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Consider copy-paste one of these in the Keywords field:

• hang glider

• hang gliding

• paragliding

• ultralights

• microlights

• kites

• kiting

•    "Product Lines" by Dan Johnson:   December 2000     November 2000     October 2000     September 2000     August 2000     July 2000     June 2000     May 2000     April 2000     March 2000     February 2000     January 2000 
• HangGliderHistory online group founded.
• Paramontante by Juan Salvadori started. Later in 2009 open collaborative efforts deepened the project.
• http://www.usppa.org/  Seeds germinate to form powered paraglider organization
• Lift system intended for free-falling persons 
  
  Abstract
  A lift system is described for free-falling persons including a lift body with a belt system which can be detachably attached to a person. The lift body is designed so that it defines a direction of flight in the longitudinal axis of the person, and a device for detaching the lift system in a free-fall phase, a flight phase or a landing phase from the person. The lift body has an overall delta-wing shaped design.
  
  Patent number: 6685135
  Filing date: Mar 6, 2000
  Issue date: Feb 3, 2004
  Inventor: Alban Geissler
   

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• Douglas James Maconochie
  Winged Sailing Craft  A sailing craft that can transform from wind propulsion mode to flying mode...
  [Its use includes a hang gliding sector. ]
   
•  Dr. Andy Buchan's article on Climbing & Airspeed for powered hang gliders was published in the May/June issue of BMAA's  publication.

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• "Product Lines" by Dan Johnson:     December 2001     November 2001     October 2001     September 2001     August 2001     July 2001     June 2001     May 2001     April 2001     March 2001     February 2001     January 2001 
• Gary Osoba
• Greg  Cole, designer of an FAR 103 Ultralight sailplane:  January 11, 2002 - First flight of the SparrowHawk glider:
  

  The very first flight of the SparrowHawk glider occurred on a small public airstrip outside of Bend, Oregon. Doug Taylor was the capable pilot on the stick of the new glider.  FAQs.  
  See also: gSHccu1       (all carbon fiber composite)
  [Ed.:  Mull over a future where nanotech materials and prone hung pilot is streamlined into the keel; a hint of that future is kissed--but not achieved--by the SparrowHawk. Consider a low-speed foot-launched device that morphs to sailplane profile after flying a bit.]  SH1   Google meter on Dec. 8, 2007 for "all carbon composite sailplane" was 5.  For "all carbon composite hang glider":: 0. And "carbon fiber composite hang glider":: 0.  

• Robert Franklin, artist and hang glider from Hawaii, produced this high quality map--raising the bar for illustrating hang glider flights! Thank you, Robert!   World Record Encampment Map Graphic [WRE]:

• "Product Lines" by Dan Johnson:     December 2002     November 2002     October 2002     September 2002     August 2002     July 2002     June 2002     May 2002     April 2002     March 2002     February 2002     January 2002 
• Hyde rebuilds 1902 Wright glider (hybrid hang glider: hanging from above wing, compressing on lower wing).  psWG1 
• Trike article psTr1 
   
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• HGH editor received a letter of recommendation for teaching math in secondary schools from Dr. Jesús Dapena;  a thanks card of art collage image was created with Dr. Dapena's favorite aircraft. Dr. Dapena is the No. 1 scientist over high jumping biomechanics; he has understood Faust connection hang gliding.

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  Integrated kite control bar and controlled tension release safety device Ross Davis Harrington et al
   

   

• "Product Lines" by Dan Johnson:   December 2003     November 2003     October 2003     September 2003     August 2003     July 2003     June 2003     May 2003     April 2003     March 2003     February 2003     January 2003 
   
