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  • FlyingMachines.org  for their attention on many of the early  pioneers.
  • Photographs of the Invention of the Airplane
  • Otto Lilienthal Museum
  • "aerocurves"  ...rather than "aeroplanes"  ;  "aeronauts" rather than pilots.
     

Transporting, ascenders, levitators, teletransporters, ghosts,
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Judaism:

Christian:  St. Joseph of Cupertino, Jesus of Nazareth,

Islam: Nocturnal ascensions:  "Abu Yazid also related the following. When I reached Unity—and that was the first moment that I gazed upon Unity—for many years I ran in that valley on the feet of understanding; till I became a bird whose body was of Oneness, whose wings were of Everlastingness. I kept flying in the firmament of Unconditionedness. When I had vanished from the things created, I spoke." Ref.

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• February 1963   Tournament waterski
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Eilmer of Malmesbury (also known as Oliver due to a scribe's miscopying, or Elmer

NEED further information; all are welcome to research this and other instances of flying.

Main article snapshot from February 18, 2009.

What order of monks? Do they have records?

"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.

George Cayley's gliders made two very short manned flights (but Cayley did not pilot). Who did pilot the Cayley gliders? .

Andre-Guillaume Resnier

"General Resnier of Goue, the Frenchman who in 1806 at the age of 77 became the world's first hang glider pilot [Ed: THIS IS DISPUTED] by launching himself from the ramparts of Angouleme, some 250 ft (76 m) above the River Charente.

His first flight rewarded him with a ducking in the Charente and his second with a broken leg, but the point had been made. Others had simply managed to fall slower with their machines than without them, but Resnier was almost able to control the course of his second flight - and it was a flight, not just a fall."   Ref>  BMAA

"In 1806, its first test of flapping flight success was not crowned. Springing parapet of Beaulieu, it jumps into space by agitating the wings in wire covered with waxed taffeta. It does nothing but descend rock in rock.

The second attempt is worth to him a bath forced in the Charente. Left the bridge, high 5 meters, connecting the district Saint-Cybard to Angouleme, it falls into water at the end of 50 meters from vol.

Finally its third and last test are a success. He traverses 300 meters by springing top of the ramparts of the city and breaks only one leg on arrival.

He dies in Angouleme on February 2nd 1811. " Ref> Andre-Guillaume Resnier
 

"Français André-Guillaume Resnier.
Cet ingénieur a réalisé en 1801 un vol avec une aile de sa fabrication : en partant du haut de la tour Ladent, il a réussi à planer 300 m et à franchir la Charente."

High resolution photo 3.5 mb. >>PlaqueResnier

1809

Balloon launch of manned flapping and gliding machine with control frame?

Some links related:

• http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/ornithopter/DI37.htm  Notice the beginnings of the triangle control frame that came to full expression cable-stayed for hang gliders in the first decade of 1900s in a gliding club in territory of Breslau, a format for hang gliders that is still used today in many hang gliders.
   
• http://www.learnnc.org/lp/external/flying
   
• http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/
   
• http://collections.nasm.si.edu/media/full/A19680044000cp03.jpg
   
• http://collections.nasm.si.edu/media/full/A19680042000cp03.jpg
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Degen_(Erfinder)
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His governable parachute had the mechanical foundations for hang glider and stiffened or framed flexible-wing hang glider. Cayley profoundly discussed and modeled pendular control of hung-massed gliders.

• Cayley's On Aerial Navigation, Part One. 1809
• Cayley's On Aerial Navigation, Part Two.  1810
• Cayley's On Aerial Navigation, Part Three. 1810

J. A. D. Ackroyd, "Sir George Cayley: A Bicentennial Review," the 46th Cayley Lecture, Royal Aeronautical Society (London: RAS, 19 April 2000).

Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, Sir George Cayley, 1773-1857 (London: HMSO, 1968).

J. Laurence Pritchard, Sir George Cayley: The Inventor of the Aeroplane (London: Max Parrish, 1961).

 Aerial Steam Carriage.       What had he done with power-off gliding of his models?

