- C-bar At WW.
Short for control-bar system. See related TCF.
- cabane
- cabane strut
- cable
- cable fairing in fluid dynamic
currents
Ref55
- cable, inspection
- cable mechanics
- cable-suspended resonant wind engine
- cable suspended turbines
- cable travelers, cableway travelers
- cabled turbines
- cable waves
- cableway
load-motion
AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/11225
- cableway power transmission
- cableways
- polygonal cableway (approximates circular cableway)
- cable wing
Explore Peter R. Payne. Discuss the KiteLab flip wings on
tether or cable. DiscussHere: AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/14675
- cable yarding systems Ref1
- CAES compressed-air energy
storage
- calendar-specific AWE events versus
calendar-opportunistic AWE events
- calico, varnished calico wiki/Calico_(textile)
|
wiki/Varnish
- calm
- calm
challenges
- Calm Kiting Contest, Calm Kiting
Challenge CKC
- calm-kiting skills
- calm solutions
- record calms
- staying up in calm
- purposes of staying up in calms
- What is the extent of calms? Where, when,
duration?
- indoor calm air
-
- cam, mechanical cam
- camber Look to the
shape of the mean line between the top and bottom surface of an airfoil.
A symmetrical airfoil has a mean line that is straight. The off-straight
would have an indication of upper or lower camber. Art1
Art2
- camber reversing
"Joby & Makani's flygen concepts require camber or
rotation reversing for high turbine efficiency as they do
both thrust & power extraction without reversing airflow.
Sky WindPower's concept won't have to camber or rotation
reverse, merely change from generation to motoring blade
pitch setting (from neg to pos pitch), as its
turbines reverse airflow. ds
" M495
Aerobatic foils are often symmetrical (zero camber) & the ~15%
efficiency hit sounds about right for either side of zero AoA, but sport
aerobatics is not very efficiency driven. In marginal conditions a high-lift
high-camber foil (ie. flaps) can make the difference between crashing or not.
Efficiency must not be thrown away without a fight. The fish fins I study
reverse camber by simple mechanisms. Hummingbird & insect wings are also
good at reversing camber. AWE turbine designs have already adopted variable
pitch as a necessary expedient & efficiency booster. Reversible
camber can be integrated with variable pitch for even more gain. One way
is to simply "tack" the foil LE across the flow & reverse
rotation between motor & gen mode.
Sky WindPower, Makani Power, Joby Energy, etc. all face these turbine
trade-off issues, as they intend to motor up to altitude & loiter in
calm. The HAWP winners will tend to be the most efficient in every key
economic, physics, & engineering dimension.
~ daveS
- camlock, cam lock,
- canard
- canard kite Art1
wiki
- candlesticking
chute wrapping around spinning troubled paraglider wing and tethers.
Some pilot may carry a second rescue chute for use after candlesticking
of the first chute occurs. In kite energy
candlesticking of branched kites in kite trees may occur.
- cannon, cannons in AWES ?
AWES5277
- canopy
- solid canopy
- slotted canopy
- slits in canopies
- holes in canopies
- porosity of canopies
- fabric canopy
- single-lobe canopy
- double-lobe canopy
- triple-lobe canopy
- multi-lobe canopy
- canopies are used in the wing par of these kite
systems: parachutes, gliding parachutes, paragliders, powered kites,
powered paragliders,
- canopies with leading-edge enhancements (D-tube,
inflated tubes, inflated station tori, triangles, circles, ram-air
inflated chambers, ...)
- canopies with controllable trailing-edge flaps
- battens in canopies
- canopy shaped by ribs
- canopy shaped by sewn parts
- Paragliding
Disaster Events - Part II
- Disaster !! Bad
Collapse Handling
- cometclones.com
- v
- v
- v
- canopy flyer, canopy pilot, canopy rider, canopy kite,
canopy hang glider, canopy paraglider,
- canopy lines
- canopy reefing cutters
- canyon suck
- canyon winds
- caoutchouc
"I claim-- 1. The combination, with
the caoutchouc torsion-spring motor f and the hook h, the shank of which
forms a aft for the propeller screw and passes through the part b of the
frame, of the loose perforated glass or porcelain ball or bead n and the
loose washers o o, to forma friction-bearing for said shaft,
substantially as for the purpose
described."
