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Niche
Hang Glider Activity
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Super-Modernized Standard
Rogallo Hang Glider
SMSRHG
moving the Charles Richards wing template (stiffened Rogallo wing) with the 1908 cable-stayed triangle control frame into using advanced materials and safety tweaks , yet retaining the four-boom foldability and sharp nose angled airfoil for limited applications. |
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| Fully limp governable ram-air inflated hang gliding founded on the Domina Jalbert mechanical invention. Much of "paragliding" is here, as term is used in 2000s (not 1960-2 where the Charles Richards wing--that mechanically essentially topped the "standard Rogllo hang glider" was called "paraglider" then...So, it will be a point of confusion if a 2008 paragliding pilot came upon the literature of 1961 in NASA. ).. | |||||||||
| Bus hang gliding (BHG). Efficient carry-on-city-bus hang glider packs (framed-controlled sorts) are the coin of people doing bus hang gliding. They ride buses to and from flying sites. | |||||||||
| Pos-inflate PG piPG These wings are string-controlled yet have positively-inflated wings with pressure adjusters. | |||||||||
| Paramontante Pilots specialize in the evolutes of the Paramontante | |||||||||
| Patent parade Gain lift from following, understanding, identifying, mining, etc. the claims made in the world of kite patents, especially how such directly relates to hang gliding (primarily a kite system). | |||||||||
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Foot-launchable powered
glider.
FLPHG
, FLPAircraft, FLPSailplane Power source specializations
are occurring: electric,
electric-solar
,
internal combustion
engine
ICE
, jet and
JetBug
,
power-beaming
, solar-electric from
power-beaming,
laser power-beaming
, etc. Fuel, batteries, ultracapacitors,
remote beamed energy,
etc. are being considered.
Purposes vary: training
hops off flatland, barely
soarable one-lift, returnable
lift-assist units, long-session
soaring sustaining,
landing-choice expansion
and assurance only,
inaccessible launch
solution, foot-launch
race coursing, and more. Some have an eye to the fusion future. Energy densities guide development. Hybrids that derive energy from more than one source are being explored. Add pilot power at different stages is a fun sector of these efforts. Clubs, groups, collaborative efforts, and competitions are being explored. Early pioneers trying compressed air were generally disappointed at the energy density of compressed air. When HG beams (spars, TCF, ribs) resolve to be nearly 100% double-purposed parts (mechanical structure so formed to be at the same time an electrical-charge storage device), then further advances will be made. More: When all exterior surfaces of the HG and its system parts (harness, helmet, sail, etc) are electric-charge makers using ambient light as energy source, then breakthrough performance is envisioned. More: When nanotech materials churn near magic on these solutions, then control, thermal sensing, gust advantaging, and low-mass will bless hang gliding. The opening of millions of launch and landing points is part of the eventual outcome of these efforts. Friendly rooftop to friendly rooftop? Your notes are welcome: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
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| Foot-launchable sailplanes. These craft tend to be heavier than hang glider; and foot-launchable sailplane invite the use of aerodynamic controls. The weight of these will continually be reduced as nanotech materials come into play. | |||||||||
| Fully limp governable Rogallo parawing hang gliders | |||||||||
| Competition cross-country CXC at a meet or via time-termed Internet data transfer. | |||||||||
| Rogallo-winged single surface RWSS modernized beyond the standard Charles Richards wing format | |||||||||
| RW or Rigid Wing hang gliders | |||||||||
| Three-axis aerodynamic surfaces control | |||||||||
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Rotary-wing vertical-axis
HGs
Gyro Hang Glider:
Another copy of towed foot-launched gyro hang glider:. Challenges: pre-rotation, assistant safety, number of blades: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Someday: National gyro hang glider meet? Soaring records for GHGs? |
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Span-wise
rotary-wing
HGs.
(a few types
and arrangement
styles).