Chanute sketch a Stringfellow triplane in Chanute's book Progress in Flying Machines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1857DuTemplePatent.jpg +

The du Temple Monoplane was a large aeroplane made of aluminium, built in Brest, France, by naval officer Félix du Temple in 1874.

Did anyone sans the engine and try the design as just a glider?

Alexander F. Mozhaiski of Russia.     Seems some influence from Henson???

Did the Russian group do some smaller-sized gliding experiments?

Though Cayley was somewhat satisfied with his CG aft of CL and positive AoA of rear tail, such missed the large advance that Penaud gave to us with longitudinal stability and balance with the CG forward of CL with AoA of rear tail negative. Some thus hold Penaud as one of the very tall figures in aircraft design: Cayley, Penaud, Wrights ...

Planophore

He was getting very much right  via bird study, modeling extensively large, and much testing. Thick root airfoil, washout, longitudinal balance on flying wing, shock-absorbing A-frame wheel-basebar.

Full book and full title: A Treatise upon the Art of Flying by Mechanical Means

In 1831, Walker proposed a tandem-wing craft with the propulsion system between the two wings. One is to explore John J. Montgomery's tandem wing glider. And it is to be questioned if Samuel Langley  was influenced by Walker.

Article1.      Note on his book.     Article2.   Article3.  

• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, 1890
• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, 1891
• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, 1892
• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, 1893
• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, 1894
• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, 1895
• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, 1896 and early 1897

• Deutsches Reichspatent Nr. 77916 (77) Flugapparat, 3.9.1893/10.11.1894
• Brit. Patent N° 2519, Flying machines, 1894
• United States Patent N° 544816, Flying machine, 1.2.1894/20.8.1895
• Deutsches Reichspatent Nr. 84417 (77), Flugapparat, 29.5.1895
• "The second German patent is an extension, the so-called "Vorflügel" (slat), a flap for automatic attitude-changing in cases of negative angle of attack."
• http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/02500/02546v.jpg
• http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/02500/02545v.jpg
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Want to expose hang gliding to the world?  The huge slated 1903 Exposition that occurred late ...and became the 1904 huge Exposition (12,000,000 visitors) in St. Louis, Missouri, featured the hang gliding of William Avery in a biplane hang glider.  Such exposure seeded hang gliding in the minds of people of young and old alike. Abstract. 

Undaunted soaring aeronaut (usa) ...Herring returned to the dunes with a triplane.

• Diary.   
• Web.   
• Glider.
• Samuel Franklin Cody (1867-1913)  
• Cody Researcher Jean Roberts
• Cody
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• Progress in Flying Machines         
• Article1.        
• Experiments In Flying.

• tail-less biplane JWD1  
• imagesJWD2   

The Ellehammer Semi-biplane was a pioneering aircraft flown in Denmark in 1906. See replica.  He had a monoplane followed by a semi-biplane.

"its pilot's seat, as in the previous model, "swung like a pendulum to maintain longitudinal stability."  Henry Villard in his Contact!   

Ellehammer note in Automotor 1906                  Image1

"Ferber's experiments in gliding began in 1899 at the Military School at Fountainebleau, with a canvas glider of some 80 square feet supporting surface, and weighing 65 lbs. Two years later he constructed a larger and more satisfactory machine, with which he made numerous excellent glides. Later, he constructed an apparatus which suspended a plane from a long arm which swung on a tower, in order that experiments might be carried out without risk to the experimenter"  A History of Aeronautics by E. Charles Vivian XII. The First Years of Conquest.

See his monoplane hang glider.

We seek a second reference to firm the historical note by LIFE.

Alberto Santos-Dumont      1904 and 1905  glider  ... kited over river Seine; had pontoons.   Then powered flight,14-bis.          Wiki.         The Demoiselle.=The pilot was seated below the fuselage-wing junction, just behind the wheels.

Alberto Santos-Dumont    AVIAÇÃO - O Demoiselle de Santos Dumont, o Pai da Aviação. and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN7p1UCU5Vo

Alberto Santos-Dumont in 1907 made and flew Demoiselle (Damselfly); then in 1910 the world received full plans via Popular Mechanics magazine.      
                      ===>Clip image study here.   Did this image affect the 1908 Breslau territory gliding club members as they achieved the cable-stayed triangle control bar with tension hung pilot behind it...for hang gliders?  The Demoiselle received world-around coverage from 1907 forward.

