[JoeF]

High Hats

"High hats" are invited to be explored with an eye to niche hang gliding uses.

A high hat is some sort of device set high over a main first wing. Play.

Starters:
Explore kingposts (one or several).
Explore upper wing or wings (biplane, triplane, etc.).
Explore aerodynamic control surfaces above the main wing.
Explore cameras and cams set above the main wing.
Explore feeds of vision from a cam above the main wing going to the pilot's view.
Explore rescue parachutes set in holders above the main wing.
Explore examples in the literature of aviation.
Explore flags, noise makers, antennae, wind-energy devices, loudspeakers, horns, lights,
Note: "hi-hat" or "high hat" or "high hats" or "hi hat" and other terms might apply to the adventure.

Just aside: Cymbal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-hat

High hats
... a text figure to explore and organize some possibilities in hang gliding
• http://energykitesystems.net/HighHats/W ... inimum.jpg
•US Patent 4247060 Mentioned in Dan Poynter book: The parachute manual: a technical treatise on aerodynamic decelerators by Dan Poynter
•High hats at OZ Report
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogynUKPYYF4
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flphg/message/27959
•Helmets
•Attitude recovery device
•Emergency parachute
•Tandem hangglider pilots.
•Hang glider as the higher hat to the helmet of the hang glider pilot
•Pitch-control device
•Camera mount above wing
•Tumble-stop device
•Acrobatic double TCF
•X-framing for various purposes
•Advertising
•Signal student is flying
•Flag holder
•Upper streamer
•Antenna
•Gyroglider
•Double coaxial winged gyroglider
•Hang glider wing as high hat to the aeronaut extreme
•Ballistic parachute deployed above hang glider
•The upper wings of triplane hang gliders and quadraplane hang gliders
•Biplane hang gliders with the upper wing as the high hat for the lower wing
•The hats worn by early aeronauts with the high esteem riding with being a pilot.
•... (see the threads that are covering the "high hats" textual categorical metaphor.)
•MORE IS INVITED: Send your high hat item to the editor.

See a Wright "high hat" session: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... BySide.jpg

[JoeF]

Some high hats on this HG

[JoeF]

IMAGE SET TEASING: http://tinyurl.com/ELYTROPLAN
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The 'Little Plane' Made By Vicomte De Rouge On December 19, 1931
One image source HERE
This seems to feature a tailless craft with a high hat (my term).
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Consider: Flying Magazine Mar 1932, page 166. "Uses elevated vane for stabilizer" HERE=GOOD

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"Something New For Flying"

Below, Vicomte de Rouge, a French engineer and inventor, seated in his strange tailless plane. Opening the hexagonal control on the mast directs the plane upward and closing it guides it down. The rudders on the wing tips are used to steer the queer craft.

Related: 1931 Press Photo Rene Bergerioux, Vicomte Charles De Rouge, Tailless Plane
The inventor calls the the plane the "ElectroPlan Sisma"
But I read from photo: The art on the wing-tip vertical fin: ELYTROPLAN

M. de Rouge
tailless
"The main stabilizing surface is located on a high mast, several feet above the tops of the wings, the mast being held in place by a system of guy wires."

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Seems he first did a tailless and then later a tailed item. Not sure of timelines.
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Vicomte de Rouge: Control Vane

Popular Science, April, 1934, page 52. HERE This is showing a tailed aircraft with a high hat (my term).
"Vanes On Mast Keep Glider Level"

Successful in its first test flights, a glider with an unconventional stabilizing device has been introduced by a French inventor. The stabilizer, carried on a mast above the wing, is used to correct any tendency to pitch forward or sideslip in flight. Its two hinged vanes are so wired that they may be folded flat or spread sideways by a control in the hands of the pilot, and thus stabilize the plane.

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Some of my personal thoughts on "high hats"
1. The very mast ---and mast only--- might be a streamline teardrop of two halves that butterfly open when needed.
2. Double kingposting featuring tumblewing between the two tops of the kingposts.
3. Or between two kingposts have a streamlined airfoil that butterfly opens when wanted.
4. Or between two kingposts have an airfoil that can be AoA controlled by hang glider pilot.
5. Inside the upper high hat might also be a system parachute for rescue use.

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http://forum.aviation-ancienne.fr/t7239 ... lytroplans

Very interesting collection: http://www.nuricom.de/

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Not sure yet what this says:

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[JoeF]

Minimal "high-hat" of a high bar traverse to the wind of flight.
Percy Pilcher's 1897 circa high hat was held by a set of two kingposts.
One may see his high hat as a base for further high hatting structures.

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