• Tube Kites, caution (invert, hang on, release tow); dangerous excitement tickles dreams of inflated hang gliders.
• Sunny Venesky:  recipient of the United States Hang Gliding Association (USHGA) Hang Gliding Instructor of the Year award. http://www.aerosports.net/Highland%20Aerosports%20Inc/Gallery/sunnyhandslap.jpg
• Progress on single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT). Abstract: This invention relates generally to a forming an array of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) in an electric field and compositions thereof. In one embodiment, a purified bucky paper of single-wall carbon nanotubes is used as the starting material. Upon oxidative treatment of the bucky paper surface, many tube and/or rope ends protrude up from the surface of the paper. Disposing the resulting bucky paper in an electric field results in the protruding tubes and or ropes of single-wall carbon nanotubes aligning in a direction substantially perpendicular to the paper surface. These tubes tend to coalesce to form a molecular array. In another embodiment, a molecular array of SWNTs can be made by “combing” the purified bucky paper starting material with a sharp microscopic tip to align the nanotubes.
  U. S. Patent number: 7087207     Filing date: Aug 7, 2003   Issue date: Aug 8, 2006 Inventors: Richard E. Smalley, Daniel T. Colbert, Hongjie Dai, Jie Liu, Andrew G. Rinzler, Jason H. Hafner, Kenneth A. Smith, Ting Guo, Pavel Nikolaev, Andreas Thess   [Hang glider and paraglider design will continually be affected by advances from nanotechnology as the the century unfolds. Every system and subassembly of a self-soar system has the potential of being affected by nanomaterials and processes.]
   
• Abstract   A remote position monitoring system, method, and computer-program product using a global position satellite receiver and information from at least two global position satellites to determine a position of a mobile object with the global position satellite receiver and report via Internet the position of the mobile object to a recipient in search of the mobile object. A remote position reporting device of the monitoring system can be part of or attached to any mobile object such as a child, a skier, a car, and expensive items. The remote position reporting device includes a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, monitoring software and an Internet access module. The monitoring software (e.g., a dynamic link library) supports multiple data formats and multiple protocols to communicated the position information. The GPS receiver provides the monitoring software with position information at prescribed times, and the monitoring software records the position information. ...
  U. S. Patent number: 6961659     Filing date: Jun 27, 2003 Issue date: Nov 1, 2005 Inventors: Tetsuro Motoyama, Avery Fong.
   
• Pilcher Triplane Replica
  2003 at Cranfield, UK ...photos taken by Tony Prentice
   
• Apparatus and method for aerodynamic wing
  US Pat. 7093803 - Filed Dec 16, 2003   Filing date: Dec 16, 2003
  Issue date: Aug 22, 2006      Inventor: David A. Culp   www.KiteShip.com  [Ed:  There is a strong use of fully-flexible kite sails that remind one of the Rogallo parawing family of sails, but it seems that the KiteShip company leaves itself open to the use of any kite in its systems, e. g. Jalbert parafoil wings.] 
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  Aerodynamic wing to propel a broad range of transport means, principally sail craft. The wing provides a single layer kite structure capable of flying without surface discontinuity, bridles, or rigid or semi-rigid structure. All stresses within the wing are converted into pure tension and transferred through the wing surface outward to attachment lines. The wing shape defines a large diameter self-supporting rolled over leading edge of an airfoil and the wing profile approaching the trailing edge exhibits increasing convexity. The wing is useful to propel, or supplement propulsion to, transportation means.  [Ed. The patent claims seem to strive to make a distinction for the sail that sets it apart from the Rogallo, Barish, and Jalbert wings; whether or not the sail intended is a proper subset of the Rogallo parawing will remain a matter of interesting discussion for years to come. Single-lob Rogallo parawing governable parachutes/paragliders/traction kite/hang-gliders would have a presence in such a discerning discussion.]
  Apparatus and method for aerodynamic wing 
  David A. Culp

See KiteShip for a full commercialization effort of  the KiteShip™  and  OutLeader™  . Another service name in Dave Culp's innovative world is Kite Tug ™  
See also:   KiteTug     and   DCss.org

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• A godfather of hang gliding took the Next Thermal in January:   ssaRM1
• Brett Snellgrove published an essay regarding possible stiffenings of paragliders in HGFA organ and elsewhere (?); he releases the same essay here: click: Paragliders. We will be developing links to the issues involved.
   