See
FLPHGmsg 29118
- capacitor
- capacity factor
wiki
- capacity factor analysis
- capital
- capital cost
- capital-cost intensity ("upfront price v.
mean-energy over time" DS)
- capstan
GeneralImages
- captivate
- captivating
- captivating
stay Tether to
couple with the kite's wing or anchor.
- captive
aëroplane is a kite
- captivating
stay
Kling
- captive wings
- captive kytoons
- captive inflated LTA
objects
-
- captive autogiro
Rotor-Flyer
autogiro kite girokite
- capture
area swept area Note: Distinguish
between the area swept and the rate at which that area is swept (areal
velocity).
- capture lines
- capture rope (rope that holds a
balloon or kite; tether; ___etc.)
- carabiner
| wiki/Carabiner
- Carbo-kite http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AirborneWindEnergy/message/5814
- carbonated
wing wing with
carbon in it
- Carbon capture and storage (CCS), alternatively referred
to as Carbon capture and sequestrationl wiki
- carbon fiber
- carbon nanotube (single-walled, double-walled)
- carbon nanopaper GenRef
- car
holder of pilot and landing gear
- cargo
chute images
- http://carnegiescience.edu/
| | |
- ciw.edu redirects to http://carnegiescience.edu/
- Chris
Field
- 2011 December discussion panel. Exclusion challenge;
appeal on Dec. 15, 2011.
- understand the value of basic, boundary-free research and
investigation.
- v
- v
- v
-
- carousel
- KiteGen
Carousel
- http://www.dentzel.com/oldindex.html
for alternative-energy carousel
- KiteLab carousel methods. "AWE carousel
designs create in effect a single monumental generator strung together
like a bike wheel. Imagine a banked circular electric railroad with a
spoked hub & massive crank driven by phased cable tugs from vast
harvesting arrays in upper wind or ocean currents." E-mail Dec. 29, 2010
- HIGHWIND carousel by ERC
Highwind Publications
- carousel launch of kite method
- carousel configuration
- carousel generator
- http://www.google.com/patents?id=Q6aNAAAAEBAJ
cyclosail
- carrier
kite [Cody
man-lifting kite system: pilot kite, lifter kites, and carrier kite, and
basket ]
- Carrot™ by http://www.wainmanhawaii.com/
- cascade
as in "line cascade" for bridle set that has lines
bifurcating to capture the wing at more more point.
- cascade launch of an
arched kite train
- CAS
calibrated airspeed wiki
- cat toy
Kite systems may be configured and operated to amuse cats.
My cat likes to catch and mangle kite tails coming close to it. At times
the kite is fully stopped by cat-inflicted damages. The cat killed the
kite!
- CAT clear air
turbulence
- CATS computational
analysis of technical systems
- CAT computer-aided
translation, computer-assisted translation
- CATS Computer Assisted
Testing Service
- CATS Cycles
Analysis & Timeseries Software called CATS
- Catalyst Journal
of yacht research.
- January 2005: OutLeader™ Kites
by Dave Culp of KiteShip Inc. AAPT tries
out its new kite-spinnaker
- "spinnaker replacement kites"
-
-
- CAT clear air turbulence
- CAT circling-apex tripodal
- catenary
- "cathedrals" made of arched string and rag
vaults and domes
AWES6749
- cavex
- Cavex (tm)
- cavex, cavexion, cavexor, cavexors, cavexing [Faust
neo-offer]
One of several uses of cavexity is in shape-keeping of kytoons during
bladder-pressure changes. As expandable cavexor is expanded by
ram-air of bladder, a generator may be fix inline on the cavexor; this
is a mechanism yet to be explored well.