Types to distinguish:
This niche sector has very few adherents. Glide ratio is very low, but the low L/D can be significant for specialized hang gliding purposes. The rotating wings challenge designers and users. "Sweet spots" of design and use for recreation hang gliding seems to have evaded experimenters so far. Surrounding this sector: Fan wing, Magnus-effect gliders, Magnus-effect governable parachutes, top-to-back rotating rectangles of slightly S-curved paper, Magnus-effect rotary kites, and more. The elliptical leading edges here can also play; stability and control challenge, and anti-spin is a concern. Landing has its challenges. Related terms: radial-lift propeller, Magnus effect, rotating wing (spanwise), horizontal self-lifting wing, auto-rotation, autorotation, turbines, experimental aircraft, rotary wings, lift, circulation, cyclogiro (1930s NASA), ... |
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| Otto Lilienthal modernized mimics | |||||||||
| Very long span multi-person bunny-slope hang glider s (3 or more persons) | |||||||||
| Recreational cross-country single-flight soaring . Honing many skills are involved here. RXC | |||||||||
| Tail-less biplane hang gliders. Consider Dunne; Espenlaub; Taras Kiceniuk, Jr., UFM, Larry Mauro , John K. Moody . JWD1 i magesJWD2 GE1 | |||||||||
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Replica hang gliders Hang glider meets....homebuilt replica hang gliders only.. There will be groups specializing on just one hang glider. Send your group's link to us for posting here. Others may concentrate on period hang gliders. |
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| Quadraplane hang gliders Four planes. State of the art materials are spurring interest in short-span quadraplane hang gliders. aka: quadruplane | |||||||||
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Joined-wing
hang gliders. See March 2009 issue of Lift . 
Alex
Morillo
is forwarding
join
wing
concepts.
Interested in joined wing hang gliders or ultralights, contact him. |
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Speed gliding SG |
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Ground
skimming
specialists.
Here
practitioners
aim
to stay
in ground
effect
from
beginning
to end
of their
hang
gliding. Various
targets:
Urban
parks,
short
sled
flying,
snow-ski
slope
racing,
morning
nil-wind
special-site
low
and
slow
ground
skimming,
GEG, FGEG, Ground-effect hang gliding, ground-effect gliding. See wiki: Ground-effect gliding |
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| Canard hang gliders | |||||||||
| Snow-ski slope racers. Some love the snow slopes and like racing through the air with touch and goes. | |||||||||
| Aerobatics Mitch McAleer Hang Glider Aerobatics Hang Gliding Aerobatics @ Rob Kells Memorial Fly-In or http://tinyurl.com/aerobaticshangglidingSEVERAL | |||||||||
| Hybrid positive-inflated-bladder-boned-limp hang gliders | |||||||||
| Inflatable hang gliders Here the wing is positively inflated. Some will specialize in tethering pilot only. Some will employ the 1908 Breslau territory gliding club's cable-stayed control frame. | |||||||||
| Biplane hang gliders There are many variations on the biplane theme. Watch for specialists that seem to stay refined over one branch of biplane hang gliders. For example, the Hang Loose replica people are focused on Lambie's Hang Loose and are not paying attention to the Chanute replica biplane. Double-surfaced airfoils may be the focus of one communicating group of hang gliders; others will aim for single-surface airfoils. Some will aim at using tensegrity for trussing. Others: inflatables. Others will be just on Otto Lilienthal replica biplanes. Others will aim for polishing the Boy Mechanics plans. Others will aim to use modern composites to the nth degree. Canard or tail? Zenithal HAT ? Tandem biplanes along Montgomery style? Joined wing? Highly dimorphic? Hybrid man-powered biplane hang glider? Sledding only? Tail-less ala Icarus I, Icarus II ...UFM direction (Dunne or Espenlaub evolutes?) Volmer Jensen 3-axis control 1940s' replicas? And more. Fun sector of old and new .... What will nanotech materials bring to the biplane arena? Wire-less biplane hang gliders? Wire-less and strut-less biplane hang gliders? Biplane limps and semi-limps? | |||||||||
| Horton Brothers inspired pilot-in-wing (PIW) hang gliders (PIWHG) | |||||||||
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Triplane
hang
gliders
There
will
be
flying
meets
just
for
triplane
hang
gliders.
Your notes are welcome: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
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Flatland
long
gliding
hang
gliders.
