Historical Kite Control Systems
- Wright Brothers
- A quad-line two-handled kite control system.
- George A. Spratt triangle control frame
- Triangle control frame for any towed or free-flight kite system .
- Paresev
- A mass-shifting via pulley-routed cables from a control stick while kite pilot hung from the kite from a single tensional point.
- Blue-Hill Observatory
A piano-wire based kite control system.
- Barry Hill Palmer
- Of seven to eight experiments, Barry Hill Palmer found several control systems for foot-launch hang glider in 1960-1962. He finally came upon what George A. Spratt already had found for aviation and any hang glider: triangle control frame or A-frame in front of pilot while pilot hung from a tether either in a seat or harness for various positions; the mechanical arrangement precluded invention in later years for the same. Many others would find the same mechanical arrangement for mass-shifting for Rogallo hang gliders and derivatives; these free-flying manned kites or hang gliders used the wing for the kites from the Fleep or Paresev or derivatives of that branch of stiffened flexible wings.
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