- cavexing
- cavexion
- cavexity ("tensional capture of two or
more points of a surface or manifold in any dimension" Joe
Faust )
- cavexor (tension member of a cavexity
arrangement; these may be simple or complex structures)
- cavexors (In a structure, there may be any number
of cavexors from the empty scene of count zero to n cavexors, countable;
there are also cases of uncountable infinite cavexors)
- certification,
certifications, certification of an AWE system for IFR or UAV flying or
for cloud flying or for broad NAS operations. Certifiers. Who certifies
the product to be up to certain standards?
- CEPGI Clean Energy Patent Growth
Index AirborneWindEnergy/message/8874
- CFD computational fluid
dynamics GeneralLink
wiki
- CFRP Carbon-fiber-reinforced
polymer wiki
- chamber, champers FirstNote
- chain
- kite
chain See trains
or kite trains
- chandlery Note: Be ready for use in
several sectors, not just candles.
- Boat chandlery "Our boat
chandlery section include essential marine
equipment that your boat can’t go without"
- Kite-system chandlery ... the place where
bling and things that makes kiting exciting, easier, and interesting is
stored and sold. A place where there are things that give
"light" and lightness to kite systems!
- a room or place where things are sold. "An operation (usually, a
business) which provides supplies."
- wiki
- changing tautness, cyclically spaced pulses charge
- channel
wing Willard Custard patent
| vid1
|
- chaos,
hyperchaos
- chaos
theory
wiki
- chaos-tolerant energy-transmission
- chaotic surge
- fluttering wing WEC
- metachrony for
phased power ~KiteLab, Ilwaco.
- chaotic maps
- v
- Chapman
- charge
- charge rate
- charge controllers
- charging current
- charging controllers
- Charles Sotich KitesAndCharlesSotich
Master
Miniature Kite Maker
- Charlie Brown and his hite
- Char-volant, charvolant
See
works of George Pocock ...early AWECS
- Chase
Honaker
- chasing
kites that have been released for any of many
causes.
- Are
the fugitive or released wings visible to the eye, to scanning
instruments?
- Do
the fugitive kite wings have identification on them?
- What
are the hazards of chasing fugitive wings?
- Are
there devices on the wings to control the release of tethers or to
control the glide path of the kite wings?
- What
are the hazards of fugitive kite wings to people, animals, ground
traffic, property, and other aircraft?
- kite-chasing
skills? Estimating the glide path of the fugitive
kite system? Staying aware of hazards during the kite chasing.
- [
"Lootera"
chased and fetched over 2000 kite wings]
- cheater bar
- check-line
In year 1869
patent
- checkout, ground
checkout
- check valve, one-way check valve
- chicken loop
| StylesNotes
| Kite
Safety Feature | |
- circling-apex tripodal (CAT)
- C-kite "The flipwing is a tamed C-kite,
(not a flutter-tape) semi-captive & high-sweep, with flat geometry
of a bow, but single skin, less embodied structure for more
LIFT." Dave Santos
- China wind energy industry
- China airborne wind
energy industry
- chine
- Chladni patterns
- chord
wiki
- mean aerodynamic chord
- local chord, chord at a station
- tip chord
- standard mean chord
- CHP : Cogeneration (also combined heat and power, CHP)
wiki/Cogeneration
- Christopher Carlin
- CI Cordage
Institute http://www.ropecord.com/new/publications.php
- circle
- circular cableway :: polygonal cableway (approximates circular cableway)
- circularly arched
planes Spratt (1918)
- circulation control wing
(CCW) Could this be a binary
control method for changing the direction of a kite; use some blown air
to change the aerodynamics of one side of the wing? See also
Willard Custard Channel Wing; channelwing.