FLG Here
true
flatland
is
used
for
running
the
wing.
Then
by
skill,
one
gets
longer
and
longer
glides.
Think
of
long
jump
of
Track&Field
athletics.
"I think this would be a very very fun thing for people to do. I could imagine this done on a high school football field. It would be great exercise as well. :)" See also: http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/Ground-effect_gliding Cousin with bicycling. |
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| Zenithal-HAT hang gliders . Here a control surface is zenithally above the main wing; canard or tail is replaced by the HAT or high airfoil "thing". Though Lovejoy's High Tailer was not quite a ZHATHG, such inspired one designer to the ZHAT to replace canard or tail. Near: See "high hats" thread in OZ Report . | |||||||||
| Recreational gliding using purchased hang gliders . Significant attention my manufacturers continues to provide quality certified hang gliders and related gear. | |||||||||
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Microlight
trike
hang
gliding.
Here
a
tricycle
is
used
for
launching
or
landing.
Some
assistive
engine
or
motor
is
used
to
get
to
free-flight
gliding
or
soaring
altitude.
BMAA
There
are
heavies
and
there
are
some
very
low-mass
efforts
here. Trike flying in several species:
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| Cage paragliding See also the 2005 Icare for some ideas. .. | |||||||||
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Hike-up-only
potential-energy
users.
Up-and-downer
athletes
aiming
at
physical
exercise
,
some
aiming
at
meditation
flight,
some
wanting
to
hike
and
then
fly
down...smelling
the
roses
and
studying
ground
insects
on
the
way,
etc.
Many
varieties
here.
Avoids
retrieves,
truck
ups,
etc. "but
I
love
the
idea.
I
think
I
did
about
10
hikes
up
to
the
top
of
"Little
Black"
with
about
10
paragliding
flights
(2
minutes
each)
in
a
single
day
when
I
was
learning.
Furthermore,
hiking
up
a
steep
slope
is
exercise,
while
hiking
down
may
carry
a
greater
risk
of
injury."
Your notes are welcome: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
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| Cross-country fliking. Soar, stop, soar, stop, soar, stop...etc. Various specialties here. Self-kiting, solar-energy recharging for driving motor for secondary launches, etc. | |||||||||
| Replicas: Percy Pilcher, Chanute, Montgomery, Lilienthal, Maxim, Waterman, Breslau territory gliding club HGs, etc . Groups of people with just one replica type in vision. | |||||||||
| Tandem hang gliding . Some specializing in instruction, some in recreational tandem, some in professional stunt tandem, etc. For example, Fred Ballard gets high giving introductory tandem HG flights; he has specialized in this realm. | |||||||||
| Zero-weight hang gliders where the empty weight of the glider is zero. Futurisms hold sealed voided 3-D nano-matrices for "solids" (early precursors: aerogels). But for now we have hydrogen and helium personal blimps. When we add the pilot, then the system is still heavier than air. See differently where the gross all-up flying weight is less than zero. | |||||||||
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Base
hang
gliding.
Special
hobby
of
hang
gliding
from
human-built
structures.
High
inclines,
artificial
slopes,
building
roofs,
bridges,
towers,
urban
nil-wind
precision
short
base
flights,
etc. Tower
jumpers.
Shed
jumpers.
Skyscraper
roof-based
hang
glider
launch
area. Carl
Boenish. Otto
Lilienthal. Your notes are welcome: Editor@UpperWindpower.com See and perhaps post a description of a HG action to be done by using an artificial launch ramp: http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23155 Landfill Hang Gliding (a variation on Base hang gliding) where a landfill in a relatively flat region of the country (or world) is specifically shaped to provide favorable ridge soaring into the prevailing winds. Note that the glider pilots will always (thankfully) be on the upwind side of the stench. |
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| Hang gliders set with kinetic and visual flight simulators. Specialists give an increasing number of people a vicarious hang glider flight experience. Pilots also get training in such simulators. | |||||||||
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Human-power
input
to
hang
glider
flight
system. Here
people
aim
at
using
human
power
in
various
way
in
hang
glider
flight
systems.
