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 How will I know how far I'll fly? I’m high flying and free There’s a sun rising for me, There may be cities beyond the roof tops Oceans beyond the seas I'll fly out to a faraway sky, No one has traveled so far Out to a faraway star Maybe farther. There’s a new world out there, Coming to find me Everything’s waiting up ahead Nothing is behind me, If I don’t dream, If I don’t try, How will I know how far I'll fly? There may be mountain peaks, I want to slide down, There may be rivers fast and wide I want to ride down. If I don’t dream, If I don’t try, How will I know how far I'll fly. From movie Napoleon Special thanks to Neil Larson for the header art for this issue and for the Want Ads page! Happy New Year, Neil.
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Seedwings What is this? {
At frist blush , it
possibly could be a freight-
hauling craft of some type.
With the open area in
the center and the four prop
set-up seems to indicate this could lift a great weight.
But upon further
investigation - it is the latest prototype of the Makani Power, Inc.
team -
Experimental Wind
Turbine Flying Craft with a potential to invert wind into 20 Kilowatts
- This craft can hover
, remaining in sustained directional attitude.
Neil Larson
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Happy new
year! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reports of explorations on making and kiting the wing are
invited in time. There will be manned and unmanned reports, maybe from
you.
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tags: single-surface, Barretina Hyperlite, Pere
Casellas, Laboratori d'envol
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Some
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From a
US Hawks discussion thread:   Tony
Prentice, hang glider pioneer of UK, offers: When doing low level testing the skis provided a fail safe allowing a belly landing without damage. Some of the slopes used for testing were very shallow and extended glides in ground effect would bleed off speed leaving insufficient for a full flare stand up landing. The skis also allowed a complete novice (see attached photos) to master the landing without too much drama. ~Tony Prentice [Note expressed on 8Jan2012 concerning the 1970s explorations.] ============================== In this Safe-Splat project at US Hawks, someone may consider advancing a deployable version of what is seen.  All
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What fine wings you are flying, Frank Colver !  
kewl .....
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REFERENCES at article found here. REFERENCES Ashford P. 1990. Stabilising paravane experiments. Low Drag Craft .AYRS Publication No. 107. Ashford P. 1994. Seadogs for monohulls. Ultimate Sailing: The Hapa Revisited . AYRS Publication No. 114. Beringer W. 1996. Parawings . Verlag fu Èr Technik und Handwerk. Biegler R. 2001. Taking a `seadog' for a walk. AYRS Catalyst 1, 24±25.Bradfield W.S. 1979. High speed sailing vehicles. Speed Sailing . AYRS Publication No. 93. Bruce E. and Morss H. 1965/1970/1976. Opinions about Hydrofoils .AYRS Publications Nos 51, 74 and 82. Burgess C.P. 1939/1995. Sailing airships at sea. Reprinted in Ultimate Sailing III. AYRS Publication No. 118. Costes D. 1994/1996. Windsailing for airships and gliders: using the `Seadog'. Ultimate Sailing IV. AYRS Publication No. 122. Costes D. 1995. A description of some seadog inventions. Ultimate Sailing III . AYRS Publication No. 118. Glencross R. 1993. Sailing craft Hagedoorn. AYRS Projects . AYRS Publication No. 112. Glencross R. 1996. Kites and Hapas at Speedweek 1996. Ultimate Sailing IV. AYRS Publication No. 112. Hagedoorn J.G. 1971/1994. Ultimate Sailing: Introducing the Hapa/Ultimate Sailing: The Hapa Revisited. AYRS PublicationNo. 114. Hagedoorn J.G. 1975. Ultimate sailing. Scientific American , March (page numbers unavailable). Hanschke T. 1976. Segeln auf Gletschern. Alpinismus 12. Kitson T. 1994. The experimental craft at Weymouth 1992±4. Speed Sailing and Speed Weeks 1992±4. AYRS Publication No. 115. Morwood J. 1961. An inflatable kite. Aerodynamics I . AYRS Publication No. 37. Pocock G. 1827/1851. The Aeropleustic Art. Facsimile reprint, 1 Jan1969, by Edward L. Stearn, San Francisco, CA. Quinton B. 2001. Winds of change: a rally for innovative watercraft. AYRS Catalyst 1, 5. Roeseler C. 1997. A field study of kite-powered hydrofoil theory. Transport Sailcraft. AYRS Publication No. 124. Roeseler W. and Funston N. 1979. The Sea Nymph and the ancient Egyptian Yacht. The Ancient Interface Sailing Symposium1979 , Pomona, CA. AIAA. Schmidt T. 1984. Unusual sailing systems for kites. The Naval Architect E, 75±76. Schmidt T. 1985/1995. Hapa development 1980±1985. Reprinted in Ultimate Sailing III. AYRS Publication No. 118. Schmidt T. 1991. A short history of Hapas. Foils and Hapas. AYRS Publication No. 108. Schmidt T. 1994/1996. Hagedoorn, Glencross and the Hapa. Ultimate Sailing IV. AYRS Publication No. 122. We at LIFT add the following in similar interest and topic: |
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Electricity in hang gliding?
Slants are invited.