- circling radius for a kite system's wing that is flying
circles
- cinch bag
- civilization-scale
power-generation technology (CSPGT)
AWET is a CSPGT.
- CKC
- C-kite WingMill
- CL coefficient of
lift, wiki/Lift_coefficient\
- ===================
- Claes Our folder: http://www.energykitesystems.net/JanClaes/index.html
- ===================
- classic kite, classic kites,
- clear air turbulence
(CAT) wiki
- Clément
Ader wiki
Pioneers/ClementAderEolePatent.jpg
- C lines video1
- climate change
mitigation by aviation means
- Clipper WindPower
- clockwork
- cloth
- cloth rupture
- cloud clouds
- cloud flying, cloud-flying rules
- closed-source AWE
- Cluster
- clutch
Types
- clutch needle bearings
- CMS content
management system
- CNC machine
- COA Certificate
of authorization or waiver
- coaching, kite coach, kite-coaching days,
- Coanda effect wiki
- co-axial, coaxially, zzzzz
- cob of line
- Cody | Samuel Franklin Cody |
- Cody
man-lifter CodySite1
- COE cost of energy. Also examine LCOE
for levelized cost of energy. Just
what parameters are costed? Ignoring some costs occurs
regularly. Who is to decommission a project? Who is to
pay for the costs of medical care and social care for the people who are
reduced by the pollution of some energy processes?
- coefficient
- coefficient of drag wiki for drag coefficient
- coefficient of lift wiki for lift
coefficient
- coefficient of performance
- cogging or cogging
torque See: Generator
Glossary
- coils
- Colditz Cock wiki
See video of representation for a movie.
- collapse
- collapse of canopy wing as a safety mechanism
- collapse recovery
- collapse from surge
- collapse from speed
- collapse from windfield helicities
- collapse from structure failure
- collapse-resistance strategies
- symmetric collapse
- asymmetric collapse
- partial collapse
- complete collapse
-
-
- collapse lines
These are lines that initiate various sorts of collapse of kite system.
Collapse lines need not be kite-kill lines; though kite-kill lines may
be a type of collapse lines. In testing gliding-kites of the
soft-canopy sort as used in paragliding, collapse lines may be in
addition to regular wing-shape former, wing-shape-control lines for
regular flight purposes. Collapse lines may be used in SIV work,
wing-test work, etc. in order to test how the system's wing set recovers
from induced collapses of various sorts.
- collective pitch
control E.g. in a kite train: vary
the pitch of all elements to form a cyclic tug variation for pumping or
cranking at the ground for energy generation. Consider also the variable pitch that occurs in flip
kites that gives cyclic tension changes that can be mined at the ground.
Huge metakites can use pitch variation to achieve tension changes in
kite lines for generating energy on the ground.
- collective ground generation
- ds: from AWES units bring lines to central legacy
generators. Collect the working lines of separate working units.
- collective
ground generation
- v
- collective R&D
- collision avoidance
(CA)
- sensors and communications (and redundancy) for CA
- v
- v
- v
- Colossal carbon
tube wiki
-
- Colver,
Frank Colver Sailwing
aka: Colver Skysail http://tinyurl.com/inEKShghFrankColver
CSS member
USHPA #7 Photographed in
the classic PhotoFly photograph of Low & Slow No.12,
centerfold.
- Colver
Variometer
... made by Frank Colver and used some in early modern hang
gliding renaissance. Frank Colver still has one; he showed the
instrument at Torrey Pines Gliderport on April 2, 2011, when he also
showed his 20' Eipper FlexiFloater. "I
brought the only Colver Variometer that I still own, to set on the table
for historical display. The only HG I still have is my 20' Eipper
FlexiFloater and I set it up for display. It got a lot of attention
because it was the largest "standard" Rogallo in the Eipper
product lineup and not very many were built. Even though I had flown
that glider a lot, it is still in very good condition and several people
took little hops down the grassy hill there. One guy, who was there,
said he probably built my glider when he was at Eipper." "it
was the first aircraft instrument ever to be designed and produced
exclusively for hang gliders. In watching the DVD I would spot one of
them every once in awhile on a glider in the scene. Over the years about
5,000 of them were sold."
