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 First
issue of Flight weekly, January 2, 1909, described in Systems of Control
exhibited in craft in the First Paris Aeronautical Salon
intricacies of the controls on aircraft including the "total
flexion" of a one-wing aircraft. In same first issue is a
prize for gliding down mountain with engine off from 500 meters altitude
(recognizing that gliding has been occurring in aviation already). The very many
control schemes with levers already subsumed the old art that was practiced and
in former-years' patents: moving levers to effect control of wing. By the third
issue, readers already showed they knew of hung mass control with TCF; the
editor commented that the method illustrated by reader was not original.
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See
TCF in Flight weekly in 1910, in article for
"Automatic Stability Device", see below image of letter to the
editor, No. 4, Vol. 1.
[[First set of pages seen in the
archive, not first issue; but fourth issue. but first volume]]
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http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200589.html
Notice the editor's comment about the non-novelty. Of course such is true,
as even 1887 Beeson fully taught pendulum control in patent. Others also.
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First issue Flight: page 14, Jan 2, 1909.
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Wright Brothers hung from upper wing. Otto
Lilienthal hung from his tendons and moved his mass relative to wing centers.
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Voison-Delagrange undercarriage pg 15 of Jan. 2, 1909
Flight: 
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Notice how the first issue of Flight kept up attention over
patents on the aviation movement; attention in The Automotor Journal over
patents would be continued in the new weekly Flight:
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[ ] What is this:
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The 4th
issue of Flight weekly: Notice in the following letter to the editor that
certain arts are already taken for granted; the TCF is already assumed;
the hanging seated pilot is already assumed, as hung pilots were occurring for a
long while and the principles published in patents and seen on the flying field.
Now this reader wants discussion on a further advance of that of tip controls
coupled with lateral motion of the hung seated pilot. [Two years before this in
a gliding club in Breslau, the most simple version of pilot hung freely behind
cable-stayed TCF even without protecting wheels, wad built and shown, the same
simplicity as found in the bare-bones Rogallo hang glider; thus the simple 1908
Breslau method found uses in framed-sailed ski kites and later hang gliders; no
one could globally invent the obvious in later decades, no matter how loud they
might try to claim to invent what was already obviously invented. In particular
a crier for JD has yelled very loud hoping to grab invention rights for what was
already invented, as if yelling wins validity! Silly tactic! Weight-shift
of hanging pilot in gliders and in power-off and power-on aircraft with use of
TCF or control A-frame is art from early aviation. [[Dickenson
should be ashamed for letting GH yell out such a deep invalid claim of
invention! The cost will be on both shoulders. Such messy treatment of
aviation's invention movement should not be tolerated by FAI or any other
aviation organization or membership. Ed.]]
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FLIGHT: Ader's Avion No. 3, ribbed-sailed wing parasol
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No. 2, Jan 1909, article continued from the No. 1 had
Santos Dumont's La Demoiselle sketch and report of some short flights, handled
by one man: Notice that Santos Dumont tension hung seated behind TCF; wheels
were on TCF. Glider at engine off. All principles of weight shift understood;
common arts; common knowledge since Cayley a century earlier.
(images of La Demoiselle)
 
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