four boomer with
A-frame; others showed the full tech before JD started his tinkering. All
the tech and show was in public domain, shown internationally and even
foot-launched before JD started. Those earlier were seeds in the visions
and minds of thousands. JD did his project and became part of the later
good flow; there is no problem with that good flow. The problem is the set
of untenables that you bullied into HGFA and subsequent resultants of FAI,
USHPA, and a French low-scruity flow. You do not well utilize
professional-level invention logic.
You do not put into timelines the facts that counter your untenables.
JD has become partners with you on theawful
flat faceto
hang gliding that has resulted from your bullied set of untenables that
will wreak havoc on the creative face of hang gliding history for a very
long time until a groundswell from the ranks counters you and boycotts FAI
until real leadership occurs in FAI for historical accuracy; until then
your awful untenable seed set has won infamy for you and JD; enjoy the
minutes of infamy while you can, as the final legacy … hopefully will be a
robust showing of your record and the low scrutiny of org rubber stampers.
Yes, the video student error came from the untenable seed you placed into
our hang gliding community; such types of errors will be published many
times over. If you care about the hang gliding community as a whole,
please consider working with the HGFA and FAI-CIVL to correct matters. And
consider correcting all your statements on the Internet that have
counterexamples. Consider one-by-one retracting the ten or more untenables
of your first article on JD; and then go from there and correct other
false claims you made during your raw bully-push campaign. Keep facts that
show a good story; and there is yet a good story for JD, but you have
deeply muddied his story with your multitude of untenable interpretive
claims for him. The cost that others are going through to bring out
corrections is considerable; there is a good side to the effort, though,
as simply more hang gliding history gets exposed. Now is the time to get
even more history out solid: "tear down that Wall" and become a corrector,
GH.
~Joe Faust
NMERider, very neat selection on that urban-bee video story! Thanks for
posting its link. ~JoeF
==============================edit an hour later:
Well, priority on build, show, and tell:
Some, incomplete list of those using the public-domain arts:…
some were even foot launchers! Tony Prentice of age 13(not
NASA related; only kite and glider history inspired), John Worth, Cecil E. Craigo, Peter F. Girard, Barry Hill Palmer, Thomas Purcellin
his first Flightsail towing over land and water.
andJames
Hobson Paresevteam
and crew and associates in project: towing and gliding high with
astronauts; eight pilots total in that program,
and others …(incomplete list of the priors)
AND ONLY LATER:Mike
Burns.
And thenlater
stillDickenson
for towing over water in ski kites.
All in that short priority list except Prentice were
Rogallo-NASA-Ryan-inspired projects. Hobson had the A-frame like earlier
John Worth and others earlier like in 1908. Unfortunately GH forty-plus or
so years later would push a false "inventor" claim and at least ten other
false claims for the Dickenson project.But
notice that in first decade of 1900sGustave
Whitehead taught hung pilot in seat behind downtubes and basebar in
battened flex-wing hang glider! And in Breslau a very simple battened hang
glider, the very cable-stayed A-frame control system we use today.
GH, for the sake of a rich face for hang gliding and not a flat untenable
face, please tear down thatphony
"inventor"wall
and wash off the untenable claims! The unexamined provisional application
and the over-generous historical fumble of FMR that you use to unfairly
promote untenables do not bring validity to the untenable title you have
foisted on JD for our hang gliding community. Sooner than later get on a
helpful path for change; and help clean up the mess you made in FAI, HGFA,
and USHPA, and our hang gliding history community.You
can fly, yes you can…on this rework…
without the hoax; help clean up the legacy before JD takes the Next
Thermal; now is a good time just before the coming memorial for Hobson on
Otto Lilienthal's birthday; good time to make an interior change and
decision to get things sans the phony hoax. Even if you make the change,
GH, it will take considerable effort and years to clear the historical
airs. Infamy is probably less satisfying than merited honor; there is yet
opportunity to merit hang glider history honor for yourself in a
correcting of the JD "legacy" that has been tilted by you and presumably
accepted by JD.
Many morphs of control method. Many later morphs of machines.
FOR MUCH MORE, go to US Hawks forum in history section at topic "Flight
Dynamics, Inc." and follow Thomas H. Purcell, Jr. .
FlightSail, first version flew on Oct. 27, 1961. He was PIC.