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I might
be recalling issues of the Automotor Journal that then started Flight.
Also, there was another publication that I visited that had a key article on
TCF. I am looking at 1909 Flight weekly. But there was another publication
that I believe I am vaguely recalling that
still is being sought again. CHALLENGE OR CHANGE note to Mark W. of 2012 in two
forums.
"1. FLIGHT fully described the intricacies of "the control method" in its first
issue (sic, first issued volume).
So, J.D. did not invent such. "
[[First
set of pages seen in the archive, not first issue; but fourth issue, but
first volume.]]
FLIGHT,
first official issue: Controlling aircraft as embodied in the
displayed craft at the First Paris Aeronautical Salon.
One-hand control
Two-hand control
These were described.
Levers that modified the wing parts when moved.
[[Already known was the simple airframe push and pull TCF that moved pilot
weight in relation to aerodynamic centers. Breslau 1908. Now in 1909 craft
control
worked the principles into levers and cables to effect the same. Ed]]
The Ader Machine and its pilot: [ ] ....
Page 9, January 2, 1909 Flight
Systems of Control
total flexion on monoplane
[[Indeed, the most simple Rogallo hang glider receives total flexion upon
mass-of-pilot movement. Ed. ]]
page 3: Grade flight noted.
To anyone
skilled in the arts, it is obvious that in the first issue of FLIGHT, that the
already well-known weight-shift control method had morphed to control via levers
and surfaces to effect the same control better for larger flying machines. No
longer would the simple Lilienthal and Pilcher and first Chanute and Breslau
1908 control (used popularly yet in 2012 for one-person hang gliders of the
simple sort) be adequate for the larger machines intent on power and carrying
heavy payloads. The intricacies of the control method simply expanded the
already 100 year-old Cayley instructed mass-balance method of control; the task
now in 1909 was to keep handling larger machines, not just a single pilot's body
hung from a wing; advance of the simple system was the order of the day in 1909.
