Lift notes from some of us to all of us:
- Lift note #1:
Thanks for your efforts- good website- purchased Big Blue Sky today NOV 11 08- will send additional information as I receive it.. Looking for set of Hang Loose plans. I need to contact Mark Lambie; does anyone have a contact line to him? Historian@HGAusa.com Neil Larson.
- Lift note #2:
I fly and teach people to fly hang gliders, and recently took up ultralight triking. I relish the idea that now I can fly everyday that the weather cooperates. The skies over Texas and Oklahoma are phenomenal. Wide Open Sky Hang Gliding
- Lift note #3:
In-Phase Wave Lift at Ellenville NY . Special conditions at this site requires a 30-35 deg north crosswind at a site that takes a straight northwest. I have soared these conditions in everything from sailplanes, rigid-wing HG (Fledge's & Millenium) and flexwings (20-20 Standard HG - Falcon 225). Altitude Gains up to 11000ft In sailplanes and 3000-7000ft in HG. The Catskill Mts are upwind of Ellenville when there is a crosswind from the north at this site. The ride is from mild to wild depending on velocity and lapse rate. Some of the best flights have occurred in fairly benign conditions that were easily flown in with the flex wing HG's. Low testosterone flying conditions can be just as rewarding as Rock-and-Roll, if you are able to recognize the conditions--as you encounter them in flight--and sky out while all your buddies shrink to little dots way below you . Yeee Haaa, Suds [ED: The 2008 December issue of Lift will have a feature on Harry Suds.]
- Lift note #4:
Be soaring in your hang glider during earthquakes!
Notice all the terrific grounded wind indicators that will be occurring! Illustration.
- Lift note #5: 'Fomalhaut
b' may have some hang gliding clubs on it, you think?
- Lift note #6: pro tem executive
advisor to HGAusa is ShaneSoaring from Delaware; Shane is advising
pro tem worker FlyNowYes. Shane has given lift from 1952-2008 ... that
helped form HGAusa ...from the Otto jumping to the Nitsch exploring
to the monthly Lift solutions .. ShaneSoaring
has membership HGAusa#008 as of November 15, 2008.
- Lift note #7: Suggestion: "otto-giro HG" for hang gliders
using auto-rotating main wing. Choice between "gyro" and "giro" for the "giro"
stemming from" Gee I rotate!" or g i ro .
And the play of self-soar with Otto Lilienthal with "auto" and "otto."
Otto-giro hang gliders have a
niche
following. JpF
- Lift note #8: "Unlimited
soaring aviation" or
"unlimited soaring activity" or "united soaring aeronauts": usa Hang
Glider Activity HGA. HGAusa More
on this line is invited.
... JpF Unbounded sailing aeronauts. Undaunted soaring aeronauts.
Unusual sailing aeronauts. United sailing airpeople.
- Lift note #9:
Horten Brothers
Neil Larson
- Lift note #10: I am
building an electric
self-launching SWIFT; it's 90% finished to date.........Nov. 18, 2008
- Lift note #11:
Unexpected hanging-on-gliding. Kite yanks kid into the air I bet his mom
will never tell him to "go fly a kite" ever again.
- Lift note #12:
We who are using suspension risers [illustration] between our body and our wing are forming a true kite system. The suspension risers are the "kite line" set that tugs the kite wing--our hang glider's wing--against the apparent wind. Our body mass falls and we pull our kite. Our kite systems dynamically glide through the ambient air. JpF Kite types [wiki]
- Lift note #13: Logo design
contest for HGAusa is being sculpted. Design elements need to be copyright
free. Please to send image file in jpeg format during the estimate stage.
Neil Larson is inviting an under side of a hang glider or a drawing from a hang
glider specification sheet or flight photograph.
Half-wing is something Neil is working on, as such element will be part of a collage concept. He is considering a Da Vinci "man" in center with Otto Lilienthal wing at the right side, while a modern wing design on the left. Artists are invited to propose logo designs. Proposal1 Proposal2 Proposal3 Proposal4
- Lift note #14: Taras Kiceniuk in
the news with A Little Lift ---Gliders so responsive they
can stay up on a breath of fresh air. By Paul Ciotti Air & Space Magazine,
May 01, 2005. Dynamic soaring.