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Lift in water arrives by buoyancy and thrust from lifting
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A Day in the Life of Professional Hang Glider Pilot Steve Stackable
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Dancing with the
Antichrist John Heiney launching from the Anticline Overlook and scratching back up to 800 over for a top landing one day after Craig Pirazzi made the first ever launch from the Anticline on July 31, 2011. |
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Skynch - The electric paraglider winchThen, consider charging those batteries using kite-energy tactics and/or solar-energy means and/or pilot-muscle vibrations. |
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Smart parachutes, computer-guided parachutes, manned or unmanned smart
parachutes,
ParaFinder and ParaLander
General study: http://tinyurl.com/SmartParachutesLIFTforAWES
These developing gliding kites no doubt have tech of interest to the
AWES arena. Sensors, position sensing, mechanical servos, control
code, etc.
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Attending to the parachute world are three books by Dan Poynter:
See Dan Poynter's Parachute
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Tradition of wing running on flatland continues!
First
test with wings!
Discuss.
==This video http://www.humanbirdwings.net/about/first-test-with-wings/ has been put up by Jarno of his first flight attempts. Some suggestion that the image has been done by computer generated graphics. The quality of the video does seem to diminish during the "flight" sequence. With all the effort shown on the site having just one camera poorly sited to cover the flight would seem rather remiss of his team. Also panning down to the ground at the beginning and end also seems strange. A lot of effort if it is a just a stunt? Tony ==Fun. Part of a loooooonnnnng tradition! Wing running! (WR)
1. Flapper branch
2. Glider-only branch
__2a. Hang glider running practice
__2b. Serious high -performance wing with intent to glide over a flat
field for distance.
3. No-intent to fly play-wing running with any size of wing.
4. WR with Safe Splat™ systems
JoeF ===Machine-translated-many-errors possible:
Translated from Russian
"Ornithopter
or MAHOLET built in Canada
Reply by Russian observer - Yesterday at 20:01:38 I think that Jarno has chosen a very good concept. While this video does not appear, some of the advantages such an approach are obvious. Previously, it seemed that the main advantage of its design in the management, ease of manufacture with an eccentric drive (well, light weight, thanks to an electric model aircraft engine), and ease of repetition. Like, on the basis of this concept will be able to repeat the followers of other apparatus, but with more powerful engines, enhanced design, etc., that sooner or later lead to the flying pattern. Moreover, the shape (elongation, area, construction of the wings), it could be a machine, quite unlike the wings of Jarno. But now, after watching the movie, in my view, priorities are shifting. In the foreground is felicity drive. Due to the large elongation and very low amplitude swings, it came out that the carbon fiber spar ending work effectively in an elastic mode (see video). This potentially eliminates the problem of compensation of inertia. A setting of the control software engines with appropriate time delays, we can use this effect and significantly reduced power consumption. Now there certainly drives spinning at a constant power, so when the wing is stalled in the extreme positions, the currents increase and bask in vain engines. But at this point can be engines "off", wait at the expense of the elastic wing spar will be an extreme point, and will return in the opposite direction, and then "turn on" at full capacity for the power mach. And as all this can be done programmatically, but I see no problems in implementation. In the hard drive is a mechanical crank so it would be difficult to focus. And then return the graph cursors current consumption (typically the work of model aircraft engines is being watched by the current, it is their full-time function), by which we can determine in what points need to reduce power.
Another advantage become apparent when tested turned out that due to
the large elongation and elastic rails, real strides amplituha was
more than a mechanical drive issue in itself. And
it was at the end of the wing. Thus,
the wings in a similar geometry to lengthen and the amplitude of the
swings in fact working as motor glider, only instead of the engine
with the propeller thrust is creating end portions of the wings. So
on the whole flight should be on the dynamics is similar to a hang
glider with motopodveskoy, which is quite acceptable. Center
section is created in the main load-bearing function. And
because of that up too mahah creates a positive thrust (or negative
buoyancy), the center of mass of the apparatus should not be very
jerky vertically. This
mode is actually reduced to Mach vibration end parts, which so far
comes from a long wing to the pilot, may come to naught. Unlike
the bird maholetov that make max power only down and up passive,
there is a fluctuation of the pilot will be more difficult ... (Although
there also has its advantages).
Therefore, the chances of a good and practical flying machine in such a very, very great, IMHO. And we can expect a whole class maholetov just such a plan. In a sense, similar in geometry and mode swings. First to fly in calm weather, well, then to the extent of use of statistics and tests, who knows, maybe in termichku. Then the possibility of self-launching motor and flight between thermals and the thermals themselves in planning with fixed wings, would be an ideal application for this maholeta. Given the electrical nature of engines with a small reserve, but easy-to-home storage, low noise, etc. This is certainly the dream of many people on free hovering flight, without reference to the winches and other airfield infrastructure. The quality and quantity waver surface aerodynamic forces - these are trifles. The former can improve the frequency of the ribs, with Jarno they are very rare. A second increase engine power, is now available for sale almost four times the power supply (2 * 7 kW = 14 kW instead of the present author used 2 * 2 = 4 kW kW). Weight is not particularly increased and will remain within acceptable limits for the knapsack. The key point - this is a great extension, low amplitude and high frequency of strides strides (or with great force by powerful engines.) And more likely to control dazhkammi eventually reduced to the joystick, which will simply increase or decrease the engine speed as the throttle on the paramotor. And, perhaps, change the frequency differential of the left and right engine to turn. But while the test manual control mahami is what you need. END OF MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN COMMENT." " |
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