One
focus
is
human
effort
to
tow.
Another
is
to
use
human
effort
to
recharge
batteries
or
ultracapacitors
during
fliking or
XOHG
or
pre-flight
pauses.
And
more.
The
succes
of
HPA
continues.
The
advance
toward
soaring
HPA
is
part
of
the
challenge
with
respect
to
hang
soaring.
Daedalus
.
Your notes are welcome: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
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Propellers
in
hang
gliding
Here
people
specialize
in
serving
the
hopes
and
adventures
of
hang
gliders
that
use
propellers
in
some
way. http://www.google.com/patents?id=yb83AAAAEBAJ |
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Cross-ocean
hang
gliding:
XOHG This
realm
is
futuristic
despite
the
various
crossing
of
water
that
have
been
done.
The
challenge
is
cyclic
launching
to
soaring
from
the
water
surface
with
stabilize
gear.
Many
schemes
are
being
considered.
Anne
Quemere
is
paving
some
way
toward
these
matters.
Anne's
effort's
intersection
with
hang
gliding?
Your notes are welcome: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
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Solar-energy-assisted-launch
hang
gliding.
These
people
aim
at
launch
assist
by
converting
the
sun's
radiation
to
drive
a
launch
motor.
Many
varieties
of
specialized
means are
here.
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Competition
hang
gliding
using
purchased
hang
gliders
from
Former
HGMA
Members
or
Current
HGMA
Members
The
HGMA
is
the
second
or
so.
The
first
included
others,
like
Omega
Hang
Gliders..
See: Markowski's Hang Glider's Bible. For example, Davis Straub is a competition hang glider pilot. Competition sport hang gliding via FAI classes. |
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Morphable
wings
have
inroads
to
most
niche
sectors
of
hang
glider
activity.
However,
there
are
those
who
specialize
in
morphing
means.
Variable
billow
and
variable
geometry
are
mechanical
principles
known
in
early
aviation.
But
modern
tactics
and
materials
are
opening
a
host
of
new
opportunities
for
morphing
wings
during
flight.
Your notes are welcome: Editor@UpperWindpower.com |
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Communications
with
cousin
activity
groups: Specialize
in
tracking
and
communicating
with
PWCA,
CIVL,
NACs,
clubs,
associations,
etc. and
with
leaders
of
niche
hang
gliding
activity. Maintain
databases,
glossaries,
archived
copies
of
correspondence,
photographs,
plans,
manuals,
etc. There
is
room
here
for
many
persons
around
the
world. Perhaps
organize
and
spread
the
tasks
among
cooperating
persons.
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| Busable hang gliders and the busable hang gliding culture | |||||||||
| Master "Safe-Splat" tactics, devices, methods. Discuss: HERE. | |||||||||
| Tiny corner: See what young Cromwell Dixon did and consider the tiny niche corner of hang gliding up or down through the air using LTA gases and shaped inflated wings. | |||||||||
Valley
back-and-forth
hang
gliding.
Ravine
back-and-forth
hang
gliding.
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| Wing Running World Wing Running Association | |||||||||
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Negative-weight
hang
gliders
where
the
hang
glider
is
lighter
than
ambient
air.
Glidable
shaped
wings...
Not
shaped
for
gliding
up
or
down,
but
near:
White
Dwarf.
"
So
Bill
and
Reed
moved
the
White
Dwarf
to
Madras,
OR,
assembled
and
inflated
it
Sept.
30,
2000,
and
first
flew
it
Oct. 3
"
le vol du Zeppy 2/2 This is operated mostly at neutral buoyancy and is thus not with any major role of gliding up or gliding down. Its shape is not for the gliding. However, in 1944, Domina Jalbert's patent had flexible wings on a buoyant keel that would give good gliding up or gliding down, depending on the buoyancy set. Water gliders are especially using the principle of changing from positive to negative buoyancy for gliding up or down. Major commercial gliding airships are being proposed. There will be a niche association of recreational users of alternating-buoyancy hang gliders. See: The Gravity Aircraft And then consider hybrid hang glider.