- Lift note #15:
Starting Hang Gliding
Promo. Examples a huge genre of video promotions. Nice eagle lander
and flying.
- Lift note #16:
E-team. Elsinore, CA.
Preserving the lift at Lake Elsinore ...
- Lift note #17:
Santa Barbara in
1974. Video. and
Dockweiler Beach Hang
Gliding. Jump!
- Lift note #18:
Wallaby Ranch
- Wallaby Ranch
Malcolm Jones 1805 Deen Still Road
Davenport, FL 33897
1-800-WALLABY +1 (863) 424-0070 fly@wallaby.com - Powered Harness Propels Man Who Pushes on Hang Glider (powered harnesses are very infrequently flown at Wallaby Ranch. Ask them before you plan your arrival.)
- Still photo of powered harness at Wallaby Ranch:
http://www.skydogsports.com/hg-1/Wal-08-C/14--th-316.jpg (powered
harnesses are very infrequently flown at Wallaby Ranch. Ask them before you plan
your arrival. )
- Wallaby Ranch
Malcolm Jones 1805 Deen Still Road
Davenport, FL 33897
- Lift note #19:
Rigid-wing Models
- Lift note #20: Super
Floater
- Lift note #21: Article
set by Dave Broyles
- Lift note #22: Read
Red on getting started.
- Lift note #23: When
the full frame of a hang glider double purposes as a complex of ultracapacitors
for storing assistive charge, then charging tactics combining pilot power, solar
power, wind power, wave power, and perhaps temperature differential-source
power, then lifetime fliking across oceans and land by a soarable hang glider
will happen. The wing...both top and lower surface will be double-purposing for
flight and energy converting. From: JpF
- Lift note #24: Nov. 20,
2008, Barry Hill Palmer sent a letter to the editors again. He confirms that he
provided Francis M. Rogallo a set of film clips in 1962 probably; those film
clips in part made the final cut in the currently viewable Flexible Wing video
on YouTube. Barry had over 7 versions; one version is shown in the clip. He
from 1961-62 achieved a version where he was hung behind a strut-stayed triangle
control frame (recall the 1908 cable-stayed triangle control frame).
Palmer has been nominated for the Living Legend preamble to the Member Set #001
of HGAusa (see link at top of page). Here is today's Palmer's note to the
editors:
Note the reference to hang gliding and Rogallo: The first hang glider seen in the You Tube video is one of my flights.
(Ref: Flexible Wing < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXNSTkhYy_s > This film was sent to Rogallo by myself, I do not know when, probably 1962.
Barry Palmer, for SevtecLift note #25: Jim Foreman Bat-Glider plans. Just nominated for: Member Set #001 and living nominees. Jim is still writing. See further: Lift note #32:
Lift note #26: Will Yolen, champion kite flier and kite-book author was photographed in April 1962 for LIFE Magazine hang gliding from a crane and landing in a large pile of grass or hay. Photographer: Yale Joel. The set of serveral images demonstrate the tethered pilot hanging from his gliding kite; the kite has a very low L/D and is very highly sail-loaded! That month Rogallo had filed a large extensive flexwing control patent in the USA. http://tinyurl.com/WillYolen101HangGlidingKite This is a kind of base jumping hang gliding. Such jumping hang gliding of kites was probably done by islanders and Chinese kite flyers thousands of years ago. Fun.
Lift note #27: http://tinyurl.com/1905inControlFrame
In 1905 hang glider pilot standing in control frame flying his hang glider. Who will be building and flying a replica of this? Who is the pilot? Hanging and feet standing in control frame. Who will modernize, power-assist, and show this gem in contemporary moments? Also, a follow-up study image http://www.josephfaust.com//hgh/images/1905/1905study.jpg The date needs yet to be verified by a second source to guard against typo potential on LIFE's part. Any second reference on the shown glider by LIFE is invited. Send to: Editor@UpperWindpower.comLift note #28: "What if electric flight comes of age" Patrick, and others,
Not "What if electric..?." Electric will occur strongly. There will be several directions on the electric theme. Some directions will involve mass cost; other directions will be accomplished via full double-purposing of spar, ribs, sail, clothes, harness for storing electric charge....as well as surfaces converting ambient and direct sunlight to charging such double-purposed parts.
