[JoeF]

Year 1962 January-through-December Hang Gliding
If a hang gliding related matter happened in 1962, please tell and reference. Technology, launching, patents, makes, flights, essays, books, magazines, television, E.A.A., Flight, Soaring, magazines, hobbies, sport, engineering, etc.
What was extant for hang gliding in 1962?
Who lived in 1962 who had hang gliding "under their belt already" ?
What mechanical technology was extant for hang gliding in 1962?
What was shown on television about hang gliding in 1962?
What images were present in the world that did show matter important to hang gliding in 1962.
Notice that ALL former history recorded about hang gliding WAS extant present matter in 1962.
Solid invention rarely occurs, but what was invented in 1962 that was hang glider matter? Filing date in 1962 usually are only possible because actual work had been done on the involved matters before the filing date; so a second phase of understanding concerns the backstory to a filing date for a claim; the backstory occurs in 1962 and often earlier, but the earlier had living memory within 1962; tell such stories as possible. Notice, that a filing date in January of 1963 will most probably lead a researcher to backstory that HAPPENED in 1962.

Ask questions and answer the questions.
For instance, was there on a Rogallo-wing four-boomed hang glider a cable-stayed triangle control frame in 1962? Yes: John Worth, for one. Bring forward references about the works of John Worth. Strut-stayed control frame for hang glider shown on national television with some international audience? Yes; James Hobson. Bring forward the references about the television show and date of showing. World-around announcement with image of foot-launched Rogallo-wing Hang Glider by Experimental Aircraft Association? Yes: James Hobson; show image and show date of the editor's text as published. What about 1962 Mike Burns? And many more in 1962. What was Volmer Jensen in 1962? What did Richard Miller do in 1962?

Notice that ALL former patents of all nations that had published notes by December 31, 1962, were, in fact, available to the world in 1962; yes ALL formers! So, 1962 was fat with fact. Have fun disclosing how robust was 1962.

Notice that all preserved published matter about hang gliding was available to someone for potential reference. Just what feeds builders' minds is difficult to know. Just how minds are influenced by priorly achieved arts is very hard to know. What we can know is that shared published arts were shared. Have fun knowing what was available to affect builders' minds.

Who was living in 1962 who had done hang gliding in their lives; they would have had 1962 memory of their hang gliding; such living memory was active in 1962? What in model aviation was understood as matter affecting vicarious hang gliding, indeed in potential builds... and therefore KNOWN for mechanical state of the arts? Honor what was known in 1962.

Have fun in the 1962 hang gliding world.
Those arriving to act and think in post-1962 had 1962 package as gift. Knowing well the huge hang gliding story of 1962 would be a fitting way to get to know post-1962 matters. Neglecting the rich 1962 package while trying to know post-1962 HG matters would be a super-weak strategy. Rather, know any post-1962 matter by knowing well all feed flows from the 1962 package.

[Rick Masters]

"FRC Paraglider," NASA Flight Research Center X-PRESS, Edwards, California, Vol 4, Issue 19, 14 Sep 1962, page 1,4, as archived by National Air & Space Museum, NASM 2160, 0001, 0004.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/329602main_ECN-438_full.jpg

[JoeF]

There were many flows of hang gliding matter in January of 1962.

Rick brought forward a neat image and reference relating to one of the significant flows, that is, the flow at Dryden's Flight Research Center (now Armstrong Flight Research Center, I believe; and not to forget Neil Armstrong ... first man on Moon AND who did fly the NASA four-boomed Rogallo hang glider) over the hang glider then called "Paraglider" in several NASA circles.

But this immediate note is to give something for JANUARY of 1962 and first days of February 1962 at FRC. Take note that "Paraglider" in those FRC circle meant the wing and the payload structure that held the pilot; the wing had already been several years in exploration by NASA's Francis Rogallo and others in those circles. The January 1962 activity from a decision in December of 1961 by Paul Bikle (soaring buff himself, see his full Soaring Society of America background). Rogallo and John Worth and others had already explored various means of using the four-boom bi-conical wing (we will need to disclose the solid 1962 presence of such known arts) in relation to payloads and hanging pilots; we will see how John Worth had the cable-stayed triangle control frame. But the FRC January 1962 arrangement chose to very well protect the landing on concrete of their prized astronauts-in-training.

