[JoeF]

Some additional motifivation:
Watch for the sharp gouge stops:

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[JoeF]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skydiver-aims- ... 21624.html

He did a safe splatting.
How does one celebrate Otto with a wingsuit? Ask stuntman Gary Connery, 42.
The old cardboard box scheme!

[JoeF]

Gary Connery wore a torus or donut-like neck-filler brace. Such would help save him from having the head mass be whipped too easily.

[JoeF]

Gary Connery on Otto Lilienthal's birthday.

[JoeF]

Exit view of the neck-cavity-head-bracing arrangement:

Clip from


His item may have been custom made. It appears to me not airbag, but fact is not known.
Then perhaps related or not:
http://www.helite.com/ (Link: thanks to David Williamson.) airbag clothing, etc

[JoeF]

Put body in tension when crashing head first (somewhat like the bungee-jump body tensioning when hung by feet; but consider a design that snugs feet, legs, hip ... in order to let torso and neck and head go into tension. Avoid compressing the head and neck. There are limits to such mitigation. The helmet would be integrated into firm longitudinal beams designed to take the compression while the body "hangs" from the far end (away from headfirst impact zone.
I need a test pilot willing to be droped head first from 1m, then 2 m, then 3 m, etc. until we reach the limits of the devices; then we will need a follow-on test pilot to take the open opportunity. The injuries can be tensional rip of tendon insertions, snapped tendons; snugging the body would be important; using some snug hold on the shoulder may be important. Such suits and device might already be developed by those being shot out of cannons or head-first sled riders, etc. Open for ideas here.


Why have a helmet that sits on the head while such adds mass to the head for advancing whiplash and not preventing compression of the neck. Rather, consider having helmet that tenses the body and tends to avoid compression of the head and neck. Still have the neck-cavity-fill torus. And in the gap G still have some foam that is giving; pure air gap is discouraged by me at this point in this unfinished designing moment.

From what I can see, my guess is that Gary Connery DID NOT employ the present idea of body tensioning via the above stated scheme.

[Bob Kuczewski]

Hi Joe,

I may have a few days available next week, and I can make my Falcon 195 available for some "Safe Splat" prototyping. I'm thinking the safest place to practice would be at Dockweiler, and either of us can check with Joe to see if that's OK. We can also just have some fun flying.   

Do you have any days that are particularly good?

[JoeF]

Thanks, BobK, for the invitation! ... will PM.
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Over-water ski kiting history note regarding those who would Safe-Splat in water: (bold added)

In John Dickenson's letter to Rogallo on 24th November 1964, he writes "…when I saw a picture of the Ryan research aircraft, which was illustrated in the booklet you sent me, I then endeveoured to adapt this wing shape to lift a water skier…"
The booklet can be found here :- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Lo ... =AD0408772 see page 208.

That Ryan research aircraft was framed flex-wing, not the unairframed canopy-only item that 50 years later storyteller would like to substitute! And just wonder what else JD then also saw that brought on severe change from the first kites to what ended to be nearly for the wing as the wings seen in Paresev and other Ryan framed flex-wings and ....as was already flying in Australia under Mike Burns; ...even to the extent of final use of same angles and part names and structural elements!

Kiting behind a boat with the water as part of the Safe-Splat system permitted the standard use of a ski on feet for part of the Safe-Splat arrangement (many in the 1950s indeed used aqua-kiting ski-on-feet to mitigate the re-watering "landing" in the aqua-kiting. Sliding floats were also used. In 1962 Mike Burns with a NASA-Rogallo-based wing in aqua-kiting format in the Burns kite-glider Ski Plane, sliding pontoon flotation devices were part of the Safe-Splat situation. JD's wrong late memory does not remove the fact of his 1964 November specific reference to the airframed Ryan flex-wing. And in similar light, we await for the JD to fully explore his being imbued with the Bensen triangle control frame with pilot hung behind that A-frame (from 1954 circa forward Bensen world-around informed of pendulum weight-shift behind airframe sticks; JD was embedded in Bensen gyro-kite-glider before JD got into "adapt" mode over the airframed Ryan research aircraft. Burns, who very advanced the flex-wing kite glider in Australia even before JD started on the JD kite-glider... was the maker of the production kite-gliders of JD. Safe-Splatting the kite on water was the deal in. But water can be hard in many types of mishaps, even fatal. Towing a kite with man or woman aboard begs for very much care over safety-critical matters.

[JoeF]

Page 208.
But the WHOLE 486 pages of the booklet had other matter too that affected matters! If one has time and interest, the entire booklet may be an adventure.

Here the Safe-Splat has several dimensions:
1. Wheels
2. Payload frame for purpose
3. Image and tech for WING that invites GH-JD splatting overclaims redaction retrodiction
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Guess what was on page 205 ??? ... also available for "adapt" action
http://www.energykitesystems.net/0/KITE ... 408772.jpg

And page 209: http://www.energykitesystems.net/0/KITE ... 408772.jpg


tags: ADO408772 Retardation and recovery
Proceedings of Retardation and Recovery Symposium
Tecnical Documentary Report No. ASD-TDR-63-329 of May 1963

[JoeF]

http://www.streetflyer.info/
Dr. Carsten Mehring

There even exists a version featuring rubber roll-up wings familiar from the Goodyear Rubber plane of the 1950’s. Of course, in that case, transition from running to flying will become a reality, that is if you don’t get caught in the pusher-type aft mounted prop.

=============================In thread is one photo. But here above is the site on the device.

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See his http://www.exoride.com/


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