• "Product Lines" by Dan Johnson: April 2005  |    March 2005   |    February 2005     January 2005     December 2004     November 2004     October 2004     September 2004     August 2004     July 2004     June 2004     May 2004     April 2004     March 2004     February 2004     January 2004     
   

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       Daniel Lorenzo Blum
  Patent number: 7097134
  Wing device for sporting activities Daniel Lorenzo Blum
  Filing date: Mar 22, 2004
  Issue date: Aug 29, 2006
  Inventor: Daniel Lorenzo Blum
  
  
   

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• Inflatable wing
  with active canopy profile
  control 
  Alex Peterson et al
   

Abstract
An aerodynamic wing formed by a flexible canopy with an internally routed canopy line for controlling the canopy profile.

 

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Abstract
An airfoil for use in kites, movable wing aircraft and fixed wing aircraft has a straight spar inserted into a sleeve in the arcuate leading edge of a flexible wing panel. The resultant forces on the spar dynamically shape the airfoil. The airfoil is reinforced by battens between the leading edge and the trailing edge of the wing panel. Flight control is maintained through control lines warping the airfoil.   U. S. Patent number: 7007889 Filing date: Jun 15, 2004


 

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• "Product Lines" by Dan Johnson: April 2005  |    March 2005   |    February 2005     January 2005 
   
• Tube Kites, caution Wego Kite Tube gWKT : dangerous excitement tickles dreams of inflated hang gliders. Pulled from market in 2007.
   
• Brett Stewart Snellgrove patents spinal protector. US 20050062274   Kind code: A1, appears to be in application stage; Brett has let the application expire for cost/benefit estimate reaons. See it: http://144.202.252.20/20050062274.html  (free registration)
  [ Lovetosaurus , AKA in OZ Report]     Brett Snellgrove  

  Application number: 10/664,742
  Publication number: US 2005/0062274 A1
  Filing date: Sep 18, 2003

  Brett passed in September of 2010.  
   

• Mike Riggs shows POD at Sun 'n Fun
• G. W. Meadows sells U. S. Aeros in 2005.

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• Sevylor water kite inflated; how will it go as a glider and as a hang glider; will someone hang from this and test it as a hang glider? Sterns, Inc. taking over Sevylor. One of several potential items: Manta-Ray --consider hang flying the freed item (safety caution)? Send other notes about similar inflatables.
• Hangglider Tiles Poster
• March 18, 2006: at the fall USHPA Board of Directors Meeting, the Linknife was awarded the National Aeronautic Association Safety Award.
• March 26, 2006, Angelo D'Arrigo    wDAD1  gDAD1 
• Just 160 AA batteries   See.
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, ultralight solar-powered:  UAVsp1
     
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    Ted Stratton, photographer:  www.edited.com   The Dunes at Sand City, 125 south of San Francisco, California,  on  10/22/2006    Pilot is Wes Stratton; his mother is watching. 
  Study flight of sand particles to form city-swallowing sand dunes.

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ATOS VR

• ATOS Cage  http://www.a-i-r-usa.com/content.asp?ID=4250&I=5928 
  V, VX, VR, VQ, Cage

==> Futurisms         

• Enter suggestion.
•  Thanks, Simon Haynes, son of  John Haynes of NHGA/Waspair (UK) fame    Jan. 22, 2007    John Haynes in 1972 started hang gliding in UK.    National Hang Gliding Association  NHGA  Waspair  Research caution: There might be some misspellings of "Haines".    Early days of British hang gliding:   http://www.british-hang-gliding-museum.co.uk/P_index.html    Brothers: Terry Haynes and John Haynes. Son of John Haynes is Simon Haynes.
   