Quote from book On the frontier: flight research at Dryden, 1946-1981, page 139:

"The best way to acquire ... experience, of course, was by building and flying a Parawing. Two who actively favored such an approach were center research pilots Neil Armstrong and Milt Thompson. they approached Paul Bikle, who liked the idea, but recognized that both pilots had heavy Dyna-Soar commitments; FRC could not spare their services elsewhere, even to a project as interesting as the proposed Parawing. Instead, Bikle called in a group of center engineers under the direction of Charles Richards, a team composed of Richard Klein, Vic Horton, Gary Layton, and Joe Wilson. Bilke's instructions were characteristically short and to the point: build a single-seat Paraglider and *do it quick and cheap.' All this took place just before Christmas 1961. The team, now totaling nine engineers and technicians, set to work on this *Paraglider Research Vehicle,' conveniently abbreviated Paresev. Seven weeks later, after expending $4280 on construction and materials, the team rolled out the Paresev I. It resembled a grown-up tricycle, with a rudimentary seat, an angled tripod mast, and perched on top of the mast, a 14-square-meter Rogallo-type parawing. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Paresev

NOTICE CAREFULLY: The spending was not just for the wing -parawing- : the standard four-boom item that NASA let Rogallo further explore professionally within NASA following decades of his hobby research on the wing sector, but for the wheeled pilot-holding payload hung beneath the wing. My guess from the parts involved, that most of the funds were spent on the parts protecting the hold of the pilot ... valuable payloads, indeed. Someone might find the costing sheet for that January 1962 build effort ... just how that $4,280. was spent. Neil Armstrong is welcome as an honorary U.S. Hawk, in my tally, as he co-initiated the Dryden FRC hang glider project, as well as hang glided at least one of the serveral versions of the FRC's hang glider in project PARESEV. It is cool to have Neil in our hang gliding community--- first man on the Moon, approximately 7 years after spirited the start of the FRC hang glider flight-training program.

It would be interesting to know the coins spent for the wing and the coins spent for the pilot-holding payload items. The hang glider with its hung pilots were to be towed up for launching into hang gliding flight.

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Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012]

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[Rick Masters]

Here's the entire book in .pdf, courtesy of you taxpayers.

On the Frontier
Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981
by Richard P. Hallion
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4303.pdf

Thanks, Joe. A fantastic historical resource. And I like the price.     

[JoeF]

Click at each image to disclose full image:

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Notice that the stowing and in-space or near-space deploying of the hang glider paraglider was a huge challenge,
not the merits of the wing in open hang glider format. The hang gliding could occur just fine, but the mechanicals of
getting the hang glider paraglider for tight stowed format to full free-flight format were apparently not competing
well enough or fast enough with well-tried canopy parachute technology for bringing to ground cherished payloads
and astronauts.

Notice the multi-site and multi-company indicators for 1961 matters surrounding the parawing, paraglider (hang glider) ..
Each of those other sites and teams and companies had 1961 significant involvement with the subject; their works in their teams
formed package for 1961 that became more robust package for the 1962 scene. It will be shown that scores of people were
thinking about the hang glider paraglider. Those in those teams living and working in 1962 were part of the larger hang glider world
in their own ways, interests, ideas, patents, discussions, memos; the full body of related information in 1962 in the large radiance of NASA and
associating companies forms quite a large body of information to study.

It could be fun and informative to see the files of "Charles Richards".

Notice that the upper few posts have not begun to touch the depths of Rogallo's works and John Worth's works, and Marine, Ryan, North American,
and others. The 1962 hang glider flow in the NASA circle sector was not the only sector occurring. There were other flows:
amateur, citizen commercial, model, patent, ... Anyone is invited to the 1962 party herein.

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Available to those skilled in the hang glider and aviation arts in 1962 was the functional technology disclosed to the world by William Beeson in 1887.
Here is a tease on Beeson that provides foundation for trapeze in hang glider of two lobes in wing's sail:

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My vote is to have William Beeson as an honorary member of the U.S. Hawks. He lived in Montana, USA.

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The world's net hang glider awareness was being deepened all through 1962.
National and international media of several sorts brought hang glider radiance to ever more people.

Bring the 1962 hang glider party up on this deck.

[JoeF]

"Published 1/17/1962"
Notice paucity of battens compared to later versions of the hang glider "paraglider" in the shown January 1962 vehicle.
This must be the first deal that costed $4280 as told in prior post references.
The image is large and of good resolution, so click through to see photo:
https://archive.org/details/329542main_E-7914
Paresev
by NASA

Published 01/17/1962

E-7914 Test pilot Milton Thompson sitting in NASA Flight Research Center-built Paresev 1 Paraglider Research Vehicle on the taxi strip in front of the NASA Flight Research Center in 1962. In this photo the control stick can be seen coming from overhead and hanging in front of the pilot. The control system was a direct link with the wing membrane made of doped Irish linen. By maintaining simplicity during construction, it was possible to make control and configuration changes overnight and, in many instances, in minutes.January 17, 1962 NASA Photo / Read Paresev Project Description


Identifier 329542main_E-7914
Creator NASA
Date 01/17/1962
Filename 329542main_E-7914_full.jpg
Mediatype image
Rights Public Domain
Source http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/mult ... -7914.html
Year 1962

From http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Francis_M._Rogallo :

"NASA registered the Paresev, the first NASA research airplane to be constructed totally *in-house,' with the Federal Aviation Administration on 12 February 1962. Flight testing started immediately"

[JoeF]

At Langley Research Center, another flow on hang glider and toward powered hang glider:
"parawing" "Paraglider"

http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/File:62-631.jpg
Click through; see image. See link there for a giant high resolutions photo.
"Parawing tested in 1962 in the Full-Scale Tunnel"