-
- combined
kites "How
to Make Combined Kites"
·
commercialization
criteria
What is involved to get AWECS commercialized?
- commercial-scale AWE
Other sectors of AWE scale: utility-scale AWE, commercial-scale AWE,
residential-scale AWE, nomadic-scale AWE, sport-scale AWE, toy-scale
AWE, miniature-scale AWE, or micro-scale AWE
- commercial success for
AWECS
Customers are satisfied. AWECS
company is profitable. Earth is better for the exchange.
- committee AWEIA has
committees dedicated to accomplishing specific industry tasks.
- common shaft
- common situational awareness
- communications relay
- Community-scale AWES, community-scale wind power projects,
- compact ratcheting system
- comparative cost of energy
CCOE CCoE
- comparison Compare AWECS
among themselves. Compare instances of a given method. Compare
AWECS with conventional towered turbines.
- compass
- compass at KiteGen compasso
- complex harmonics
- complexity
- composite oscillators
- compressed air
- compressed-air energy storage CAES
- compression
- compression pawl
- compressor
- computer controlled kite CCK, CCKs
- computer controlled kite system
CCKS, CCAWE, CCAWECS,
- comp wing competition wing
- concave
- concave parabolic arch kite U.S.
Patent 4,018,408
- concept space
- AWE concept space
- Kite-energy concept space
- conductive roller bearing Ref1
- conductive tether,
conductive kite line M474
- conductor
- cone
- coned rotor, coning rotor,
- coning
"the
thrust-bending force that acts on propellers is called coning" |
"the hinged blades bend very slightly, forming a shallow cone"
| "The flexible blades and the principle of active coning
allow the blades to deflect with the wind to such an extent
that" | "blade coning" |
"the swept area of the coned rotor is slightly larger than
that of" | " "
- coning angle "On heavy blades the coning angle may be only 1 to 2
degrees, says British aerodynamicist Andrew Garrad"
| preconing, precone angle,
preconed hub, |
"The upward
flexing of a rotor blade due to lift forces acting on it is called
coning" FUNDAMENTALS OF
ROTORS |
- confluence point
- Conops is a genus of fly from the
family Conopidae. The larvae of Conops are parasitic on bees,
especially bumblebees. Adults feed on nectar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conops
- CONOPS - A Concept of Operations (abbreviated CONOPS,
CONOPs, or ConOps) is a document describing the characteristics of a
proposed system from the viewpoint of an individual who will use that
system. It is used to communicate the quantitative and qualitative
system characteristics to all stakeholders. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONOPS
|
CONOP
|
Concept
Of Operation
|
|
CONOP
|
Continuous Operation
|
|
CONOP
|
Contingency Operations Plan
|
·
- conspicuity Conspicuity
issues? How will other aircraft see AWES?
- continuous blade
- continuous loop power
- continuous time recurrent neural network (CTRNN)
- control
KiteEnergyCONTROL
- control issues in kite energy and tethered aviation
- AirborneWindEnergy/message/8290
- chaos, oscillation, synchrony, antisynchrony.
- passive
- active
- control autonomy
- wiki/Cybernetical_physics
- passive kite control
methods, with inherent stabilities, are true flight automation AirborneWindEnergy/message/8475
- LF CPR
centerline push release
2010 chicken loop; donkey dick, release,
flag-line option, Video promo
Flagging out on the front line using flag-line option. Lose
chicken loop or not.
