Prehistory       500BC      0       875  1700  1710  1714   1720  1730  1740  1750  1760  1770  1780 1790   1799 
 

EnterData  +    DonateSupportThisSite + [Gratitude--affirm PG and HG roots ]

Hang Glider History Timeline       EnterData  +
Send your favorite timed item to
timeline@hanggliderhistory.com

Notes:  Link prefix with "g" is a generalized Google search.  Prefix with a "w" is a leading Wikipedia file on topic.

Consider copy-paste one of these in the Keywords field:

• hang glider

• hang gliding

• paragliding

• ultralights

• microlights

• kites

• kiting

• What early Chinese kite man glided with his kite off a pleasant knoll?  Gliding off the Tower of Babel? Copy the birds?  Escape from prisons?  Put on a show for the King and Queen?  Fly like the leaves seen during storms?

To have landed without fatal injury and to have had some gliding during the descent while intent was to glide, then his flight seems to be within hang gliding history. Monuments are built in his name. Airport is named after him. The lore grows. He pioneered at the front of the hang gliding arts.
For the study:
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/flyers.html
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/leonardo.html

FROM: WIKI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Ibn_Firnas

"Ibn Firnas was the first man in history to make a scientific attempt at flying."
—Philip Hitti, History of the Arabs.

Died: Various sources: 873   or  888 or ???

Abbas Ibn Firnas

Images

EnterData+
 [_top_]

EnterData+
 [_top_]

"Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi the most famous Turkish flyer, inspired by the studies by Leonardo Da Vinci and with some corrections and balancing adjustments, derived from studying the eagle in flight, finally, after nine experimental attempts, gave shape to his wing apparatus. His flight took place in 1638 from the 183 foot tall Galata Tower near the Bosphorus in Istanbul, during the reign of the Turkish Sultan Murad IV. The flight was successful. Hezarfen Celebi landed on the other side of the Bosphorus. With this success Hazarfen proved to be 200 years ahead of his time since it was two centuries later that comparable developments took place elsewhere. The event is recorded by writer and historian Evliya Celebi (traveler), an eye witness to the feat, in his book Seyahatname (a book of travel). The word Hezarfen means expert in 1000 sciences, in-fact, a reward of 1000 gold pieces was given to Hazarfen for his achievement." From Dr Metin Gungormus.  Some people are analyzing the flight. One needs know the width of the river at the time of the flight.

EnterData+
 [_top_]

EnterData+
 [_top_]

EnterData+
 [_top_]

• "Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air" by Emanuel Swedenborg   Was this the first of such kind of article?

• Born is one of the "fathers" of aviation: Sir George Cayley. He would add immensely to the roots of hang gliding.   GC1 

Charles Paul Landon painting  :  Online presence: + Levitation+  +wPH+   +imgIcarus+   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   +|+   ++   ++   ++

Cayley plan, suspended pilot. http://www.microlights.ws/aviation-history.htm

EnterData+
 [_top_]