[JoeF]

The world-around impact of the images in the November 1961 issue of Popular Mechanics could be a study in itself. We will know some significant hang glider facts freshly formed in 1962 that radiated from this major public article being read and seen at the end of 1961 to live on thus certainly in 1962. FULL ARTICLE. Notice that the article continues from its first pages to page 260. Notice the many versions and sites and concerns. And realize that the article affected 1962; more, notice that material for an article in November 1961 was rooted in earlier months and years; reaching those texts and studies form part of the 1962-availability story. The hundreds of people touched by radiance of the hang glider formed a growing hang glider heat in the world, thus Popular Mechanics titles the article in part "Hottest Thing in Aviation." [ I cannot help be recalling that in at least 1908, the world of hang gliding already had the cable-stayed triangle control frame for sport foot-launch hang gliding in W. Simon's good works with him hung from keel behind the control frame in a battened flexible-wing hang glider at an official hang gliding sporting event. The aviation heat in the hang gliding world of 1962 was going to use such extant simple technology; watch for 1962 extant use of the triangle control bar cable stayed and also strut stayed. The party goes on. Have fun. ]

I Flew the Pterodactyl Flex-Wing
Hottest Thing in Aviation
by Lou Everett,
Test Pilot, Ryan Aeronautical Company

To tease the reading of the full article through page 260, here is the closing sentence of the article. Many people responded to the implied call:

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GUESS what happens when a negative is used: THERE WILL BE THOSE who take the command as a dare; they will do what the end of the command holds:
The article had a section near its end titled as here clipped form page 260:

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Ya, sure! Four sticks and sail; hang from it; glide; fly like a bird. People tried DIY Rogallo-wing hang gliders.
Try to keep the world down? Did not work. The hang glider movement continued and grew and blossomed, .... again.
The 1940s and 1950s, and 1960, 1961, and 1962 brought various hang glider flying carpets to the human family. The 1962 scene is part of that wonderful long story. Many did in 1962 build it; and some of them showed their DIY to the world through television, Experimental Aircraft Association, magzines, and newspapers, ... BRING THOSE TO THE 1962 HANG GLIDER PARTY !
James Hobson would be one of many who responded in months following the article.

Much yet to uncover, enough for 100 of us to find and place something into the 1962 party package.

[Rick Masters]

I especially like the artist's drawing of the "paraglider troops" jumping out of the rear cargo door of the transport facing downwind (page 89).
Somehow, a downwind take off in a 150 mph breeze didn't seem a big deal in 1961.    
See page 89, https://books.google.com/books?id=KtwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA85&ots=lhAcS1L_8T&dq=I%20flew%20the%20Pterodactyl&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false

[JoeF]

Cecil E. Craigo
Harry A. James
Leo J. Hand

These three musketeers lived in 1962 with smoothness of having accomplished filing their patent on Mar 17, 1961.
https://www.google.com/patents/US3140842 And just how much work they did toward that March 17, 1961, day in earlier months and years!
With power off: hang glider. They assigned their patent to Ryan Aeronatuical Co. The three were from San Diego, California.
I hold these three in heart as honorary members of the U.S. Hawks.

"the wing being folded when not in use to reduce the required storage space, the airframe structure being pivotally suspended from the wing and control being effected by shifting the aircraft's center of gravity relative to the wing's center of pressure."

In 1962 the patent was available to the world pending grant status which did finally occur.

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is a development of the
principles
described in ...

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These three inventors cited http://www.google.com/patents/US989786 filed in 1910 by two others I hold as honorary members of U.S. Hawks:
Ulysses Grant Lee
William Austin Darrah
both of Brooklyn, New York, USA
I hold these two as honorary members of the U.S. Hawks.
Their flying machine was known in 1961 and 1962 by many of the people working on uses and forms of the Rogallo-wing hang glider and powered hang gliders. Lee and Darrah titled their filed 1910 patent as "Flying-Machine".
Treat yourself with appreciating every word of their patent; savor how much they realized. They seemed to have missed reflex. They were into advanced control surface. They did not want to be constrained just to bi-conical math form, but knew their control methods would serve other formats for the wing. Their drawings were just one format of their realizations; I characterize their flying machine as an anachronistic primary Rogallo glider. Easily the drawings and descriptions just misses Gertrude Rogallo and Francis Rogallo's invention of fully flexible wing; but take the Rogallo discovery and start booming and controlling ... and see some history repeating itself in the NASA circles somewhat---with the difference that Rogallo understood what Lee and Darrah did not: the potential of fully-flexible wing simply bridled to hung anchor falling or fix. All these matters were available in 1962 to many developers. But it would be at least 1908 W. Simon that kept the record for simplicity for hang glider sake with the hung pilot behind cable-stayed triangle control A-frame. All available in 1962 hang glider party.

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Some 1962 and 1961 notes and images are used by Ami in a related article over the Gemini program:
Losing Rogallo from Gemini
By asteitel May 22, 2011. Amy Shira Teitel