Make
me
fly
More
of
a
non-hang-glider
role
... But
consider
if
shape
and/or
wings
were
applied
for
gliding
up
when
more
buoyant
and
gliding
down
when
net
weight
is
heavier-than-air.
When
role
is
for
gliding
up
or
gliding
down,
then
design
changes.
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| Cable Hang Gliding http://getaway.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=17475 | |||||||||
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Nano
Some
people
are
deciding
to
focus
on
bringing
into
hang
gliding
advances
from
nanotechnology,
nano-machines,
nano-materials. Some
of
our
community
occasionally
visit
this
discipline;
others
are
working
diligently
to
find
how
nano-chemistry,
nano-physics,
and
nano-design
might
bless
hang
glider
flight
systems. For
example,
when
one
finds
"A
carbon
nanotube
is
capable
of
transporting
cargo
and
rotating
like
a
conventional
motor"
in
the
literature,
then
one
might
deeply
search
for
ways
such
matters
might
affect
one
or
more
aspects
of
hang
gliding.
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Hang
glider
test
technician.
Consider
DHV
and
HGMA
.
1933
One day each city will be able to support a hang glider technician. |
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| Urban Short-Flight Hang Gliding | |||||||||
| Ornithopting-Involved Hang Gliders | |||||||||
| Pre-Hang Gliding Winging. Universal winging (UW). | |||||||||
| Aero-tow specialist | |||||||||
| Friends-tow specialists | |||||||||
| Scooter-tow specialists | |||||||||
| Bungee-tow specialists | |||||||||
| Tandem Piloting | |||||||||
| Electric direct-cord launch-assist hang gliding | |||||||||
| Hang gliding communications instructor | |||||||||
| Tether-Pilot-Method Specialist | |||||||||
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Fitness
Flyers
...
Many
niche
scenarios
form
the
panorama.
Keep open the door to the niche hang gliding activity that values hang gliding as fitness activity at various levels; one level is to hug a 50 m high slope that invites say 20 takeoffs, 20 glides, and 20 landings, and 20 carry-ups in a session. Intensity and profundity can be gamed in many ways in such a scenario. Bob Bendetson, well positioned script writer, has about 12,000 such flights off a mere 6 to 7 m slope and claims to enjoy the activity immensely to good personal benefit. A very long list of skills are open for strong mastery in such a scenario. He also stores a second hang glider for his flights in the thermal Sylmar site. |
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| Pilot-in-wing specialist | |||||||||
| Platform for advanced sailmaking techniques | |||||||||
| Urban-trash hang glider . Enthusiasts require that their hang glider is constructed only from ambient urban found trash. | |||||||||
| Education-based hang glider: High school class project. Specialists form lesson plans that involve mathematics, history, materials, safety, low-mass construction principles, physics, weather, aerodynamics, communications, etc. | |||||||||
| Authoring Ever good articles are needed to enrich the many facets of the hang glider universe. Take a topic and explore it to the point where you generate an article that will bless all. There are thousands of hang glider topics needing fresh attention by a caring researcher. | |||||||||
| Mechanical Invention The challenges in the hang glider world invite further mechanical invention . Huge sectors of mechanical invention are yet to be discovered that will bless the hang glider world. | |||||||||
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Ornamental
appearance
design
invention
(distinguish
from
fundamental
mechanical
invention
which
is
very
different).
