[JoeF]

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http://energykitesystems.net/WHGA/paten ... 1918A1.pdf

[JoeF]

A note is pending approval on a public site. I entered and signed:

In 1908 W. Simon, member of a Breslau gliding club, had a foot-launch hang glider of battened flexible wing that featured the triangle control frame, hung pilot and hand grasp of the basebar of the control frame. No global mechanical invention for the Aussie tinkerer who showed in 1963, some 55 years after W. Simon. Then in 1961 John Worth of Ryan-NASA circle fully used the triangle control frame on the Stiffened-frame Rogallo Flexible Wing; John Worth used many versions, sometimes with one such frame, sometimes with two such frames, and sometimes just with lines and no frame. Again much prior to the follower JD who simply found himself in the prior-art flow; thus no mechanical global invention for the JD ski kite fellow.

Let's see if they approve of the note. Hanging arrangement used by the JD fellow as not "invented" by over-claiming GH-JD-KdR clique that resulted in an FAI wrong-stating fiasco a few years ago.

[JoeF]

Coloring was added by me to the clip from the Whitehead patent:

[JoeF]

Young 13 yr old Tony Prentice in 1960 had his first hang glider with the red lines as flexible rope, not rigid tubes. The drawing is to be interpreted carefully to respect such.

[JoeF]

[JoeF]

April 1963 hanging arrangement by Mike Burns

http://www.energykitesystems.net/hgh/MBHGS/index.html

[JoeF]

No basebar. Two parallel down tubes. Harness hung from lines to wing.
"My Wing"


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[JoeF]

Woopy arena

[JoeF]

In Australia hang gliding history in apparently pre-1929, the triangle control frame twice present in a tandem-wing hang glider:

The only pre-1929 club in operation was the Air Scouts of Australia at Loxton in the Riverland region of SA. This group was founded by Carl Hoffman, based on the German youth movement.
They built and trained on a youth glider - a rigid framed tandem-wing hang-glider. One of their two machines has survived and is in the S.A. Gliding History Trust collection.

Same source page which visit and credit are two photos:
http://www.aus-soaring.on.net/glidingsa ... t75_1b.jpg
and
http://www.aus-soaring.on.net/glidingsa ... t75_2b.jpg

I do not know the provenance of those two photos.