Kite Strings

Whitehead not only concerned himself with the battened flexible-wing bi-lobe hang glider with its hung pilot, but he explored a triplane kite hang glider where the pilot is apparently using a kite string set of one or two lines to a between-the-legs small seat or again the tether-set of two lines to...

Tad Eareckson wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1qe-XW_bR8

The world of Gustav Weißkopf had a non-empty interface with HG kite strings. Gustav Whitehead . Find both spellings: Gustav and Gustave . Part of the subject space is addressed at the post: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kitepatents/message/686 where one sees the pilot as resistive payload connected ...

Matter in the following thread is joined to this present "HG kite-strings' history notes" topic thread:

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This topic addresses the "kite" strings of kite hang gliders and its history. A kite may be seen as consisting of three parts: wing set, tether set between wingset and resistive part, and the resistive part. A kite hang glider is a kite system with its wing set, tether set between wing and...

Link to the past: Notice how this A-frame base bar is "empty" as it is mechanically supplied by the compressive member between the two kingposts; such left the running space fully open between the two wheeled A-frame side members. Later, in at least 1908 in Breslau hang glider, the basebar...

Link to the past in FLIGHT weekly (publication of the The Automotor Journal company) of first decade of 1900s: Shown clips are from the weekly. http://www.energykitesystems.net/TCF/FlightFirstVolSantosDumontDemoiselle.gif http://www.energykitesystems.net/TCF/FlightVol1N2contfromNo1sketchlegend.gif S...

Link to past: In some of Santos-Dumont's versions of his Demoiselle one may notice seat is slung tensionally behind the A-frame. He used some aerodynamic controls over the most simple Breslau A-frame of 1908 (that is our 2012 contemporary situation frequently). He rolled in for landings under power ...

Link to the past: After the cable-stayed triangle control frame -- A-frame -- for foot-launched hang gliders was already in use for sure by 1908 in a gliding club in Breslau with pilot hung from keel behind the A-frame, a reader of FLIGHT in 1910 queries about advancing a similar system by using the...

Link to the past:

Thomas Walker knew about moving the pilot's weight about to change the gliding dynamic.
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