July 1910 Popular Mechanics:
 "How to build the famous "Demoiselle"
Santos-Dumont's Monoplane
by Arthur E. Joerin and A. Cross, A. M.
(Paris)
From time to time vague description of the manner of constructing aeroplanes have been given to the public. All over the United States there are thousands of persons who are intensely interested in the subject of aerial flight, but until now nothing of a tangible nature has been presented on which work could be started with a reasonable prospect of success. It is a great satisfaction therefore, to be able to present the working drawings of the wonderful monoplane invented by M. Santos-Dumont. As the authors point out, however, it would be useless for anyone not possessed of some mechanical skill, and plenty of common sense, to attempt to construct a copy of the famous flyer, even with such detailed workings and instructions. --THE EDITOR"

• Flash tour of one of the versions of the Demoiselle.
• Grab wheel with gloved hand to bring her to a stop.
• Tail control system
• A-frame triangle basebar used as holder of two wheels.
• Seat was hung from airframe...canvas.
• http://individual.utoronto.ca/firstflight/demoiselle-drawing.jpg
• http://individual.utoronto.ca/firstflight/
  • "Contrary to other contemporary inventors, Santos-Dumont did not believe in patents. He distributed freely the plans for the Demoiselle to anyone who wanted to build his own. In that sense, Santos-Dumont was an idealist and was in the forefront of what we nowadays call the ‘Open Source’ initiative."
• Special article.

  Unknown to George Webster, the Allison sled invention was actually used in the hang gliding world in Venice, CA, in a hang glide flight base launch by child Joseph Faust off a lifeguard tower for a short hang glide, pictured on cover of a Low & Slow magazine. Note: Scott Sleds are a subset of the Allison sleds patented by Allison.

• GR1  Co-inventor of the mechanical  Rogallo wing.   
• Gertrude Sugden Rogallo, 94, a native of Hampton, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2008.

Beloved Father of Hang Gliding Dies

Francis Rogallo, 1912-2009 

Francis M. Rogallo     ...birdman hanging on  now to Last Thermal  ...  See also  his 1970's letter.

• Super Floater (with Larry Hall)   
• Hummer November 1977
• Humbug
• Vector
• October 10, 1979
• Pix of Woody Jones on Super Floater.
•  EAA Hall of Fame. 2004 - Klaus Hill: Hill, who died in 1979, was a pioneer in ultralight flight as the designer of the Sailwing glider, the basis for the Twin Boomer and Delight Wing in the 1970s. His designs also included the Honeybee, Weedhopper, Hummer and Humbug soon followed.    Early Otto member of Self-Soar Association. Friend to Richard Miller.  Was correspondent in Low, Slow & Out of Control.  Subscribed to Low & Slow.

• http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/library/Means1895.html
• Full reprint of books: Aeronautical Publishers. Mike Markowski

James Hobson

First efforts.

HGAusa#044
Art Bean

Classic photograph by historian Neil Larson of Art Bean at an early 1972 meeting when the USHGA was being formed.

circa 1910-1915

Bain News Service, publisher. Malcolm Allison - with glider [between 1910 and 1915] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. See photo. Notice that a higher resolution photo is available; also a very high tiff archival copy is available. Notice the tow lines at the wing tips. Notice also the lower wing trailing edge extension about 2 to 3 feet from the tips.  Observe the firm curved airfoil format.  In the two photos seen so far, a seat of any sort is not seen by Lift editors.

The original New York Times article is here. New York Times: October 9, 1911, Monday, Page 4, 1241 words

A text type version of the article for study is here for Lift:

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ARMY BOY BUILDS GLIDER THAT FLIES
Airship You've Seen Over Governors Island Is the Toy of the Post's Children.
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GIRL MADE FLIGHT IN IT.
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It Was Made by Col. Allison's Son, Malcolm, Out of Varnished Cambric and Birch Wood---Now Being Repaired.
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The secret of the Governors Island airship, the short flights of which in the late afternoons for weeks past have made many persons in Battery park and on passing ferryboats wonder who the aviator was and the kind of a machine he used, is out. The machine is a fifty-pound biplane glider, and the inventor and maker is Malcolm Allison, the 17-year old son of Col. James N. Allison, U. S. A, the commissary officer of the Division of the East of the army.

