- R2G race-to-goal event or task
- R&D research and development.
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- race kite, racing kites, racing kite
course racing kites, race kiting. Kites designed for speed
traction activities over land, water, snow, ice, roads, rails ... are
race kites.
- RAD rapid airborne development, Rapid AWE
Development, Rapid AWECS Development, rapid AWES
development
- radar
AWESfile
- radar-absorbent material
wiki
- radar reflective
- radio
- radio control
- radio frequency energy
- radio-link failure
- radio signal
- radiosonde
wiki
- radius
- radius tether and power tether
Discussion in 2003 by Kiteguy of Newburg, Oregon:
Wayne German
- rag
- WingMill
- hang gliders that feature sails as opposed to rigid-wing hang
gliders
-
- RAID Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment
by Ratheon
- rail
- railgun Will
electromagnetic railguns ever be used to launch AWES components?
Art1
- rail tether
- rain
- rain and kite systems
- Consider hydrophobic materials and surface treatments for all parts
of a kite system
- Consider on Jalbert-parafoil evolutes: drain holes
- "Come in out the rain, my son!" Some rain events are also
lightning events. Electrical grounding tethers and other safety measures
are to be addressed.
- Hydrophobe
-
- Related: icing, dew wetting, mildew, rot, weight change of the wing
set, weight change of the tether set
- Notice that some kite systems have a niche purpose of collecting
water from the atmosphere.
- Some kite systems have a niche purpose of cooling drinking water.
- Visibility is to be carefully considered. Is the kite system
relating with other aircraft appropriately? Are airspace rules being
followed during rain occurrence? Put safety first.
- Capillary action may place water into places that may cause damage
to the kite-system parts. Consider this in designing a kite system.
Consider that water drawn into tight places might become frozen; the
freezing of water is an expanding scene; the expansion may crack and
break parts.
- Wing covers that absorb water or even stay wet will change
aerodynamic performance. Do you want the change or not?
- Many sport and hobby
soft kites already have simple sand/water drains in the trailing-edge.
Another helpful feature is a reduced frontal intake area (often with
flap valves). A good example of all these features in a popular trainer
kite is the HQ Hydra line. Parafoils, with so many cells, and the
presumption of fair-weather use, have not required this capability. This
point is a TACO omission, so it will be added in future versions. The
obvious conclusion is that such drains be a design-default in
safety-critical parafoil AWES, and perhaps be mandated in FARs.
An intuitive parafoil drain design is to vent across all cells at the
TE, as well as provide multiple small drains from wingtip to wingtip.
Even hollow rigid wings need careful rain and condensation drain design,
but single-skin concepts like Mothratech avoid the whole issue. Its well
known that modern kites fly with only slightly reduced performance in
rain (KiteLab Ilwaco flies single-skin experiments in rain routinely and
Enerkite has reported parafoil AWES rain operation).
Lets not forget rain collection as a niche in our giant-kite design
toolkit, with elaborate networks of gutters, drains, hoses, and tanks
possible. Many hot deserts have considerable rainfall aloft that
normally evaporates well above the surface, but in reach of kites. We
also recall the ancient Polynesian kite magic of flying sponges into
clouds to harvest fresh water. ~Dave Santos
- v
- v
- rain-shadow effect of AWES, especially of very large AWES farms
WaterAndAWES
- rain sustainability
- ram-air
- ram-air kites
- ram-air inflation
- rapid airborne development
- Raptors
- rata
http://2e5.com/kite/rata/
- rate
- rated
- rated power for an AWES
- relief valve, pressure-limiting relief valve
- release step followed by traction step
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- reluctance (magnetic)
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- remiges (singular: remex)
wiki
- remoteAWE
- remote control
- remote-controlled morphing
- remote-controlled shaped wing
- remote operated vehicle ROV
- REn renewable energy
- renewable energy
- renewable energy brokers
- renewable energy resellers
The extant and growing set of brokers may carry AWECS along with their
other carried products.
- renewable energy retailers
- Renewistan This is the high altitude
wind space where AWECS live and work. Coining term: Saul Griffith
of Makani Power, Inc.
- reopen
- reopenings After
closings or collapses or cravats may follow a reopening of a wing's
shape.
- REP remote elevated platform
CaldwellAndMayer
- rescue parachute, rescue chute
- reserve
- reserve ride
The ride down in one's reserve parachute is a reserve ride.
- reserved parachute
- residential-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
- resistance
- resonance
wiki
- Resonance failure
- resonance technology
- resonant frequency
- resonant technology
- resonant vibrations
- resonant wave motion
- resonate frequency
- restricted airspace
- retract, retracts, retract phase
- retractable landing gear
- v
- retraction
- retract phase
In reel-in-and-out AWES method (yo-yo): the costing reeling-in portion
of operations.
