gliders

Do hang gliders have a good place to mount them, and then wire them back to a display?

The Proteus was quite a ground-breaker and doesn't look too strange if you've seen a few gliders.

That plane only landed safely because the captain had experience with gliders and knew what to do.

Using compressed air as a structural component is a valid construction technique and could be applied to hang gliders.

Some potential problems of inflatable hang gliders: * Ambient air pressure differences at varying altitudes, temperatures, etc.

I mean, our drones aren't in the shape of men using gliders.

It never passed certification because it's probably not as strong as other hang gliders.

Drones might be new but there's been RC planes and gliders for decades.

Various gliders couldn't control altitude without external assistance (thermals, launch height) but they could theoretically control all 3 axis', mostly through shifting weight distribution.

I'm a bit rusty on the exact aerodynamics of paragliders because I only fly hang gliders, but this is roughly what happens.

I have no experience with hang gliders, but as long as you have rigid skeleton you have problems with trasport and storage.

> I mean, our drones aren't in the shape of men using gliders.

Then I came to the line: "Whitehead also built gliders until about 1906 and was photographed flying them." And indeed, the photos are in the article.