The evolution of the FLPHG options will continue to challenge definitions. JpF
Lift note #29: Location: Chicago, IL, US Date taken: August 1958 Photographer: Al Fenn Stunt man Jack Wylie kite-flighting over the Chicago River
Lift note #30: French aviation enthusiast flying hang glider
Clermont-Ferrand, France Date taken: 1898.Lift note #31:
1. Lovejoy's experimental HG: ... who is that boy? 1971.
2. Same wing with different pilot.
Lift note #32:
Tale of the B :
Barry Hill Palmer,
Miller's Bamboo Butterfly,
Foreman's Bat-Glider plans, Jack Lambie
Hang Loose. Taras' Boondoggle,
and then
Taras' Batso:
leading to Otto's Birthday Party, man
powering Bryan Allen , Bob
Lovejoy, and the movie Playground in the Sky
by Carl Boenish and now
movie by
Bill Liscomb:
Big Blue
Sky.
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Jim
Foreman
Bat-Glider plans. Soaring pilot photographer George Uveges was close
working friends to Richard
Miller at Dockweiler Beach and took photographs that were used later on the
Bat-Glider plans. Richard Miller encouraged Jim Foreman to make,
print, and sell the Bat-Glider plans. Thousands of copies of the
Rogallo-wing with strutted triangle control-bar--all-bamboo framed hang glider--were sold. An enthusiastic
teen Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. pasted over the
title block of the Bat-Glider plans and sold some copies. At some point
a copy of such copyright intrusion was brought to Foreman's attention. A
cease order was extended formally; an agreement was met; and the
secondary distribution method stopped. Taras built his own
bamboo glider Batso with some friends and made some drawings of his own;
and then Taras sold some copies of his Batso plans, some modification in
the truss arrangement from the Foreman Bat-Glider. The
strong large-sheet lithographed plans of the Bat-Glider
forwarded by Jim Foreman into the world scene--spawned from the
Fleep-Palmer-Miller strand of influence--did play a
strong role in forming a
hang glider movement in the world and in Southern California; that
movement grew in many ways.
Jim Foreman had visited the SSA office when Richard Miller
was acting editor of Soaring magazine; Jim was actually searching
for plans of primary gliders. Richard indicated that many more plans for
a hang glider could be sold in comparison to plans for a primary glider;
Jim relates: "He opened a desk drawer and tossed a small stack of
Xeroxed plans for a Rogallo wing along with the proof sheet of Uveges
photos." Richard pulled out from his desk some photostat papers
and a proof sheet images of Uveges photos depicting the flights by
Miller and Miller's friends at Dockweiler Beach on a hang glider Miller
had made. Miller instructed Foreman that there would be no
opportunity to advertise or even to write about hang gliders in
Soaring magazine; further, the deal was that Miller's name was not
to be mentioned in the promotion; Miller had just gotten off the phone
with heavies in SSA who pressed that hang gliders were not to be in
Soaring magazine. So, Jim Foreman took the papers and proof sheet;
and then he formed the Bat-Glider plans, purchased lithographic
printing and began selling the plans through other avenues. The date of
Jim's arrival at the SSA office is not known yet, but tracing Miller's
editorship term would be part of this determination. [This note was sent
to
HangGliderHistory.com for its Timeline. Dates
are being researched.] Review time ordered USA Rogallo wing hang gliders:
Francis M. Rogallo demonstrations,
theory, testing leadership, inventions. Spawned from aeronautical
engineering career begun at Stanford University and stress on dream to
fly in face of pilot eyesight challenge. Fleep of Ryan Aeronautical Corporation. Spawned
from Rogallo. Barry Hill Palmer Spawned
from Fleep and his aeronautical career. Team under Charles Richards and several versions.
