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Multi-decker Hang Gliders of three or more decks

Postby JoeF » Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:09 am

Multi-Decker Hang Gliders of three or more decks
Step glider ... three steps, four steps, five steps or more ...

We leave the biplane hang glider to other topic threads as it has had the most attention of multi-deck hang gliders.

https://matthewbsellers.com/index2.php
and
https://historylink101.com/bw/e_plane/e ... 458_e3.jpg
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Four decker video:

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Whitehead three-decker
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Larry Hall
Quadruplane hang glider
https://www.delta-club-82.com/bible/doc ... _id879.pdf
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Triplane of Herring in 1896 circa ...
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Did Cayley have a triplane hang glider or not?
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To be studied:
https://news.coventrysociety.org.uk/201 ... -midlands/
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Chanute 1902 Triplane ???
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See some note:
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/Air ... lider.html
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http://www.gustave-whitehead.com/histor ... d-critics/
Triplane hang glider
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Re: Multi-decker Hang Gliders of three or more decks

Postby Craig Muhonen » Fri Oct 21, 2022 6:46 pm

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Just for fun.
A new top and bottom HG wing, or a sail?

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Sometimes you gotta' push the stick forward while you're lookn' at the ground
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Re: Multi-decker Hang Gliders of three or more decks

Postby JoeF » Fri Oct 21, 2022 7:34 pm

Carmichael's wing (one of my first flights was in his jib-sailed wing while I was being informed by Richard Miller and Bruce Carmichael near Bruce's home) The wing was featured by the Los Angeles Times, front cover, May 24, 1971, flown by Bruce's son, Doug Carmichael.
http://privitt.com/mydocs/LA_Times_5_24 ... t_Page.pdf
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https://seaindependent.com/yacht/sailin ... il-cutter/
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