- retract the kite
- Consider "no-retract" AWES
AirborneWindEnergy/message/9877
- opposite of power phase
-
- retrieve
- retrieval mode
- revenue generating system |
revenue generating KES system | revenue generating AWECS
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- reverse
-
- reversed pumping
presentation2010
Paper
-
reversed effective force See"
d'Alembert's principle
- reverse pumping
- reversible ratchet
- revolable
- revolute joint
wiki/Revolute_joint
- Revolution
Power Blast
- Revolution kites Joseph Hadzicki
and David Hadzicki
- revolve
- revolving
- revolving apparatus
- Reynolds number
wiki
Symbol: Re
- request for grant proposal
- rewind, rewinding, rewinding phase, rewind path, rewind section,
rewind run, rewinding run, rewind phase,
- RFP Request For Proposal
- rheology
- ribbon
- rib
- ribs
-
Ribs can even act as part of a turbulation mechanism to maintain
attached flow in turbulent conditions. One sees ribbed wings everywhere
in nature, from insects to birds and bats and fish fins. Its wonderful
to see how stone-age aerodynamicists figured out how to use *transverse*
ribs as turbulators on items like throwing sticks, enhancing
performance. Modern toys like Frisbees and Aerobies rely on ribs in
just this way. Ribs is therefore just a tool in our wing-design toolkit.
-
rib materials
-
rib testing
-
types of ribs
-
rib aerodynamics
-
v
- RIB rigid inflatable boat
http://www.ribcraftusa.com/
- ribbon kite rotating ribbon kite, ribbon arch kite
- ribbon microphone
- ribbon rotor W.
Roeseler
Ribbon rotors
- ribbon-piezoelectric crystal
- ribbons
- ribbon wings
- ribbon arch kite (rotary ribbon)
- ribs
- Ricketts
Marc Ricketts
- rig
- riggers
- riggers' bling (very nice hardware for
rigging solutions)
- rigging ... toward
similarity cases to inform kite energy systems
- rigid
- Tethered wings used to perform tertiary
works may involve rigid structures at any AWE scale. Also, playing may
be fully-limp wings. Sticks, carbon whiskers, gears, rotor blades of
high stiffness, positive-inflated airbeams for rigidiizing, ram-air air
cells for rigidizing, rigid wings, etc. are part of the kite-system
construction space that holds AWE solutions. Rigid parts used in line
systems are part of the AWE effort. Generators and pumps and anchors
that are integral parts of tethered and untethered AWE systems often
have rigid parts. The mix and balance of parts (regardless of the degree
of rigidity) of a particular AWES at any scale challenges designers. A
wide variety of options are being explored. The AWE movement is barely
knocking at the doors of comparative testing of any two systems at any
scale by neutral third parties. ~ JoeF 7Apr2014
- v
- v
- rigid-body system
- Rigifoil, RigifoilMax, Rigifoil Max
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- rigifoilmaterials, rigifoil materials
- Rim-drive wind turbine RDWT
- Ring Train Generator
M434
- ring wings See our entry for
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- ripstop textiles, line loadpath network methods,
wiki
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- risky schemes
- rivers
- rixel (suggested term by Selsam) for a type of kixel
that is a rotating mill blade. One might see that Roberts might
use the term "rixel" someday, as note the wrestling in his patent
application:
- RMS root mean square
wiki
- Robert Ingraham, Bob Ingraham, founder of AKA.
b. and d. Kite Tales. Oct. 1964 founding AKA
with 9 members: For the record, the first members were : Benn Blinn ;
George M . Endicott ; Robert M. Ingraham (Founder) ; F . C . Jewell, M
.D . ; Francis M . Rogallo ; Walter Scott; F Rankin Weisgerber; Will
Yolen ; and Anthony Zeigler
- Robins
Benjamin Robins.