Spawned from NASA and Rogallo at Paul Bikle's directive. Jim Hobson : Dockweiler Beach
(model and full up). Spawned from NASA. Richard Miller : Bamboo Butterfly at
Dockweiler Beach. Spawned from Palmer and NASA. Jim Foreman : Bat-Glider commercial plans
spawned from Miller. Taras Kiceniuk, Tom Dickinson, and other
friends: Batso. Flown at Livermore, CA meet after demonstrations
in Southern California. Spawned from Foreman. |
Lift note #33: "Hawaii Walt" of Sylmar HGA has passed away on Thursday, November 20.
2008, at his home in Hawaii among family and friends. Condolences to his friends
and family."
Walt Briant "Hawaii Walt" is a runner-up in the SHGA longevity contest
but you can't tell that from his looks; another reason for all us "young uns" to
hopefully look forward. Walt is a disco-dancin' fool and splits his time between
the islands and his other Paradise, the sky above Sylmar."
Please share your remembrances of Walt in the
Pilot Forum.
Lift note #34:
Playground in the Sky by
Carl Boenish
http://www.skydivingvideos.de/index-gb.html Sold out there.
See next lift note that has a clip from the film.
Listed also at
http://www.turfhouse.com/acatalog/Accessories.html
Attention - may note these are VHS & possibly PAL (euro) format - Before
purchase of PAL format VHS- be aware they
do NOT play on American
VHS equipment; also you may have to find a professional transfer studio to
duplicate these to playable format ...This is legal, as you are allowed to copy
your own personal TAPES- NOT for mass re-production, NOT for mass re-sale!
Lift note #35: http://privitt.com/hang_gliding.htm First Lambie Hang Loose and more. Privitt family offers up a fun plate.
Lift note #36:
Professor
Cho Jaephil
and his team at South Korea’s Hanyung
University may profoundly impact hang gliding via extending battery life by
advances in the morphology of the cathode into 3-D porous silicon allowing vast
increase in charge storing. Watch advances
also at Stanford University (alma mater of Francis M. Rogallo)
for advances with silicon nano-wires to boost battery life.
Flatland assisted launch of hang gliders via
stored changes? Charge by sun, wind, pilot muscle, wave?
Further key steps for advancing hang gliding will be
the full double-purposing of the spar and rib materials into
charge-storage devices, and the sail into a charge-making device.
Different from lithium batteries is the whole realm of life-time ultracapacitors
where full-double purposing of hang glider parts is are a target.
Speculating by JpF
More1.
Lift note #37: Tandem with Fred Ballard .. and Tandem video for person's first flight. And Learn in first tandem. Another vid first tandem. [top]
Lift note #38: Fun factor per niche activity? Dare to have fun. Staying honest to interests? For example: Will there be a group specializing in triplane HGs? [top]
Lift note #39: December 19, 1971, was the date for the PhotoFly. Here is a study detail from the day: Miller and his Thistledown
Lift note #40: Some analysts are concluding that FLPHG is greener than FFHG? The matter is amenable to clarity. Indeed, the coming future E-FLPHG has a potential of deep green. JpF And REC pointed to some thrusting ICE for assistive flatland launching.
Lift note #41: Coastal lift at Stanwell [top]
Lift note #42: 1.
HPAC 2009 Calendar is now available.
2. Another 2009 calendar
SvS Design
3. ?
Lift note #43: Early HG Artist/sail painter/etc. ...Mendij... Request more information & more background info on Mendij...He hand painted several "FINE ART" dacron sails for flexible type HG, thus transforming said craft into works of ART. Historian@HGAusa.com Neil. "Mendij hand painted Delta Wing Mariah, Mendij hand painted Eipper Cumulus 5" ..at 2000 Dockweiler reunion.
Lift note #44: This was Art Bean's favorite number. He built an Otto Lilienthal replica and tried it off the top of his Pasadena, CA shed. He built a Montgomery hang glider replica. His hand-built tailed biplane hang glider Bean's Bird had 16' spars that he cut from larger boards with a hand saw very carefully with dreams in his heart. He flew Bean's Bird at "Delta Hill" where Bill Bennett once flew ...just as Highway 14 drops into the Palmdale, CA high desert area. Art rode his motorcycle to visit many early builders to encourage them on their projects. In a car accident he ended up having to wear a very long bolt for the remainder of his life to hold internally his femur together. His cartoons decorated Low & Slow and letters numerous to 1970s and beyond hang glider pilots. In 2000 reunion meet at Dockweiler Beach, Joe Greblo awarded Art Bean a special trophy. Then in following months Art Bean gave several trophies to his various heroes in the hang gliding community; the trophies featured a Wright shed and launch ramp.