- fifth line systems
- slip wing
- flagging
- control and security
- land and end session
- water-surface relaunch
- self rescue
- combine passive and active
controls AWES6749
- http://www.powerkiteshop.com/accessories/accessoriescontrolgear.htm
- HQ
kite killers (K retainer, not a safety depower system)
- control box,
kite steering unit is sometimes also in a box and called "control
box"
- control engineering
- W. Simon A-frame in hang gliding; triangle
control frame in hang gliders. Exhibited at meet in Breslau
in 1908.
- control input
- controllable kite
- controlled power lifting
- controlled tethered airfoils
CTA ... kites
- Cabrinha
four-line system:
- quick release, QR
- QR1
- QR2
- reset
- QR2 ball
- IDS intelligent depower system
- bridle and control system
- tech tip,
- two stages of depower
- Stage One: interactive depower on demand,
- Stage two: absolute depower.
- CAS, centerline adjustment strap or Center Line
Adjustment Strap,
- harness loop
- harness
- perform self-rescue,
- recovering equipment
- mainline
- main line
- pin
- Velcro tab
- harness loop,
- stainless steel trapezoid
- landing-line ring
- stainless steel pin
- QR body
- landing line quick release ball
- security pin
- spare-parts
installation instructions
- Lets reserve "passive" for embodied
logic. AirborneWindEnergy/message/9455
- v
- v
- control costs
- energetic cost of control
- AirborneWindEnergy/message/9711
sensing, computing, actuation
- What are the costs of controlling a kite system? What
are the energy costs of controlling an AWES?
- control units have mass and are involved in
accelerations when flying
- Vision technology can
be incorporated into kite control. AirborneWindEnergy/message/9749
- control
theory
AWES is served by the gifts from control theory.
- controlled ventilation
- control line
- integrating multiple kite control
lines
Pocock
- AWES6016
Sleeves holding two or more control or tether lines
- controlling kite
- controller
- controllers
- control
pod SkySails
- control programming
- control programs
- control rate
- control rope
- control science
- control software
- conventional kite-based energy systems
- conventional
wind-power systems CWS
or CWT conventional wind
turbines These are ground-or building or
towered devices. Differently are airborne and free-flight
systems. Kite-based systems are non-conventional. AWES or
KES respectively for airborne wind energy systems or kite energy
systems.
- conversion schemes, conversion
methods. AWECS methods. Ways to convert wind
into useful works. AWE4757
| Methods
- conveyor methods M434
- convex
- COOLIP, CoopIP, cooperative intellectual property. CC BY-NC-SA (same as
coolIP)
Legal Note: coolIP is hereby defined as a Creative-Commons
Unported NonCommercial Share-Alike License, so now we are integrated
with the latest standard cooperative IP model, but
"coolIP" remains a nice shorthand.
The IP has been placed into IP pool or public
domain for all to use freely in their own specific engineering efforts in
AWECS. Some inventors are immediately placing their inventions into COOLIP.
Lawrence Hargrave was a COOLIP kite leader.
FairIP
Disambiguation Note- CoopIP is
being renamed FairIP, where any AWE conceptual creator working outside
the broken patent system can claim a moral right to compensation on an
"honor system" basis. It is anticipated that socially responsible
companies will honor & even create FairIP, if costs are kept
low overall & lower than competitive patented IP.
CoopIP is henceforth defined
as pooled FairIP & patents, copyrights, etc. along cooperative
principles.
DS, April 16, 2010
- cooperative
IP CC BY-NC-SA (same as
coolIP) coopIP
- coordinated research
[AWE researchers coordinating research] is an aspect of KiteLab Group.
- COP cost of product, cost of production, cost of power,
. See somewhat related ROI parameter for a
project.
- cord
cord varieties
- cord is sometimes the spelling used for
chord of a wing. The amount of use of "cord" for an
airfoil's "chord"
is not known by this author.
- cordage
- cordage
- core
- core strength member
- Coriolis effect
wiki
- Coriolis
force
Art1 Art2
- corner-block Art1
Art2
AWE4656
-
- corkscrews of air
- cost
- cost competitive
For commercial AWECS, it will be key to become cost competitive
relative to natural gas, coal, oil, hydro, geo-thermal, conventional
wind, and solar. Niche application have their own cost
competitive portfolio.
