[JoeF]

Ferdinand Ferber
CAPT. L. F. FERBER
1862-1909
AKA: Ferdinand Ferber
AKA: Monsieur de Rue

To start:

Nice article: http://earlyaviators.com/eferber.htm

Then:
Off the platform and into the air with his own Lilienthal type hang glider. I am not sure he himself is in the wing; someone confirm?

[JoeF]

The image is apparently a Ferber scene, but verification is needed:

http://www.wright-brothers.org/TBR/Hist ... er%20s.jpg

[JoeF]

Related to Ferber:
Hyper-léger

http://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php?code=3824
and
Ferber No. 1 "First glider Ferdinand Ferber, tried in August 1898"

and No. 2, very interesting to me: http://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php?code=3827

[JoeF]

http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29276.htm



http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29109.htm

http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29108.htm

[JoeF]

ARP teased some more attention over Ferber in PM. Thanks, Tony.
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Related:
http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29276.htm
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Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Ferber
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[ ] Study: http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/ferber.html
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Clip for study of No. 4.

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http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/circa-1904-a-ferber-1904-glider-suspended-from-a-system-of-towers-picture-id3305027

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What do we see in No. 4 and No. 5 ?

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It may not be clear whether the photo shows the top or the bottom of the glider.
See other photos and compare structures.

[Rick Masters]

In 1904, Ferber designed and flew a glider with an elevator in front and a fixed horizontal stabilizer in back. The two triangular surfaces at the wingtips are movable rudders.
http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Wright_Story/Showing_the_World/Prize_Patrol/Prize_Patrol.htm
also, if you don't think Ferber was as serious al Lillienthal, see page 7:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJthewrightb.pdf
He killed himself on this thing.
http://www.amazon.com/Magazine-French-Ferdinand-Accident-Airplane/dp/B00DVR1E2C

[JoeF]

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Experiment flown as a kite.
1902.

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This lower collage is from http://www.beuil.com/histoire.htm
There is caption on Ferber near the photo on that page.