Lift note #46: Mounted camera takes image of its own shadow during a turn with a trike. Study clip taken from Uruguay video. How many ways ....photography in hang gliders?
Lift note #47: Wills Wings owner's manuals. [top]
Lift note #48: Hang Glider Bible
Lift note #49: Just started new category: Challenging Flights for study and commentary.
Lift note #50: Karl Stice ...his 1983 letter to his girlfriend ... [top]
Lift note #51 USHGA's first historian remembers his start ...
Lift note #52: Crazy gliders Spirit of Coupe Icare 2005
Lift note #53: Recall that FAI will adjust itself once a niche sporting activity reaches their radar. That is, feel free to follow your truth, even if no one else is yet in your room. Your joy will be attractive. Grow the winging ways you wish. What are you dreaming? Recall that hobby, experimenting, play ... need not react to FAI sporting. Staying in play, hobby, and experimenting are traditionally strong avenues of creativity and recreation. Your flight log and birdman journal may be sacred scriptures. JpF [top]
Lift note #54: "I deeply enjoy walking up the hill with my wing and flying back down. I can do this over and over and over again. I sleep well. I get very fit. I load the potential energy into my flight system which includes my wing's and my body's mass; then I use that potential energy to power my hang gliding flight. Love it! Oh! the taking off is a treasured time. And my landing process is ever a challenging delight. The pauses and cycles admit meditation, creative noting, and conversations with grass, rocks, friends, ancestors, saints, insects, birds, gusts, clouds, natural laws, and the dancing changes in and out of all." From an intrepid aeronaut's hang gliding flight journal.
Lift note #55 Larson finds original site of the renaissance Otto Meet of May 23, 1971
Lift note #56 Exulans ...an exploration.
Lift note #57 Red has something to lift many of us
Lift note #58 Up fixing the roof for the rains and realized that this urban lot could be with a broad mesh takeoff and landing platform--over the roof and yards full length of lot-- for a powered-assisted hang glider. And that city houses throughout the world might also have such a change. Some will be with a minimum structure. Others would have the platform be solar-energy converting ---and charging the house and hang glider. Hmmm? Ideas? Drawings? JpF [top]
Lift note #59 Captive column ultralight glider exploration of 1969. HGAusa#003 and James too... found this lifting reference. Captive Column Time Line. [Ed.: Distinguish the technology from captive arch.]
Lift note #60 Vestas Sailrocket
Lift note #61 Wake vortex separation requirements in the hang gliding?
Lift note #62 Shock-absorbing TCF developments?
Lift note #63 The Otto shock-absorber?
Lift note #65 Solar Power Game-Changer: “Near Perfect” Absorption of Sunlight, From All Angles Antireflection advance may change the solar game. Consider home HG takeoff rooftops charging assistive electric launch. Consider higher absorption in HG converting surfaces.
Lift note #66 Mechanical realizations by aero modelers over the ages gifts hang gliding. A comprehensive tracing of their gifts to hang gliding is an undone project.
Lift note #67 How many L/D points may be gained by use of immediate pilot-power on any certain hang glider? E.g., given a hang glider with an L/D of 10, what might be the best shallow-powered glide angle obtained by adopting an efficient pilot-powering system? We already have the infinite answer in successful man-powered aircraft as the pilot achieve level flight. Differently, begin with practical successful hang gliders; work from that base and add a system that uses the pilot's power for getting a shallower flight path. What can be done here in pilot-power assisted hang gliding? When would such powering be wanted? Stephan Nitsch began some work on some flapping alterations of a hang glider. Airscrew propellers of one or two or more blades is an avenue to consider. Man-powered ornithopter-sailplane Remigijus Dainys
Lift note #68 Mid-air data reading for hang glider pilots? No instrument-drag hits? What is possible here?
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