• John Bentley points to Wikipedia  as a neat target for HGHT. Agreed. Anyone is invited to translate and input in that direction. The flexibilities and time costs here by me will be more productive for the specific "timeline" evolution. Efforts by wiki workers is ever encouraged; the dual process will net some added benefits for the hang gliding community. Jan. 22, 2007   Anyone is invited to advance the Wikipedia project from material presented here in HGHT. Each process has some distinct editorial assets; there are some ups and downs, pros and cons in both processes; from both going in parallel, perhaps we will have a grand party! "w" in front of series links here in HGHT will be a wiki file. "g" appended to a link will indicate a Google search file for the item.  See Paresev and see Kiceniuk on this HGHT (use page global search). Donate a bit to both projects. Some funds are needed here, as normal.             Donate
   
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• Data-entry forms made and proofed on Jan. 29, 2007.
• Improvements?    Special novel dated actions?
  Novel modifications? Dreams? System experiments; lessons learned?
• Inventions.
• Factual advances in design, system, parts, subassembly?
• New application for a hang glider?
• First publication of an idea.
• First to __________. Who, what, where, when, notes, links?
• Full disclosures on cable-leading edge designing; cable may support formers and cambering devices.
• Adjoining control systems
• Noteworthy regulations
• Safety
• Launching solutions
• Recovery and emergency systems
• Information systems
• Control systems. Amplified weight-shift control systems.
• A very robust timeline may help historians write their perspective.
   

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• Foot-launched and non-foot-launched hang gliders are in view, as the hardware inventions are intertwined and applications intertwine. Foot-launchability is not the limit to hang gliding.
• Free-flight gliding parachute types of hang gliders: gliding near-conicals, Barish, Jalbert, Rogallo, etc. ...also seen as free-flight manned kiting systems. Paragliders. Real parachutes have resultant sectors of flight that involves glide ratio above zero.  Governable parachutes.
• Monoplane
• Biplane  (cantilever both, tensegrity braced, Boy Mechanic, Waterman Flyer, etc..)
• Multi-plane
• Canard
• Rogallo
• Flex-wing (in-keel pilot, pilot below and outside of keel (any of a numerous sorts of pilot-holding mechanisms of various rigidities and formats to solve particular use criteria)
• Rigid wing
• Foam-only
• Tandem-wing
• Double biplane (tandem of biplanes)
• Multi-plane (2, 3, ...n)
• Hybrids of any category or class
• Flying wings at any degree of flexibility
• In-flight "morphable" hang glider ---transform from one category to another during flight
• Hydrogen or helium inflated hang glider..or major parts therein...
• Hang glider mode of an aircraft that might have a dominant classification other than hang glider...
• Pilot-launched gliders and sailplanes that are reasonably pilot-carryable and flikable aircraft that are self-soarable without needing fuels other than solar-energy,  ambient oxygen, pilot-food. Human-powered  aircraft that are pilot-carryables and flikables are in view.
• Rotating-wing hang gliders (vertical axis of rotation (gyro), horizontal axis of rotation (Magnus-effect), and those with multiplicities of operation wings.
• Model R-C hang gliders...power-assisted launching as well.
• Unmanned hang gliders
• Any hang glider captured by the proposed definition.

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• First to fly a hang glider?
• First to fly a Rogallo hang glider?
• First to fly a biplane hang glider?
• First to fly a tri-plane hang glider?
• First to fly a tandem-wing hang glider?
• First to fly a quadri-plane hang glider?
• First to fly a monoplane hang glider?
• First to fly an all-foam hang glider?
• First to fly a hang glider made from one-injection-molding manufacture
• First to fly a hang glider to an altitude higher than the takeoff point's altitude?
• First to soar a hang glider for more than one minute, 10 minutes, one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, five hours, six hours, seven hours, 8 hours, etc
• First to fly hang glider released from hot-air balloon.
• First to fly hang glider released from human-powered airship
• First to fly a hang glider released from a set of toy-like small balloons.
• First to fly a hang glider having 3-axis controls without depending on shifting pilot mass for control.
• First to tow a stiffened Rogallo wing manned behind a ground vehicle?
• First to tow a stiffened Rogallo wing manned kite behind a powered airplane?
• First to tow a stiffened Rogallo wing manned kite behind a motorboat; it was at least done in 1962. By whom and were there others?
• First to tow a stiffened Rogallo wing manned kite behind a motor boat using water-ski on pilot's feet? Was it Mike Burns? Send in your answers. Or was it someone in Florida at Cypress Gardens waterways? Or what?
• First to deliberately use a hang glider for dropping a passenger into paragliding flight while primary pilot continues with first craft.
• First three-person foot-launched hang glider flight.
• First to fly a hang glider in the city limits of _________________(city) !!!!!!!
• First three-person hang glider where pilots are situated: one at each wing tip, once centered.
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• What is happening in the countries that are not members of FAI. More nations are not members than are members.

