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Bamboo Hang Gliders
arts, science, craft, history, commentary
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This folder of files, essays, and comments is an evolving adventure.
We await for there to be an online group to be formed with a dedication to bamboo hang glider building and flying.

 

  • Species
  • Sources
  • Soil
  • Limits?
  • Possibles?
  • Cut time
  • Treatments
  • Storage
  • Fills
  • Wraps
  • Lashings
  • Inspection
  • Testing
  • Surfacing
  • Drying tactics
  • Measuring moisture content of bamboo during a drying process
  • What does de-watering do to the qualities of bamboo wanted for hang glider building?
  • What kind of radiations might one use to obtain certain results?  Consider the radiation used in the irradiation of foodstuffs. Source of the radiation?  Cost?  Controls?
  • Storing bamboo during each use stage
  • Humidity affects
  • Light affects
  • Explore the advanced water-repellent surfaces that have been recently found.
  • Lashing tactics
  • Modification of bamboo surface by irradiation of ion beams
  • Wrapping
  • Filling
  • Epoxy/fiberglass
  • Wrapping?
  • Sizes
  • Cutting
  • Could a sail be made from bamboo fibers?
  • Fungus killing 
  • Heat treatment
  • Age of a parts
  • Vascular bundles
  • Parenchyma lignin
  • Materials engineering
  • Tapes
  • Fibers
  • Bamboo textiles
  • Bamboo sails?
  • BHG clubs?
  • BHG meets?
  • BHG society?
  • BHG safety
  • ? send ideas...