June 2009 LIFT
...grows during the month...by your inputs
A Google translate:
"Plain and
simple,
the desire to become a man-bird
can be captured in a baptism of gliding."
==> David Beardslee
==> Rick Masters
== Guido Picca and "Flying Dolly"
and update on Flying Dolly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHF7QBmy3qE
Seedwings
for Asia, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, China,
Japan, Germany, Africa, France, Russia, New Zealand, Egypt,
Turkey, Iraq, Mexico, Ecuador, earth:
Seedwings
==> Full electric plate
will impact hang gliding world:
One.
Look for their "E-Delta" electric hang glider at EAA's 2009 AirVenture
July 27-August 2.
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know
is that it exists
and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of
mind
in which he knows exactly what he wants
and is fully determined not to quit
until he finds it."
--Alexander Graham Bell
paragliding
(four events)
>Dictionary-glossary-encyclopedia
.
you may help grow it
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gnuEASY released The new LE (Laboratori d'Envol) paraglider published: "gnuEASY".
http://www.gliderengineering.com/laboratoridenvol/projects/gnuEASY/index.en.html
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Qualified Hang Glider Pilots What makes a qualified safe hang glider pilot? There are about ten characteristics that lead to an independent, self reliant, and safe pilot. I won't go over all them. Sure, money is a big factor. The average price of instruction at high volume schools is $1500. It takes lots of personal attention, in fact, an average of 81 hours of instruction to make a basically-skilled pilot. That is 20 hours more instruction than the average private pilot student. Time is money and so is glider and vehicle maintenance, fuel costs, being on retainer for the right conditions, promotional effort. But this is just limiting factor not a requirement. So, why is it that it does take so much more instruction than other forms of aviation? The main reason is sensitivity to the variability of conditions and relationship of glider to body. In hang gliding YOU are the aircraft. In general aviation; avionics, wheels, engines, air traffic control, unvarying runways, leveraged control surfaces are mental and physical assists for flight. All these allow anyone that can move a stick to pilot an airplane, given the additional emotional and critical thinking skills required. In hang gliding, one weighs three times heavier than the wing. That means you have three times the resting inertia of the glider. Hooking into a hang glider is more like putting on a shoe or getting on a skateboard then getting into a "vehicle". Therefore, hang gliding is largely an athletic skill that must be married to the ability to disassociate emotions from performance and the intensification of the ability to analyze - that many people take some time to realize. The situation of hang gliding does not give damn about your schedule, cultural customs outside of the requirements. If the surf is up, the surf is up - if the situation warrants a certain kind of flight opportunity or a lesson then you must go! Even the most talented, self assured people get shocked and humbled by this fact. The most important factor is the ability to take what nature allows and decision to bend one's lifestyle to the flying environment. This is why we have many students that do fine with supervision, assistance and set-up of "ideal" flying conditions - and the fortune of having an situation of unvarying schedules based on consistent conditions. But, when these students are met with the unstructured environment of the full lifestyle, they find out the are not willing or able of make their lifestyle's comply. So, the main lesson of hang gliding is humility - compliance to what nature affords us. This is the real reason why hang gliding is so unpopular (and what makes avid independent pilots so special). They are able to adapt to the extreme and sensitive variability of the flying environment. And because of that fact, they become skilled beyond the ideal training situations. Most of us prefer more control whether it be through culture, machines, or preferred situations. I'm sure I will receive many emails from currently avid ex-students and other pilots around the country re-affirming this simple fact - almost no one is a prodigy at free flight. It forces us to see ourselves as we really are - physically, emotionally, technically. It only asks for average ability in all these areas. But most us depend on one or two at most to solve life's problems. We tend to stick to jobs and situations that maximize those abilities and