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• An interesting item about Sir George Cayley in the RAeS news letter:  http://tinyurl.com/SirGeorgeCayleyNOTEBOOKSetc It shows that Cayley referred to gliding as skimming which is how I describe it below and of course the early HG publication "Ground Skimmer".   ~ARP

  The point where a glider takes to the air is the most thrilling part of any flight. The next is coming in to land. Testing new designs in ground skimming mode is great fun. As a young boy I imagined that the plants in the garden were trees and I was able to fly over them in my mind. I still dream of such things.  ~ ARP

   

• http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Cayley/Cayley.html
• http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/fap/OnAerialNavigation.html
• Sir George Cayley's On Aerial Navigation

  A turning point in the embryonic field of Fundamental Aeronautics occurred in 1809, when George Cayley put pen to paper and wrote three articles for Nicholson's Journal of Natural Philosophy. Cayley is the man who first brought the terms and principles of lift, drag, and thrust to aeronautics, and by the time of the publication of these articles, he had been performing fundamental research for more than 15 years.

  These articles detailed the results of this research. They are still relevant today, and are presented here as they first appeared.

  On Aerial Navigation, Part 1, November 1809

  On Aerial Navigation, Part 2, February 1810

  On Aerial Navigation, Part 3, March 1810

  The Degen prompt!  Three cheers for the Degen influence!
  Thanks to Degen for his experimentations!
   

• http://www.456fis.org/THE_HISTORY_OF_FLIGHT_-_SIR_GEORGE_CAYLEY.htm

  
   

• Early Cayley and TCF, tensional: see discourse on stability: http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Cayley/CayleyP2.html
   
• http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Cayley-FlyingMachine.html
• [ ]   http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Cayley/CayleyP3.html  Master Cayley's model; I am still confused about some parts.  Colorize.  Build. Research.
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• TCF shown in 1843 in Mechanics' Magazine.  Then show the 1910 control method with TCF in Flight magazine.  Show drawings and full text.
   
• [ ] Republish his very keen letter of March 25, 1843, for Mechanics' Magazine in a kind of examination of the Henson attention and specification.   See and republish also the editor's comments about Cayley fully anticipating all that Henson brought forward.
   
• Cayley fully well described hang gliding flight and the potential of pilot muscle power to sustain or extend the glide.
   
• Get best citations for the 1804 glider
• [ ] Explore fully:  http://books.google.com/books?id=wrIVAQAAIAAJ&dq=aeronautics&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false
• [ ] What is reachable from: http://books.google.com/books?id=wrIVAQAAIAAJ&dq=aeronautics&pg=PA251#v=onepage&q&f=false  on these various works?   Study each.
• By 1808, Cayley had constructed a glider with a wing area of almost 300 square feet (28 square meters). [ ] citations needed on this. GET CITATIONS FOR FACTS: By 1808, Cayley had constructed a glider with a wing area of almost 300 square feet (28 square meters). By the middle of 1809, Cayley had investigated the improved lifting capacities of cambered wings, the movement of the center of pressure, longitudinal stability, and the concept of streamlining. He demonstrated the use of inclined, rigid wings to provide lift and roll stability, and the use of a rudder steering control. He even came to realize that an area of low pressure is formed above the wing. By 1809, he had advanced from model gliders to the building and successful flying of a glider with a total wing area of approximately 172 square feet (18.5 square meters).""  http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/cayley.html    WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION FOR THIS?
   
• Sir George Cayley is known as the Father of Aeronautics
• Proposal: "Father of TCF"   Father of dihedral with TCF. Father of weight-shift control.  Father of muscle-powered flight sustention.      Get the facts.
• [ ] Who invented tension-spoked wheels?
• Speculations: http://lestanarchyfall.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=166159
• http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/cayley.html
• [ ] Put TCF facts on Cayley in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_aviation_%E2%80%93_19th_century
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley
• Find Nicholson's Chemical Journal that Geo. Cayley, Bart. refers to. What year, edition, etc. get copies of the articles. Publish those articles in LIFT.
      Ency. of Britannica notes:   In 1797 Nicholson founded the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, which was the first independent scientific journal. The success of this periodical inspired the creation of several rival scientific journals in England that eventually drove Nicholson’s periodical out of business. Nicholson’s Introduction to Natural Philosophy (1781) was the most successful of...  
   
• http://books.google.com/books?id=whEAAAAAMAAJ&ots=XPm408qHdT&dq=Nicholson's%20Chemical%20Journal&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false
• GET CITATIONS in support of each comment made at http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/cayley.html   The 1804 glider should be fully explored, replicated,   etc.
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Cayley Medallion.  Lift and drag.   Image near ...

• Look closely at the front of the payload holder; see the triangle control frame that helped to control the position of the payload; the pilot's muscles are eased by the way he or she is sitting hung from the wing above; when power is off, then hang glider.
•  1799  Cayley
• http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Prehistory/Cayley/PH2.htm
•  1809.  Stiffened flex-wing glider.
• Question: Did George Cayley ever run with a wing?  Evidence sought. Vicarious wing running? Teaching wing running? His gliding bird studies, etc. ... did he vision himself running with wing for preamble to launch?  George Cayley's gliding bird from "On Aerial Navigation," 1809.  Did he mention wing running to teach the world?  Note: He realized and taught: "any other propelling power were generated in this direction,"  and we favor in WWRA that the running by human power is a big player in WR in a main sector of WR; the wing runner drives himself or herself along the ground and helps thus to create an apparent wind over the carried wing; if design and purpose are set to lighten the vertical load on the runner's feet, then such may be done.
  "taking this opportunity to observe, that perfect steadiness,
  safety, and steerage, I have long since accomplished upon a considerable scale of
  magnitude; and that I am engaged in making some farther experiments upon a
  machine I constructed last summer, large enough for aerial navigation, but which I
  have not had an opportunity to try the effect of, excepting as to its proper balance
  and security. It was very beautiful to see this noble white bird sail majestically from
  the top of a hill to any given point of the plane below it, according to the set of its rudder,
  merely by its own weight, descending in an angle of about 18 degrees with the horizon.
      I do therefore hope, that what I have said,
  and have still to offer, will induce others to give their attention to this subject; and
  that England may not be backward in rivalling the continent in a more worthy
  contest than that of arms."  ~Cayley (published note in 1809)   
• Cayley's sketch.   I see running and flapping, carrying wing in the process.  I see wing running.   Nominated: Sir George Cayley for WWRA membership.
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