Human-powered aircraft
human-powered aviation, man-powered flight, woman-powered aircraft,
woman-powered aviation,
sport HPA. HPA hybrids in FLPHG, in kiting, in powered
aircraft (fixed-winged or rotary-winged) |
Proposed Classes of HPA (Rough
draft stage ...)
(discussion is open for anyone in the world)
- Free-flight sustaining without any assist from thermals or gusts under
one-wing-span altitude.
- No use of LTA gases in the system
- Use of LTA gases in the craft
- Free-flight sustaining without any assist from thermals or gusts over
one-wing span altitude.
- Fixed-wing
- No use of LTA gases
- Use of LTA gases in the craft
- Rotary wing
- No use of LTA gases in the system
- Use of LTA gases in the craft
- Free-flight sustaining that may find some assist from thermals or gusts
or stored pilot-energy. Periods of soaring and gliding with pilot relaxing
brings this class into gliding assisted by pilot muscle power. During
the soaring, a pilot might continue working to make electricity to charge an
onboard battery to obtain sustained flight under use of the stored
electricity made during the flight. Some of this might not have been
achieved yet. A sector of this class might include hang gliders that
have means for the pilot to help sustain flight by use of pilot muscle
immediately or via stored-pilot-energy methods; such has been tried; several
patents involve this method; extreme expression of these directions have yet
to be fulfilled.
- Fixed-wing
- No use of LTA gases
- Use of LTA gases in the craft
- Use of stored pilot energy prior to flight
- Use of stored pilot energy generated during the flight
- Use of energy obtained by gust-reacting driven by pilot muscle
actions.
- Rotary wing
- No use of LTA gases in the system
- Use of LTA gases in the craft
- Use of stored pilot energy prior to flight
- Use of stored pilot energy generated during the flight
- Use of energy obtained by gust-reacting driven by pilot muscle
actions.
- Conceptual: Free-flight glide obtained by use of wing that
gained its potential energy from the operating pilot, followed by momentary
loading of the wing with pilot weight for a glide. This concept might be
achieved through calm kiting where the wing is worked to altitude by pilot
power followed by the loading of the wing by rapid gather of the tether.
- Swinging a wing at the end of a tether by a human pilot is a class
of HPA, as the wing is an aircraft powered by the human pilot.
- A hybrid class: The pilot works to make electricity to charge a
battery for an e-wing; then the pilot flies the e-wing. This is using the
stored energy of the pilot.
- Calm kiting in its pure
form is a class of HPA. In its most ancient form, this
sector of HPA has been expressed by "running to get a kite to fly" in
wind that is insufficient to power the flight of the wing by way of a static
or fixed mooring. The kite pilot has many realms in
which to operate.
- Note to FLPHG group: A project to sort human-powered aircraft
classes (conventional, unconventional, hybrid, etc.) is underway; anyone may
assist.
http://www.energykitesystems.net/HPA/index.html Anyone in the world is
invited to help on the project. FLPHG members are invited to help sort and
define classes that particularly affect FLPHG. Indeed the propelling
running of conventional FLPHG involves use of pilot muscle power to fly the
wing as the short kite tether is strained in part by the pilot's muscle input.
The e-FLPHG with the charge for the "e" batteries given by way of the
pilot's generation energy prior to flight is a class.
The FLPHG that uses pilot muscle power during flight forms a class of
hybrid HPA with subclasses:
- That muscle power during flight might directly propel the wing.
- The muscle power during flight might be used to react with gusts in an
asset-growing manner to help sustain flight.
- The muscle power during flight might generate electricity to charge
batteries; the energy would be used at tactical moments to sustain flight.
- The FLPHG comes in sorts according to use of LTA gases or not. Use of
LTA gases may be minor or major in the system. Such LTA considerations
branch the subclasses of HPA and hybrid HPA.
- FLPHG that has PIC with also friends pushing or pulling during the
launch flight sequence.
- Then too for the FLPHG realm:
- Fixed-wing FLPHG
- No use of LTA gases
- Use of LTA gases in the craft
- Use of stored pilot energy prior to flight
- Use of stored pilot energy generated during the flight
- Use of energy obtained by gust-reacting driven by pilot muscle
actions.
- Rotary wing FLPHG
- No use of LTA gases in the system
- Use of LTA gases in the craft
- Use of stored pilot energy prior to flight
- Use of stored pilot energy generated during the flight
- Use of energy obtained by gust-reacting driven by pilot muscle
actions.
- Launching a manned kite/hang-glider by use of the muscle power of friends
on the ground provides a class of HPA. Aviation achieved by use of
people towing power.
- Great collection, Roger! Your file
photo HERE shows a green tow line that I took the meet for possible use by
anyone; Taras Kiceniuk and crew made use of the line. The flight shown was
powered by two pilots on the ground as well as by some reactions by the pilot
in the cockpit. ~JoeF
- Stored pilot-generated might be used by a ground-based power winch for
towing the hang glider in launch sector of the flight.
- Concept: Pilot stores his or her energy in a ground-based battery. Use
that energy to power a launch of a hang glider via cable transfer or
power-beam transfer, or carried-battery. The stored energy for the
power beaming or cable transfer could also be sited in a balloon or kite
system or even in a powered aircraft in the environment.
- When human power loads springs or rubber elements with energy for
propelling an aircraft, then one has a HPA sector.
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