The machine is housed in the aeroplane shed built for Wilbur Wright at the time of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, and young Mr. Allison is now busy making repairs due to an unexpected fall a week or so ago, when an army boy who was gliding stuck his feet too far forward, thus breaking the equilibrium and causing the machine to fall. The inventor is not only repairing the machine, but he is also adding some improvements, among them a stationary instead of a swinging seat and a new rear control.

The flight have been at heights of from ten to fifty feet, and in several of the mthe [sic, many flights the?] glider has traveled more than 500 yards before coming down. In all of the flights the passengers have been drawn from the youthful population of Governors Island. One of those who made a splendid flight of more than 100 yards was Miss Alice Judson, a niece of Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief of the General Staff.

When the wind is strong the glider behaves fine, Malcolm Allison said yesterday, but when there is only a gentle breeze a tow of some sort is generally necessary in order to get into the air. The Governors Island children do the towing.

The planes of the glider are twenty feet long and four feet wide, the surfaces being of varnished cambric. The wood is birch, and the planes are held in position with birch supports and wires, the same as are the planes in the big biplanes of the Wright and Farman types.

Every part of the machine is the work of Malcolm Allison, and every one of them was made on the back porch of Col. Allison's home, which has been fitted up as a workshop by the boy inventor. The tools and the lumber and cambric all cost about $12.

The starting point for the flights is generally the grass-covered incline on the south side of the enlisted men's barracks, opposite the Statue of Liberty. There the boy or girl who is to take a spin in the air gets into the swinging seat and jumps off, that is if the wind is strong enough to get the glider into the air without the aid of a tow. If the wind is too gentle, there are plenty of youngsters waiting around to act as the tow.

Young Mr. Allison said yesterday that he was perfecting a plan by which he can use a horse to tow. The only thing troubling him is to bet [sic, get?] a horse that won't be frightened when it is hitched to something that will go up as soon as he gets a moving. The inventor said he did not expect to use more than one rope, which would be about 400 feet long and which would be made fast to the center of the lower plane. He woudl [sic, would] find a way, he said, to release the rope in the event the horse became frightend [sic, frightened] and tried to run away.

Amusing stories are told of what the Governors Island glider has been mistaken for. Many have concluded that it was the real thing and that it was operated by an aviator tuning up for a cross-country flight. One day a reporter saw it from a ferry boat, and that afternoon his paper came out with the announcement that it was what was left of a machine that was used by Atwood on his record-breaking flight from St. Louis to New York. Another theory was that a Governors Island officer had invented a new machine that would revolutionize aerial warfare. Several aviators of note have seen the Allison glider, and all of them pronounce it a very clever piece of work.

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HangGliderHistory.com ANALYSIS of the early New York Times article is briefly done here in December 18, 2008:
1. A 17-year old youth built a 20' span biplane hang glider.
2. Malcolm Allison flew his glider considerable distance.
3. Malcolm Allison permitted many of his friends to fly his hang glider.
4. At least one girl significantly flew the hang glider. Miss Alice Judson, a niece of Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief of the General Staff.
5. The article did not report of any pilot injuries.
6. The first version of the hang glider had a swinging seat. And while with such a swinging seat, the flying boy was able to change the position of his legs.
7. Many of the flights were launched by the towing assistance of neighborhood youth.
8. Malcolm Allison used a damage incident as an occasion to improve upon his design. He explored a control surface and stable seat instead of the swinging seat that he first reportedly used.
9. Mistaken interpretation by published reporters occur.

