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Scratching, rough:
Canard WingSled™ for Hang Gliders ;
LandingSled™
CWS™ Send notes to :
Notes@HangGliderMagazine.com
and or post in the wiki at HangGliding.org
- A wiki is started for others to use to advance some notes about some of
these matters that have been inspired by the downwind downslope challenge of
NMErider. wiki:
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/SoGHG and
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/Low_canard_sled_wing
- July 15, 2010: OZ Report post in "High hats" Increasingly
some "low hats" added to hang gliders
will cause the ordinary hat hang glider wing to become
relatively a "high hat." Watch for a family of low canard
wings to enter the scene as "low hats" making most
wings "high hats." In part, the low hats will be playing
several functions in order for the regular-hats-become-high-hat
to protect neck, heads, shoulders, faces, eyes, backs,
and serving with-wind landings and downwind downslope
landings.
Following primary safety functions could be
secondary functions: monitor surface, plan surface,
checklist surface. Monitor views will include in some cases
realtime reports from above and behind the glider.
The interior space of the low hat could hold various
developments: energy storage, instrument brains, first-aid,
second rescue chute, self-kiting gear, etc., depending on
the particular system. The high hats (former main regular
wing) will be slightly modified to accommodate a frontal
low canard low-hat wing.
All are invited to advance the canard low
hat that
will bring the ordinary HG wing to "high hat" status.
A wiki and a working page besides this thread are open for the growth:
http://www.energykitesystems.net/TCF/index.html
and
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/Low_canard_sled_wing
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- Compare the usefulness of WingSled against the skids of primary gliders.
- ETRICH 1907
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- ETRICH 1907
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