- Robins-Magnus effect
- Robins effect
-
RoboKite by
Baptiste Labat
- robots, robot
- robot pilot
- rock
- rocker
- rocket
- rocket launch of kite system
AWES5277
- rocket launch line grabber
- rocking
- rocking arm
See also: WPI rocking boom
- rocking balanced beam
- rocking boom
- ROI R.O.I. return on investment
- rockoon
wiki
- rod
- Rods used in assisting kite retrieval
- "rod" as a slang for a hang glider
-
-
roddyIP
Roderick Read, Rod Read,
- Rogallo, a term used for various objects and crafts
- Rogallo Wing (limp: Rogallo parawing). When Rogallo Wing is
stiffened: Rogallo paraglider (core founding format for the 1960s-1975
kite hang gliders (to be distinguished from term "paraglider" that has
come to mean limp governable gliding-soarable-roled parachutes). Francis
Rogallo was the first to teach fully-limp wind-inflated kite wing of
single surface (and he included inflatable members, but easily not to
the sophisticated level that was taught by Domina Jalbert in the
parafoil limp airfoil kite).
http://RogalloHangGliders.com
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rogue wind helicity
-
Rokkaku
-
roller
fairleads
RollerFairleadIMAGES
-
roller-furler
-
Ronstan Pulleys
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- rope
- rope blade
Method of
Utilization a Flow Energy and Power Installation Filed:
September 6, 2001
- rope-braking devices
- rope connected to drum
- rope-driving
-
- rope handling and care
- rope loadpath network
- rope soar Phrase used by
Donnell Hewett to refer to hang glider pilot soaring under long-line
remote mooring (could be moving or not).
-
Rope transmission,
the subject of this article, stands apart from all other power
transmission technologies because it doesn't involve any conversion of
energy.
- rope twisting
- rope twist counter
- rope types
- Rotachute
- rotar (alt. found for rotor)
- rotary arch kite
PatAp4
- rotating-arm structure
- rotative inertia
Term used here.
-
rotary kites
- rotary kite risk assessment
- Rotary load velocity
rotational velocity under load
- rotary motion
- rotary ribbon
- rotary ribbon arch kite
- rotary switch
- rotational air flow
- rotational energy harvester
- rotating aerostat
- rotating base
- rotating kite
See: rotary kites (many distinct types)
-
- rotating kytoon
- rotating parachute
- rotating platform
- Rotating Space Elevator (RSE)
- rotating tether
CAUTION: A tether might rotate about its longitudinal axis or about some
point on the tether as a hand of a handheld compass.
- rotation
- rotational speed
- rotation base
- rotation reversing
- rotative sustaining blades
as in
Gyrokites or
FlipWings
- rotatory kite
Use1nPatentByWie
- Rotoki product kite by Stanley E.
Albertson, Jr. .
Patent
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RotoKite
- rotor
- rotor-based
- rotor-based AWE
- rotor-based AWES
- rotor-based kite-energy system
- rotor-based kite system
- rotorcraft
- rotorkite, RotorKite, rotor kite, rotor kites, rotor ship,
rotor ships
Art1
- rotor, spinners
- rotor frequency
-
rotovator
a specialized tether for space operations:
- rough
- roughness
- roughness length
wiki/Roughness_length
- ROV remote operated vehicle
- rowing machine mechanism
- Royal Meteorological Society
- F. R. Met. Soc. [ Fellow of the R. Met.
Soc. ]
- Early kiting
-
- royalty, royalties from AWE-station siting on lands
- RTF ready-to-fly
product. RTF AWES. RTF kite system. etc.
- r, t, w are
the sets that make up a gliding kite or paraglider. The r is the set of
elements that provide resistance to the kiting action of the elements of
w. The w is the set of wings in the paraglider or gliding
kite; w may have one or many wing elements. The set of tethers
coupling r and w is the set t. The t many have one or more lines.
The set w may hold a combination of any wing known to mankind at any
degree of solidity or flexibility; w may hold rotating wings.
A gliding kite or paraglider is set into a fluid and success brings some
gliding. A full underwater analogue exists for these matters. The usual
scene is in gravity fields, but such is not essential as other effective
fields may answer: magnetic fields. electrostatic fields, virtual
fields, etc.
- rubber
- rubber band
wiki
- rucksack
- rudder
- rugged technology
- run
- running
- run out
- Let the kite's wing pull out line fast. "The idea was
to run out about a mile of wire ..."
- Also: A human assistant could take kite line and run out with
the line to a distant point for attaching a kite's wing for a launch.
- Also: A kite operation could run out of line for any further
extending of the wing set's position. out :: depleted
- running gear
- running rigging
- runaway kites, runaway tandems, escaping kites, breakaway kites,
fugitive kites. Unless intended in very specific conditions,
prevent runaway kite systems by various means.
 Incident in 1896.
- RW
- run
winging Run with a wing.
Wing running.
- In skydiving: relative work. Relative Work. Skydivers in
freefall flying relative to each other. (Relative
Work) Now known as Formation Skydiving. Skydivers in freefall link
up to create formations.
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- RWT ram-water turbine (analogue
to RAT). RWTs plural.
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