End products ever need to be polished for appearance. Ornamental design tinkering that uses the mechanical inventions of others is an important hang glider world activity that makes pleasant the various hang gliding activities. For instance, the cable-stayed triangle control frame for hang gliders was mechanically invented at least by 1908 clearly, but probably before. But the ornamental design of belly bars, streamlined bars, particular finish, tweaked sizes, etc. for appearance change are important. Take what was mechanically invented and polish the appearance of the item, subassembly, or full assembly. Recommended: Credit the mechanical inventors that may be involved in the function and principle upon which your ornamentation lives. Notice that active protection of mechanical invention beneath your invented appearance invention could require legal respects before a functioning product of your appearance design could be commercialized. In turn, if you gain a sharp ornamental appearance patent that sells the eye of consumers, then you could prevent an underlying mechanical inventor from using the particular appearance ornament that you have found. Trade in good spirits and win. |
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Hang
glider
sailmaker
Foundational activity! The evolution of hang glider sails is not a done deal. Advances keep showing their heads here. New methods of making sails, new materials, and new functions of the sail keep this activity sector open for innovation and polished skills. Threads that are themselves solar-energy converters are tickling the future of hang gliding. Dynamic soaring via smart gust utilization will be affecting HG sails. Smart nanotech films will be changing hang gliding. Mass production methods continue to evolve as hang gliding becomes a foundation for many practical applications. |
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| Harness designer, maker, repair, custom tailor. Niche HG activity with distinct pilots spells an industry inviting dedicated workers worth their charges. Low-mass functionality? Streamlining? Comfort? Safety? Activity fit? Protection? Materials? Smart materials? Temperature control? Moisture control? Dependability? Inspection? Appearance? Learning use of... ? Teaching use of ...? Dealing? Matching? History of ...? Patents? Emergency procedures? Double-purposing the parts to communications, energy conversion, control? Light? Visibility? Advertising? Colors? Surviving in fliking? XOHG harness systems? | |||||||||
| Porosity control for HG. Research, innovation, experimentation, calculation, materials, triggers, gust-interface, niche uses in HG. | |||||||||
| Platform for generating electricity during soaring session . >> Play a part. | |||||||||
| Thermal visibility. Prediction, site mapping, instruments, historical statistics, timing, measuring, communicating, affect on hang gliding experiences, affect on safety, grading hang gliding sites, effects on traffic, affects on competition, ... (Send in your ideas!) | |||||||||
| Launch-ramp design and construction. Many niche flight activities may well use the services of designers. Flatland to mountain ... Maximizing the assets of a site is a challenge. Funding construction? Maintenance? Management? | |||||||||
| Urbanizing hang gliding. A very long-term activity involves reforming urban environments and hang glider systems so that safe and useful results arrive to society. The neighborhood roof systems, the aerial wires, the charge systems, the various kinds of hang gliding activity, the airspace rules, and more ...form part of the coming future of hang gliding within the urban now-congested environment. Who will work on the challenges here? Experiments? Bringing win-win to all parties. | |||||||||
| Moon-City Hang Gliding. Some people will choose to design hang gliding solutions for use inside Moon City. The low gravity will permit hang glider solutions that differ from earth systems. | |||||||||
| Sport inventing ... find niche corners of hang gliding and make a sport from such. | |||||||||
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| 1800s hang gliders Study, replicate, modernize, display, preserve, circulate in schools, describe, and publish? | |||||||||
| 1900-1920 hang gliders | |||||||||
| 1921-1959 hang gliders | |||||||||
| 1960-1975 hang gliders | |||||||||
| 1976-1999 hang gliders | |||||||||
| 2000-2008 hang gliders | |||||||||
| 2009 hang gliders | |||||||||
| 2010 hang gliders | |||||||||
| Add notes directly to the world's Hang Gliding Training Manual . Tiny note or longer note! | |||||||||
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SPECIAL
APPLICATIONS
OF
HANG
GLIDERS
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Photography Specializations: Stills,
motion,
editing,
master
movies,
history
of
small
and
large
happenings
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| Advertising | |||||||||
| Bird care | |||||||||
| Dream fulfillment for the specially challenged amongst us: blind, aged, youth, | |||||||||
| Education. Exhibition, demonstration, visiting speaker, bridge nations, | |||||||||
| Inspection of hang gliders' condition In what condition is this hang glider? Tracking the shape of a hang glider? Status of flying cables? Sun hours? Challenge of knowing the fatigue status of parts invites creative inspecting. Managing risks. Flight log interpretation. Service persons? Flying cable condition? Unseen places? Corrosion? Wear? Cracks? Tears? Best practices? Monitoring real-time status of safety-critical parts. Checklist fulfillment systems. | |||||||||
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of
developing
secondary
uses
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hang
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gliders: Missing sorts, please send to Lift@HangGliderMagazine.com
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