[JoeF]

Lawrence Hargrave and his intersection with hang gliding
is the topic suggested hereon and following. Invited are facts and analyses. Look at what he did and wrote. Look at his influences on others that had resulted in effects in the world of hang gliding. Perhaps first gather his history while looking for flows that affected and may still be affecting hang gliding.

Kindly specify what it is you cannot quite understand and I will do my best to explain. Law. Hargrave

Beginning:

http://www.kites.org/aka/hargrave/hargrave.html "The Hargrave Files"
that holds matters that ma

Soaring Machines By L. Hargrave. Read before the Royal Society of New South Wales, November 2, 1898
Care for the Hargrave definitions that seem a bit strange from word usage today.

We seek more clear images. The following are used in the article linked above:

[JoeF]

Fertile page: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imagese ... -hargrave/
How much influence did Hargrave have into the Chanute hang glider world?
In what ways did Hargrave affect Lilienthal brothers for hang gliding pursuits?

[JoeF]

[ ] What might be the trace to shown
from Hargrave?
Power-off: gliding.
Voison

[JoeF]

Interesting Hargrave insights:

http://www.keepitsoaring.com/LKSC/index.php/about/about-soaring?id=97
Short clip from the site:

As with any new technical endeavour, there were a lot of dreamers, cranks and loonies as well as entrepreneurs and engineers involved in the development of flight. And some of these lived south of the Equator.

Lawrence Hargrave was there at the birth of flight and can lay claim to almost all of the epithets above.

[JoeF]

Add a link on Lawrence Hargrave:
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/hargrave.html

And his airframed uninhabited hang gliders are being topic of discussion in UAHGs topic thread.

[JoeF]

Link: http://kitehistory.com/miscellaneous/hargrave.htm

http://www.drachen.org

http://kitehistory.com/

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/timeline0.html

http://www.kites.org/aka/hargrave/hargrave.html

http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu ... tents.html

[JoeF]

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/rs_soaring.html
Soaring Birds are Dependent on Wave-Power
by L. Hargrave
1899

[Bill Cummings]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lawrence+Hargrave

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