- cost-of-energy
(COE) See also: comparative
cost of energy (CCOE)
- cost of power
- cost of production
- Costello, Hilary Hilary
Costello tether
dynamics, cable dynamics, streamlined tethers,
·
coterie
| kite-system
coterie | coterie of kite elements
| See also gangline | kite
clustering | kite bundles | kite clusters | kite
trees, kite coteries, kite arches, kite clusters, kite trains and kite stacks | roots | branching |
gangline |
Related: coterie, train, stack, series, net, lattice, dragon, chain, tree,
branching, root system, matrix, dense operations,
See related:
- COTS commercial
off-the-shelf
- COTS AWE, cotsAWE AWE that is put together
using commercial off-the-shelf items. This is a step away from
TTAWE or trashTechAWE
- Coulomb's Law
wiki
- coupled flutter instability
- coupled
synchrony See Dr.
Hare. See Dave Santos.
- counterweight
- Cour, Poul La Wind to hydrogen and oxygen. Gust
smoothing.
- courses
- "master-level courses “Kite Power &
Propulsion” (AE4T40) and “Wind Power” (AE4W20), both part of the
curriculum of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University
of Technology, and both
addressing the theoretical background and working principles of
Airborne Wind Energy conversion concepts." 2012
source
-
- Cousteau TurboSail
- cover, coverage
- Such is sometimes the sail material of a kite, as the
material covers the frame of the wing.
- using the volume of airspace
- AWES7565
- v
- Creative Commons http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ
- credibility
- critically excited/dampened oscillator
- Creighton,
Robert of WindLift Bart Bartlett
Shae Ranalli
-
- crew (team of more than one
person is usually implied). Compare "crew"
with single-pilot operation or crew-of-one pilot. groundcrew
and aircrew
-
- crinkled-paper covering
- cross controlling
- crosslinking multiple arches into a
MacroKite SeeHere
- cross spar
Sometimes found as cross-spar.
- crosswind
wiki
- crosswind airspeed
- crosswind anchor systems
in AWES
- crosswind kite power system
(CWKPS) wiki
- crosswind-arch
laddermill (DaveS)
- crosswind shuttling,
cross-country crosswind shuttling, M4041
- crosswind surface
track AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/11225
- crosswind tipping-boom geometry
- crosswind dipping boom.
crosswind tipping boom, crosswind ballasted tipping boom, crosswind
wafting lever, TipB, ballasted tipping boom, M107
- crosswind ground tracks
- crosswind kiting
- crosswind kite power
Peter R. Payne, filed Jan 28, 1975  
- Crosswind Kite
Power
Loyd, M.L., 1980, “Crosswind Kite Power”, Journal of Energy, vol. 4, No.
3, pp 106-
11.
- crosswind power, CrossWindPower,
- CROSSWIND
POWER SYSTEMS INC. A
priority date on a patent: August 2010 (05.08.2010)
- crosswind speed
- crosswind tipping boom or
wafting lever, often ballasted for groundgen AWECS using sweeping kites
in crosswind power to tap tangential forces. See tipping boom.
- crosswind trolley, crosswing cable trolley,
crosswind cableway AirborneWindEnergy/message/9803
- crowsfoot
attachment Bridle line splits
to rib line with several attachment points in mimic of bird's foot.
- crumble zone
- CSBF Columbia
Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) in Palestine, Texas,
USA. Mission.
- CSIKES (cannot stop inventing kite-energy
systems, invented by JpF, following Doug's lead.)
- C.S.I.S., or
CSIS an invention by Doug
Selsam? "Can't Stop Inventing
Stuff" or something. In AWE there is also: CSIKES (cannot stop
inventing kite-energy systems, invented by JpF, following lead of Doug.)