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• http://www.a-i-r.de/         English: http://www.a-i-r.de/pages-e/f_ae_01.htm
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• http://www.ellenvilleny.org/landingzone.htm
• http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/08/news/californian/1707191351.txt  Dispute
• http://www.hanglide.com/  Lookout Mountain
• ozreport.com/sites.php

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Do you have your favorite definition for some term used in hang gliding or paragliding or our cousins?         

• hang glider, hang-glider, hangglider, paraglider, kite, kites, wing, parawing, parachute, parafoil,
• hang gliding, paragliding, hang-gliding, para-gliding, hanggliding,
• self-soaring, foot-launch aircraft, microlight, ultralight, pilot-carryable, flike, fliking, sky-surfing,
• NTSS  National Team Selection System  See handbook USHPA.  See: Canada
• NAA National Aeronautic Association
• RogCon    Do you know what that means?
• bivouac
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• Jackman, W.J., Thomas H. Russell, and Octave Chanute . Flying Machines: Construction and Operation  Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
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• Hang Gliding Museum 
• S.D.    
• Nat   
• AlGB   
• Lilienthal Museum
• British Hang Gliding Museum

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Responsible, respectful, trained, practice, receiving oversight, buddies, log, renew, review, journal, rules, regulations, matching equipment to conditions,

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DECEASED:    +John J. Montgomery+   +Percy Sinclair Pilcher+      +Otto Lilienthal+     +Richard Miller+    +Bill_Bennett+   +Jack Lambie+    +Art_Bean+   +John William Dunne+   +Dixon White+   +Bob Lovejoy+   +Steve Daleo+   +Ed Garcia+   +Pat Conniary (or Conniry?)+   +Bill Bennett+   +Waldo_Waterman+   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++

UNKNOWN VITALITY STATUS YET: +Pete_Brock+    +Emil Kissel+   +Bruce Carmichael+   ++  +Jim Hobsen+   +Dick Eipper+  ++  ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++

LIVING:    +BillMoyes+  +Barry Palmer+  +Peter_Birren+    + +      +Roy Haggard+     +Mike Koman+   +Dave Cronk+  +Taras Kiceniuk+   +   +Joanne Faust+   +Joe Faust+   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++  ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++   ++
 

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• Towing       
• Aerotowing
• Self-kiting launching
• Stationary Winch
• Boat Towing
• On-board Motor
• On-board Rocket
• Car-Towing
• Grounded Assistants
• Pilot Stepping/Walking/Running
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• One reserve chute
• Two reserve chutes
• Bat-wing fly out
• Reserve rocket combined
• Explosive Disk after free-fall
• Releasing
• Staying

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• HPAirship : AS1
• Fixed wing:  HPAfw1   
• Orgs:    RASHPAG

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1. Milton Thompson,
2. Bruce Peterson
3. Neil Armstrong from Dryden,
4. Robert Champine from Langley
5. Gus Grissom, astronaut,
6. North American test pilot Charles Hetzel

Special research call: Mike Koman built a fixed-wing hang glider of double surface and with taper. David Cronk and Pat Conniry (spell)(RIP) and Mike Koman flew it; it had   "nice glide angle" says Koman. Russell Valderain (spell) had some photographs. A guy in Pennsylvania may have some photographs as the wing was largely built in a garage in Pennsylvania. The flights were partly in California. Any information on this historical wing of the 1970s early, please send.   EnterData  + 

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