rationalize and project when we are tested against the disowned part of ourselves. The job of a hang gliding instructor is to help a student find the limits of those abilities, so that the student can factor that in operating limitations of future flight plans. Recently, a Hang III pilot from the east coast, largely a Appalachia mountain pilot, took a launch and landing clinic. Her original intent was to have a mountain flight or soaring dune flight - being an awed visitor to Oregon. But conditions were very ambiguous. I told her on the phone it was a 50/50 shot that all her driving was going to amount to a soaring flight. She was also concerned about being back in Portland by the early evening because husband and friends were expecting her. I let her flip the coin. She completely understood the situation and surrendered to it. She immediately started to rationalize ways in which she maximize the situation to something worthwhile and pleasurable. When she arrived at the dune, conditions were very light. I had a couple other ladies taking introductory lessons and she found the ground school presentation very instructive - who knew! She realized she was still a learning pilot. I sensed a whole shift in her, from wanting a recreational flight to wanting to interact with the teaching material. We went over the most recent hand/arm/grip launch configurations; she flew both the trainer Condor and Falcon 170 re-training herself; we did a couple cliff launches and discussed technique and communication protocol. The wind switched from WNW to SW in five minutes. She took the challenge of flying channeling air flow around the south side dunes in the more turbulent back side. She was having a grand time and did spectacularly. The south side is a real test of pilot skill. She really inspired the other ladies. In fact, she was having such a good time, that she conveniently forgot about her social obligations - or at least bent them to her priorities with a cell phone call. Flying trumped the larger culture for her. That is what makes a true and successful hang glider pilot, willingness to be - dare I say - irresponsible to the culture that does not particularly support the hang gliding lifestyle and willingness do what it takes to get the skills. --
John Matylonek |
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Disccuss what it takes to be a qualified hang glider pilot: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
Click through image above for adventure in the sport of hang glider designing
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4June2009 Link notice supplied by Darin Selby
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News
link. Empa , tensairity in kites, Center for Synergetic
Structures, Rolf Luchsinger, Tensairity Kite, an 8 meter span effort,
aiming to generate electricity, test site: Bernese Oberland, aiming for a 30
meter span with helium in tensairity members for solving challenge aloft-stay
during calm, spindle-shaped tensairity,
Empa home page for "New fields of
application for lightweight construction elements. Lightweight wings for a
high-flying kite" Center for Synergetic Structures
Lines in tension on the outside of airbeams
tens air
permits a mechanical advantage over just an airbeam.
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Hybrid wing assembly Frank L. Hodgson
[[Edit: 2012 discussion at
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1047&p=4794]]
Tondokoro or Tondokuro ?? Is this Sano Hisato?
Discuss at OzR.
Sport of hang glider designing
lives to lift spirits and bodies:
Gypsy (Morillio Joined Wing), Paramontante
(Salvadori and Casellas evolutes), FLPHG , BowHG, WoopyWing,
Xwinging, LTAHG (lighter-than-air hang gliders), GSHG
(graphened hang gliders), OMK ("otto" "auto" self-kited morphers), SolidHG,
FLSailplane, FLLG (flatland long gliding gliders), XOHG
(cross-ocean hang gliders), EKSHG (energy kiting systems hang gliders),
EAHG (electric-assisted hang gliders), SEAHG (solar-electric
assisted hang gliders), MHHG (modernized historical hang gliders),
DSHG (dynamic-soaring hang gliders), PCHG (phase-changing hang
gliders), PIWHG (pilot-in-wing hang gliders), HPHG
(human-powered hang gliders), BHG (biplane hang
gliders), THG (triplane hang gliders),
QHG (quadraplane hang gliders),
GyroHG (vertical-axis gyro hang gliders), TensairityHG,
TensegrityHG,
and more.
LIFT
welcomes your ideas, notes, project notes, images, builds, tips,
safety instructions, plans, offers, joys, challenges, buddy notes, dreams,
demo-dates-places, gatherings, meetings, analyses, and more.
Send lifts for others to Editor@UpperWindpower.com
"When
you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't."
