Тази година се навършиха 45 години от получаването на първият патент за парапланер. Негов създател е Domina C. Jalbert (1904-1991), № 3131894 от 5 май 1964 година.

http://mail.dir.bg/~marko07/_JALBERT_.pdf


Domina C. Jalbert в своята лаборатория, където около 1952 година се раждат принципите на любимият ни парапланер

Май това е бащата на парашута тип "Крило"

Нови технологии
Нови технологии ще се появят скоро в парапланеризма. Навлизането на новите карбонови еластични пръчки в структурата на крилото, беше една малка революция. Само икономическата ситуация и забраната върху новите технологии, наложена от военните спират новата революция. Какво може да очакваме от новите технологии? На първо място това е нова конструкция на самото крило, в която има нишки с управляема форма. До какво ще доведе това? Пилота ще може във всеки един момент да изменя формата и профила на крилото. С това ще се увеличи аеродинамичното качество на крилата и ще даде възможност за създавате на нови „адаптивни крила“. При тях във всеки един момент автоматично ще може да се адаптира крилото оптимално към условията.
По отношение на средата, новите технологии ще дадат възможност пилотът визуално да наблюдава възходящите и низходящите въздушни потоци. Ловенето на „термики“ ще стане пределно просто. Възможно е новата апаратура да показва и оптималния маршрут, макар, че последното ще „убие“ удоволствието от летенето.
45 години не стигат! Революцията продължава!

David Barish, ски център "Catskill Mountains" на 15 октомври 1965 година
http://forum.skynomad.net/gallery/displ ... ?pos=-6604

Първият регистриран успешен параполет според съвременните разбирания за това е на David Barish. Тази година ще отбележим 45 години от това събитие.

Становище на FAI

PARAGLIDING-Who is father?
It seems there is not one father of the paraglider, but many !
Francis Rogallo invented the flexible wing, so he's got to be the father of all flexible wings. But the only usable items that he ever made were the very successful Flexi-Kites, Mylar toys to be flown as kites, and the Parawing that the US Army Golden Knights parachute team used for a short while.
David Barish is not really the father of paragliding, as his Sailwing had no direct offspring and has been forgotten by history. But in the 60s, he imagined and created a canopy that he and many others flew as a sport machine on the slopes of many ski resorts, with the dream of making it the most popular airplane.
Domina Jalbert, also in the 60s, built the first cell wing. Yes, a wing with its latent ability to soar and climb, not just glide down, and all paragliders today are built according to Jalbert's concept. But Jalbert’s claim has two flaws: he saw his wing only as a kite or descending parachute, not as a free flying machine.
So Rogallo, Barish and Jalbert all certainly share the paternity of the paraglider, and also the experimenters who developed these three men’s designs and took them further and higher.
Most of the activity happened on what were basically jump chutes, until one day in 1985, when hundreds of pilots flew off the slopes of the Alps on specially designed machines and the media announced that a new sport - paragliding - was born.
Although still obviously a close relative of the Jalbert wing, the modern paraglider is as far removed from it as a Ferrari from a Fiat 500. The first mattress-shaped paragliders had a glide ratio of around 4:1 and an extremely narrow speed range; a top competition wing now will glide close to 10:1 at its optimum speed and may exceed 65kph at full speed.
This improvement has been brought about by a continual process of experimentation, lateral thinking and inspiration on the part of the designers.
Today, paragliding competitions include cross-country, aerobatic and accuracy championships
http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/book/export/html/89

Xavier Murillo has discovered the true birth date of paragliding – October 15 th, 1965 - and went to talk to the man that started it all.

David Barish 1921-2009: The forgotten father of paragliding
Submitted by lj on Sat, 09/01/2010 - 10:58.
The death of David Barish on 15 December 2009, so soon after that of Francis Rogallo, marks the loss of another of the visionaries which led to paragliding becoming the most popular world-wide aviation sport.
During an amazingly full and adventurous life, New-Yorker Barish became a pilot for TWA at the end of the 1930s. He was a P-51 Mustang pilot just as the War ended, remaining in the USAF while he obtained a Master' degree in theoretical aerodynamics at Cal-Tech. As a consultant, he put his knowledge to work in the field of parachute development, with much of his effort contributing to that powerhouse of radical design – NASA. The eventual outcome was a parachute with a glide ratio which could be as high as 4.2:1. Apart from the original design objective of being a medium for space-vehicle recovery, David Barish, a keen skier, saw potential for what he called 'slope-soaring' at ski resorts.
In the summer of 1966, Barish and his son, Craig, made a coast-to-coast tour of the USA, successfully demonstrating foot-launched slope soaring at numerous ski-resorts. He saw it as a new activity which with sufficient popular appeal to keep the cable-cars open through the lean summer months. This long tour absorbed a lot of his time and energy to little lasting effect and he soon returned to more rewarding aviation matters. He reckoned that he was a little too early and history has proved him right: the Barish Sailwing was almost forgotten. It would be almost another twenty years before paragliders as we now know them became common sights among the mountains.
Fortunately David Barish lived to see this and was even tempted to experiment further with design. He was Guest of Honour at the Coupe Icare in 2000, to a large extent through the efforts of French Journalist Xavier Murillo. He is survived by his wife, Johanna, sons Craig and Dana and daughter Wendy.
Noel Whittall Jan 2010
http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/node/1127

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