Talk:Hang glider

Discussion is invited on proposed article sections

 * Claims for hang gliders in patents
 * Unmanned hang gliders
 * Sport hang glider types
 * Spar types for hang gliders
 * Sail materials for hang gliders
 * Certification of human-piloted hang gliders
 * Failure modes of sport sticky airframed hang gliders
 * Failure modes of canopy airframed paragliders
 * Hobby-built hang gliders
 * Historic hang gliders:
 * The 15 hang gliders of Otto Lilienthal
 * The Percy Pilcher hang gliders
 * The Octave Chanute hang gliders
 * The John Joseph Montgomery hang gliders
 * The hang gliders of Bereck Beach
 * The Jan Lavezzari hang gliders
 * The Spratt hang glider
 * The Igor Bensen rotary-wing hang gliders
 * The Horton Brothers hang gliders
 * The Francis M. Rogallo hang gliders
 * The Tony Prentice 1960 hang glider
 * The John Worth unmanned Rogallo wing paraglider hang gliders
 * The Paresev paragliders
 * The Gemini Project paragliders
 * The Barry Hill Palmer hang gliders
 * The Mike Burns hang gliders
 * The John W. Dickenson ski-kite hang gliders
 * The Moyes hang gliders
 * The Bill Bennett hang gliders
 * The Conduit Condor by Richard Miller
 * The Frank Colver Sailwing hang glider
 * The Jack Lambie Hang Loose
 * The Kilbo-Kite hang glider and its plan
 * The Richard Miller and Bruce Carmichael jib-sailed aluminum framed hang glider
 * The Dial Soap TV-commercial hang glider
 * The Porta-Wing hang glider by Eddie Paul
 * The hang gliders of gliding clubs up to 1920

The pilot holding and/or tethering:
 * The pre-1910 cable-stayed triangle control frame for hang gliders
 * The arm-pit hold structures
 * The hung-seat structures
 * The forearm-hold structures
 * Pilot harnesses
 * Tethers to hold pilot/payload

Joefaust (talk) 22:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Payloads of hang gliders
 * Biplane rigid hang gliders
 * Multi-canopy paragliders
 * Short single-tether sticky-airframed hang gliders
 * Long-tether canopy paragliders (proper subset of hang gliders)
 * Wing airfoils for hang gliders


 * This all belongs at Hang gliding and History of hang gliding and most of it is already there. - Ahunt (talk) 23:23, 6 October 2011 (UTC)