– Thomas A. Edison
Testing the semi-rigid wing "Paramontante II", 24 and 25 May,
2009, Bernasconi (La Pampa, AR), by Juan Salvadori (CZWings Aerovelería) in
collaboration with Pere H. Casellas (Laboratori d'envol). More information:
http://www.czwings.com.ar/ and
http://www.laboratoridenvol.com/proje... [The walk is moving
forward in a 27 km/hr wind. (~17 mi/hr)]
Ensayos con el ala semirígida "Paramontante II", el 24 y 25 de mayo de 2009 ,
Bernasconi (La Pampa, AR), por Juan Salvadori (CZWings aerovelería) en
colaboración con Pere H. Casellas (Laboratori d'envol). Más información en
http://www.czwings.com.ar/ y
http://www.laboratoridenvol.com/projects/paramontante/index.en.html
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Fun page ...some pilots and some early pics. .. USPPA |
Have fun: with Ellehammer or or near-Ellehammer in first decade of 1900s: http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=c9c61bac7892249d_landing |
An Otto: http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=fd78c504e9258d3f_large |
Touching 2005:Listening again to Horizon reasons. And while you are there, take in Paul Dees, foundation guy. http://www.cloudbase.org/Portals/0/Newsletters/2005/February2005.pdf |
June 1, 2009 On a lighter note, Tony Prentice |
Design and Performance of a Hang Glider 36 page PDF
Submitted By: |
Archives
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XOHG (no link yet) Cross-Ocean Hang Gliding |
The Exxtacy A pilot tells his story... (by Hansjörg Trisllinsinn, who has no commercial interest in the world of Free Flight.) :"The Exxtacy has been front and center since Summer '97." |
Mark Hayman's
The Cold Hard Truth as he ends a blog series. |
Dual leading edge ram air air foil Dorald C. Tabor |
In preparation: Welcome ... notes, drawings, photos, articles, tips, links, humor, opinion, data,
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Editorial: Wear your critical thinking cap when facing the GH push for unearned mechanical invention claiming. GH is pushing again for that which belongs to others. JD's idiosyncratic experience is indeed fun and socially important, but mechanically his mechanicals resulted in only that which had already been fully mechanically invented, exposed, flown, promulgated, published, patented, noted, described, and professionalized. JD's results exhibited in result only prior mechanical art--no matter how much he might have been unaware of such prior art; his position in kiting helped to popularize ski-kiting in Australia, not assumptive mechanical invention. Declaration of mechanical invention is a high standard space that FAI and others are invited to respect with great effort and careful respect. There is a GH-bulldozer pushing to alter perceptions in a way that would rob points from the heart of the sport and profession of hang-glider mechanical inventing. To attract hang glider mechanical inventors
to our sports: Respect valid global mechanical inventing; make the effort to find the
mechanical inventors; honor the rightful owners of hang glider mechanical
invention. And similarly for ornamental product artists-makers-tinkerers.
But distinguish the two innovation spaces in order to equip oneself to
find and see the mechanical innovators. |
May 31, 2009 Regarding Rogallo and Dr. Rogallo John,
(Mr. John LaTorre) Notice too how specifically in 1971 or 1972 Dr. Rogallo decried how
others were trying to take credit for what he had already taught
{republication of his letter from Low & Slow is on the front page of
HangGliderHistory.com); he was
not an overt text distinguisher between ornamental and hardcore mechanical
patents; he was glad others used what he taught in ornamental alternative
versions like the very many versions in 1960, 1961 and 1962: see the
scores of published images of variations of the theme in the world's
literature for those years. He did not bring out text recognition of
the 1900-1910 stiffenened flexible wing gliders and hang glider (whose
users had not the fully-flexible limp discovery that Rogallo discovered). (more...? : ) ) |
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"He who would learn to fly one day |
Weird Woopy Trike |
What to do with those drinking cups? |
Francis M.
