Kite Strings

Your pilot line at United States Hang Gliding Rating System http://www.ushgrs.org
shows H4

Noted also in USHawks:
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=867&p=23866

http://USHGRS.org

Let USHGRS possibly file your HG ratings and special skills.
U.S. only.
United States Hang Gliding Rating System
independent of
clubs, corporations, associations, schools, instructors, businesses
to fulfill self-regulation per FAR 103
for recreational hang gliding in the U.S

Originally Posted - 2017/10/26 17:17:26 UTC --- Oct. 27, 2017, from my email concerning a possible future for Dockweiler to help break USHPA's odd monopolistic control of public-land flying sites: Frank, Bob, and I are in the process of detailing a " Two-Distinct-Sites Solution " (TDSS) pr...

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Michael Sheridan

Top-drawer best wishes to you, Tad, in 2017.

The following is a first disclosure of a novel way to power-kite launch hang gliders or other aircraft: http://ozreport.com/forum/files/ppk001_118.png http://ozreport.com/forum/download/file.php?id=492 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52072614956_ae6c0e5fc0_o.png http://ozreport.com/forum/files/p...

I've been working on a massive dissection of this video (and going blind) for the past couple days - around 170 stills and as full a transcript as possible. I'm about ninety or more percent on this guy's side. No significant criticisms regarding safety whatsoever. Tad, It will be interesting what y...

A system full of kite strings: OWW AWES Applied to HG Launching One-Way Wings Airborne Wind Energy System -- method being explored-- The following introduces a novel family of tethered-airfoil kite-system AWES that use loop tethers (one or more) and a series of wings that detach at the far downwind ...

A manifesto has been stated by a young hang glider pilot. He wants EnergyKiteSystems not to host Tad's historical documents. Replies and essays are invited.
http://www.energykitesystems.net/Lift/hgh/TadEareckson/index.html

Lift,
JoeF

A kite system's "resistive set" or anchor may be seen as a "wing" itself. Whether the resistive set has members on the ground or in the air or in the soil, the objects or members of the resistive set have their own L/D characteristics as they "move" or "fly" i...

Pilot's tendons and/or ligaments are the HG's "kite strings" in some versions of kite hang gliders. Chanute insisted that the pilot not be tied into the wing; he wanted easy exit. Times have changed. But hanging from armpits or from ligaments of shoulder, the "kite strings" are i...