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Why Can't We Get A Handle On This Safety Thing?
by Mike Meier

http://www.willswing.com/articles/Article.asp?reqArticleName=HandleOnSafety

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Wills Wing and Mike have done a lot of good things for hang gliding with the HGMA and glider design, I'm personally indebted to Mike for a lot of help over the phone, and the "Safety Thing" article is good as far as making the point that 99.9% sucks in this game - but beyond that it accomplishes nothing.

There are a lot of high bang for buck messages, changes, and fixes we can deliver and telling people that they really need to learn to nail their flare timing ain't one of them.

I have a pretty extensive response to that article up at:
http://www.kitestrings.org/post417.html#p417

Link to a meditation over a Herring hang glider:

He was not alone in having the A-frame apex sector go up beyond the wing plane to serve directly as kingpost while having the side tubes play as two rigging queenposts. Notice the enhanced flex wing hang glider with its left lobe and its right lobe. Notice the pilot is behind the A-frame. What year was this?

Link to the past:

http://www.century-of-flight.net/new%20site/images17/47.gif

Mulling just the skyview for a possible direction of framing for a limited-scene hang glider using carbon-fiber tactics ... ; but without the motor or cabin...
Felix du Temple

Link to the past:

Thomas Walker knew about moving the pilot's weight about to change the gliding dynamic.
http://www.century-of-flight.net/new%20site/images17/70.gif

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 pilot's swinging lateral action to operate wing-tip controls. The editor of FLIGHT remarked that the method of control was already old matter.

The remark of pendulum method (known already for hundred years and more) as "often disappointing" certainly leaves open the space of maybe sometimes not disappointing. Indeed much of our hang gliding using the method damping the pendulum with A-frame touches, pushes, pulls, changes ... is not disappointing.

Notice in third post above about Herring: Herring had a left and right surface that was part of a control system; the reader may or may not have known about Otto Lilienthal and Herring using a left and right control surface in experiments.