• http://www.google.com/patents?id=7qRVAAAAEBAJ  CONTROL AND PROPULSION FLUID FOIL
• http://www.google.com/patents?id=kN5yAAAAEBAJ
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• FAI report of meet.  
• Some immediate response.
• Meet in 2007 where he flew Aeros Combat L
• He may be on the right of photo at Ludesch Open 2007 http://www.dhv.de/typo/typo3temp/0a555c7fe2.jpg
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1. Ben recalls ...
2. Jan25of2009JohnSharp777Lift

Tony Gittes
The Nov. 2-3, 2010. Canoa International Hang Gliding Tournament in Ecuador was dedicated to Tony, known as "El Hombre Pajaro" (birdman), the first man to hang glide there.   Anthony Foster Gittes, 58, d: July 21, 2010, of cancer. 

Chris,
Your Dad was super amongst us. And I knew you most young. Your Dad was ever gracious, friendly, sharp, and a Wright-like hang glider builder.

Your Dad let me fly his modified Icarus II in Venice Beach on small berm; photo got into the Santa Monica Star News.  And I helped you and your Mom and Dad put the glider together at the Torrance Beach Turkey Fly that I sponsored.
Your Dad spawned a lithographic printing business after seeing what I did from scratch to become for hang gliding a lithographer.

I was in your Dad and Mom's Pasadena printing office. They supplied T-shirts and bumper stickers featuring my Self-Soar Association logo of wind-lifted man in flight. He was top man and glider in the four-color centerfold Photo-Fly photograph that I arranged where the pioneers were assembled to show pilot and glider on a hill in Norco, California.

I have returned to publishing hang gliding. My first decade with Low & Slow and Hang Glider had several mentions of your Dad.
May I share your notes to the hang glider world without Mom's contact and without your contact, as you direct?

Original historian Neil Larson is active again with me in some publishing efforts.
One of several efforts:     See: Lift via http://HGAusa.com 

This is cc to Neil Larson who also probably saw you as a toddler. Neil has some photos of early meeting with your Dad at executive table.
Soon,
Lift,
Joe                       Dec. 1, 2010.

Thomas H. Purcell, Jr.    Flight Dynamics (pres: Thomas H Purcell Jr.), Raleigh NC    Built flexible-wing glider.  Perhaps 1961. Details are invited.   Skysurfer Magazine of May/June 1973, page 9, published by the owner of Aeronautical Publishers,  shows Purcell with a wing that holds the mechanical inventions embedded also in the Fleep and the wing of the team headed by engineer Charles Richards. Thomas H. Purcell Jr. died Oct. 13, 2007, at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, N.C

Some notes about Robert Downing

• http://www.arcataassoc.com/news-and-features/109-2012-downingreceivesnasaexceptionalservicemedal
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Hello, Joe:                                                    Aug 23, 2012
You compiled an interesting selection of people and events as part of your hang gliding history, but you do not seem to discuss data prior to 1900. 
There are many newspaper articles etc on Lamson and his gliders, even how he towed his gliders over the roads to the take off-site in the mid 1890s. 
You ask which papers were not accepted (or "trash" in Chanute's opinion) for the 1893 Int'l Conference, that is easy, just check the letter books of Zahm and Chanute. All (?) correspondence is copied there.
Zahm wrote many good articles prior to 1902, he even coined the word "Naval Soaring" that we would consider today as "ridge soaring"
James Means is another interesting and influential person who self-published many pamphlets in the early/mid 1890s. It is my understanding that the Means family still owns quite a few copies of the Epitome, Annuals, Manflight, etc. The Epitome from 1910 is the book on soaring. This should be mentioned here!
The information on Herring can be found in Chanute's letterpress books as well as in Herring's article in the American Engineer. His third Lilienthal-glider was rebuilt and made stronger to be flown in June 1896 in Chicago. The Chanute and Herring relationship is discussed in detail in my book, Chanute's biography: "Locomotive to Aeromotive". Herring was a controversial person.
But I miss several other people who contributed in the early days of developing manflight when no engine was available. These men should be considered precursors of the hang gliding development as well. Only to mention a few Americans: Albert Merrill, Spratt, Huffaker, Bion Arnold, A G Bell, and many more. They all discuss soaring, or how to extract power from nature, and each of them contributed in their own way.
Hope this helps,
Simine

• http://www.energykitesystems.net/USHawks/HUSH.html
• http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits/chanute/index.html
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