- CSP CSP power plants
provide solar power using mirrors to concentrate sunlight to create heat
which is used to produce steam to drive steam turbines and electricity
generators. ... A solar energy
conversion system characterized by the optical concentration of solar
rays through an arrangement of mirrors to heat working fluid to a high
temperature. ... [[AWECS stayed
above clouds might used onboard CSP for onboard power production, and
perhaps more. ]] wiki
- CTA controlled tethered airfoils :: kites
- CTO Chief technical officer. E.G. of
KiteLab Group, first CTO: Dave Santos
- CTR A control
zone (CTR) in aviation is a volume of controlled airspace,
- cube of wind velocity
- cube kite cube-stackingdiagram1.gif
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- Cuben fiber
Cuben Fiber
Corp. has been acquired by North Sails, LLC.
Click http://na.northsails.com/ for
the company that now provides high performance rip-stop Cuben
Fiber fabric for sailmakers. Cubic Tech
Corp. develops non-sailing applications of Cuben Fiber style flexible
laminates for other industries that manufacture parachutes, kites,
balloons, airships, tension structures, tubes and tube reinforcements,
flexible pressure vessels, tarps, backpacking, medical devices,
protective clothing, aerospace equipment etc. http://www.cubictechnology.com
The name 'Cuben Fiber' was made up by the press in 1992 as a short for
the 'America Cube Fiber' that contained a mix of carbon and polymer
filaments.
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- Culp,
David RefSet
OutLeader Patent
KiteTug KiteShip
- Cult of Lowest
Mass-Aloft AWES5825
- current
- current generator
- current motor (often
meaning current generator)
- curve, curves
- curved airfoil
- curved-spar sled US Patent 3,767,145
Raymond Prunty Holland, Jr.
- cursor kite
- Custer
lift Willard
Custer focused on channel wing for speeding boundary layer on the top
surface of a wing to enable increased lift for wings.
Custer ducts. Custer channel wings.
- customers
Categories of customers of AWECS?
- M3374
Yacht power
- Sport traction users
- Demonstrators. People who want to demonstrate and
educate the world about kite energy
- RV owners
- Campers
- Hikers
- Rural home
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- cut-in speed
- cut-in windspeed
- cutter
- CWE
- clean wind energy
- conventional wind energy
- Contrast CWE with the emerging AWE airborne wind
energy
- v
- v
- CVT (continuously
variable transmission)
wiki
- C-wing "The flipwing is a tamed C-kite,
(not a flutter-tape) semi-captive & high-sweep, with flat geometry
of a bow, but single skin, less embodied structure for more
LIFT." Dave Santos
- CWT
conventional wind turbines
- CyberKite
Reference:
Aeroix
"CyberKite - an automated Hybrid Ram Air Wing Kite System" Google meter on October 30, 2009: about
460 for cyberkite. The word seems to
have many non-AWE uses on Internet. Only one instance on Oct. 30,
2009, at the bio of Ivo
Boblan where he declares being a developer of things for
Aeroix. http://www.festo.com/rep/en-us_us/assets/pdf/CyberKite_en_260309.pdf
http://www.aeroix.de
- cyclicAWE
versus linearAWE
- “cyclic pitch”, in which the blades are forced to change
pitch back and forth by “swash plates” during every
rotation. Source: Article.
- cyclic power production
- cyclic two-phase wings array manoeuvre
- cyclic trim drag
- cycling
KITES
Holland et al Curved spar sled kite
Concave
parabolic arch kite Peter J. Pearce et al
- cyclosail Type of
carousel http://www.google.com/patents?id=Q6aNAAAAEBAJ
May 27, 2005
- Cymatics
wiki
This direction will affect analysis of complex kite coteries (ganglined
KES elements, lattices, nets, trains, clusters, matrices, chains, roots,
trees, branchings, ...)
- cylinder
- cylindroid, cylindroids
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