Editing Kite control systems (section)

== Historical kite control systems ==
;Wing warping
:A quad-line two-handled kite control system to [[wing warping|warp the wing shape]] used by the [[Wright brothers]] and other aviation pioneers. The brothers asserted the control system as their own invention, although several contemporaries claimed prior art including European patents issued in 1868 (before the brothers were born), culminating in a series of lawsuits was called the [[Wright brothers patent war]].
:This control system is quite similar to the [[sport kite|quad line sport kites]] used today.
;George A. Spratt triangle control frame
:[[Image:EarlySpratt6.jpg|thumb|right|Dr. George A. Spratt towed his hang glider on floats using a motorboat demonstrating cable-stayed triangle control frame (TCF) or A-frame for use in pilot-pendulumed weight-shift control of hang gliders, [[Ultralight trike|trike]]s, ultralights. United States, 1929.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070116080314/http://www.georgespratt.org/docs/EarlySprattAircraft.htm Early Spratt Aircraft]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070117015324/http://www.georgespratt.org/docs/MoreArticles.htm More on George A. Spratt]</ref>]]
:[[Triangle control frame]] for any towed or free-flight kite system.<ref>[http://www.georgespratt.org/ George Spratt] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404015238/http://www.georgespratt.org/ |date=2008-04-04 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.earlyaviators.com/espratt1.htm|title=George A. Spratt|website=www.earlyaviators.com}}</ref>
;Paresev
{{Main|NASA 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 his foot-launch [[hang glider]] in 1960–1962. He finally came upon what inventor [[George A. Spratt]] had already found in aviation and regarding any hang glider: a [[triangle control frame|triangle control frame or A-frame]] in front of the pilot while the pilot hung from a tether either in a seat or harness for various positions; the mechanical arrangement precluded the later invention of 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.