Rogallo ...a continuing project; all are invited to advance the files. |
Homebuilt Power Unit / Powered Hang glider |
Wings Over Wasatch Aerobatics Clinic in August 2009 |
THHGC
No matter where you are on earth, consider joining this club. See the history of cliff soaring to see why. |
RC Soaring Digest
Find all interfaces with manned free flight |
A dynamic analysis of a landing flare |
“We might extend the application of [wind] power to the heights of the clouds, by means of kites.” utopian technologist John Etzler, 1833 |
René Arnoux |
Fauvel gliders |
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Tendon-tether the kite and move from A to B (Jonathan)
Distinguish the Dietch tendon tethering the wing from James Budge's sail that was hard coupled with the skateboard and also hand-held. Dietch simply tendon-tethered the wing. Both Dietch in Chacago and Budge in Santa Monica, California were involved in hang gliding; Budge was photographing Seagul hang gliders while advancing the sailed skateboard. Jonathan was designing and flying hang gliders and tendon-tethering sails above his foot-based skatboard. |
Enter your comments HERE to affect hang glider universe. |
http://flyingoutofthisworld.blogspot.com/2008/02/flying-seeds-reproduction-by-wind.html
Igo Etrich Taube
1906 and 1908
Austria encyclopedia
glider note re: 1906:
Etrich's dad buying from Otto L.'s estate. |
Alsomitra Zanonia Pterosaur Mission-adaptive wings |
earlybirds And A-frame or cable-stayed triangle control frame on battened hang glider in 1908 with pilot hung behind triangle ... as is familiar today. Then such 1909: Then powered wings
1909 Watkins monoplane |
https://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Langley-EarlyFlyingMachine/IMAGES/langley-flying-machine.jpg |
http://www.modelflight.regheath.com/earlybirds/images/1910Ferguson.jpg |
1910 Grade
Click through photo:
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http://www.glide.net.au/on-the-wing4/190-Lippisch-IX.pdf From 1921 ... |
Fuel-filled
launch procedure for hang glider flight:
4. Flatland scene:: Anchor
huge kite in mild breeze. Climb the tether; pull up hang glider to
lofted kited platform. At altitude, assemble hang glider; hook-in; make
checks. Foot-launch off the kited platform into soaring flight. No fuel
here. Send furtherings on this: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
http://www.warwickmills.com/Fibers/Mars-Lander-Crashbags.jpg Any use in HG/PG? Notes are welcome: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
JUNE 27, 2009 WORKING
TEXT....TRANSLATION WILL BE IMPROVING PER DAY:
RPA ... releasable power assembly. Hang glider pilot takes off with a RPA and then releases the RPA to do free flight gliding disciplines. The RPA returns to launch site and is then used by other pilots. There are various ways to couple RPAs with a hang glider or paraglider for launch assistance. Guido Picca is forwarding an interesting direction. LIFT's translation of his note ...at his permission (welcome corrections by anyone during the coming days and weeks): Hello LIFT, 1. Lower operating cost compared to using a manned AT tug. 2. Lower cost of manufacturing compared to AT. 3. Motor or engine of 20 hp. 4. Easier to hangar. 5. Can be carried on the roof of any car. 6. The mechanicals can be altered to serve hang gliders and paragliders. 7. This RPA RCA greatly expands the potential for
growing hang gliding and paragliding. I made a prototype that flew coupled with hang glider
and free radio. The flights were promising.
Subject: Flying Dolly Dolly Volador Hello Joe |
June 2009:
Tandem up in power-assist. Separate the two pilots; one
continues with the bare hang glider; the other glides back down to club launch
site with the power-assist hardware: So, I see in the flash idea
that perhaps we could side-step the unmanned RC flying dolly by starting out the
flight with two persons in the power-assisted arrangement. The tandem launch
with the flying cart or tug dolly would climb to desired altitude. Then the
flying dolly with one pilot would detach with all hardware related to the
power-assist. The released part and pilot need not use fuel or electric power;
the released flying dolly and pilot would glide to the flatland launch area
where the same flying-dolly pilot could attach to the next club member's rig.
The other pilot will have his or her hang glider to practice gliding/soaring
disciplines from the release/separation point forward. This system will not be
using RC, will not be using a tug Dragonfly aircraft, and will not be having any
lose uninhabited air vehicle in the airspace. All parts will be under human
direct pilot control at all times. The released pilot and flying dolly is a
subsystem that could take many forms; one form might involve intended use of a
gliding parachute; another form could be morphable extended wings.
Surely we are not at the end of
this thread. I invited the thread followers to look at last year's thread in
FLPHG group where ideas
close to this thread's subject were covered. That invitation is still up. The
acronym of RPA was formed for "releasable power assembly." During that
FLPHG thread, the tandem flash idea did not arrive.
Cheers,
JoeF
PS: edit later: The released pilot that returns
with the flying cart might be the least-weighted member of the club. We might
pay the dolly pilot for his time and effort. However, a tiny pilot might really
enjoy the tandem flight up and the solo flight return with the flying dolly or
tugdolly.
June 26, 2009
4. Modified PG? Several directions interest
me:
A. Reefable and busable airbeam-tensairitied-boned PG. The interior of the
advanced airbeams would use reefable parts and sub-bladders following some
recent airbeam patent instructions.
B. Paramontante direction
C. Graphened and PVed with captured ram-air followed with high-pressure
maintenance …and smart-pressure maintenance; this would also have some spanwise
and chordwise boning that would not bother busability.
JpF
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