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   Do They Realize That They Are Kiting?
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  • Many activities go by names that might tend to hide the technical reality that the activity is a form of kiting.  Technical kite scientists may not want to miss studying the activities that are kiting but have activity names that variously hide the core kiting mechanics.  A wealth of lessons may be devived from the developments in each kiting activity; the lessons may inform other kiting activities seemingly far removed from some initial kiting activity. 

  • One aim of this present topic is to bring to the table scores and more of activities that are fundamentally a form of kiting. Proposed activities may be discussed to reveal how they are kiting forms. Then, of course, we may branch to each activity for separate topics (as we have done already for many kting activities.

  • A powerboat towing a hydrofoiled board with a human onboard the board piloting at least one end of the system is involved in a kiting activity. That claim may be discussed.  It is feasible for the board pilot to be piloting remotely the powerboat. And generation of electricity in such a kiting system may be described and discussed.       Etc., etc.    Enthusiast of powerboat towing of hydrofoil boads are not found referring to their activing as a form of kiting, but they could and be resonant with technical fact.

  • It may be fun and enlightening to unfold a system to find a way to see the "kiting" involved.   Of course, discussants may have differing assumptions and definitions that result in differing conclusions; that may provide a colorful set of things to think about.

  • Case study:  How to TOW with a CHAIN smoothly   Identify how kiting is occurring. Identify the two media involved. Notice how either vehicle is opposing wing to the other. Discuss how power anchoring and reverse-power anchoring occurs during during the kiting. Notice how electricity could be generated in the system, if wanted. What practical goods are being obtained in the case kiting system? Slack-line events? Changes in direction events? Keeping tether set taut? Gliding? What are the challenges on going from slack tether set to taut tether set?  How would this case face going down a steep road or up a steep road?

  • Case study:  Tug Boat Towing a Tanker Ship at Sea     Tether set? Wing set?  Two media? Glidingtimes? Kiting times?  P:owered anchor?  When the tanker is seen as a kited wing in this scene, the wing is a "lighter-than-water" wing deflecting water and deflecting air. The tanker may have steerable devices in its system.  The tug at times may be seen as a powered anchor; the tug may change directions by control surfaces also.

  • Case study:  ANCHORING A MEGA-SHIP (ANCHOR WEIGHT 22 TONS) - 4K UHD VIDEO - THE SEAWOLF      Two or three media in this case seem to occur; first two and then three.  After three media are involved in the kiting scene, then what happens to the mega-ship relative to the air and water media? How might electricity be generated during the scene from the water and air currents?  Kiting might seem to begin when the 20-T "anchor" item begin to be lowered; it is at first in the air where dynamic anchoring begins; then the "wing" (yes, the 20-T device) hits the water partially (two media environment: air and water) and then that device submerged is just in water and later water and soil (media phases).  Discuss.
    How Ship Anchor Works? - Procedure For Anchoring a Ship at Sea

  • Potential future AWES arrays at sea may use seabed anchors while aerial arrays of wings work to drive electric generators.

  • Case study:  Multi Action Chain Link Drag Harrow  

  • Case study:  Pulling Massive Black Oak Against Lean (method explained)  Specialed nomenclature may be interpreted into terms known in other kiting realms.

  • Case study: There's NO WAY you'll recover that truck! (Rescuing a Chevy Silverado)   

  • Case study:  Safely towing a dingy | Sail Fanatics   

  • Case study: Active flags    Discuss how some flagging rises to hold technical kiting. 
  • Case study:  Ski-slope tow loops moving people to higher ground.
  • Case study:  Ballooning spiders
  • Case study:  People pulling wagons, toys,
  • Case study:  Playing tetherball    
  • Case study:  Skipping or jumping rope (sport)    wiki   Explore moving the rope wing through flight cycles; and moving the human wing at the end(s) of the tether wing (rope(s)). Explore both ground-based sectors and FFAWE sectors of the actions.
  • Case study:  Tug-of-War   
  • Case study:  Animals pulling plows  
  • Case study:  Trees  The deliberate nurturing of trees is nurturing kite systems. The leaves with stem tether and branch anchor are kite systems sub to the full tree; the tree is a kite system made of sub kite systems. The kite tree has its anchor: Earth. Trees slow the wind and convert wind's kinetic energy into other forms of energy to do good works. Trees seem to know how to eat other kites!  Etc. 
  • Case study: Examine the plant kingdom for natural kite systems. Explore widely distributed lift and drag of parts; look for parts that get into tension when the wind blows. Desscribe the anchor systems. Look for sub kites in the complex macro plant.  In some plants, see how they birth gliders. See the decaying afterlife matter as becoming parts of kite-anchor system; and sometimes the soil go the new kite systems. 

  • Case study:  Human hanging from a high hold.    
  • Case study:  Pendulums    
  • Case study:  Spiders on spider webs. Web-held debris. Spider webs per se. Notice the anchor system, tether system, and wing system of the involved complexes.
  • Case study:  Broom sweeping     
  • Case study:  Clotheslining    
  • Case study:  Fishing       Media: air, water, fish.  Lifter/deflector elements including at times the fish corpora. Tether set. Flow. Practical purpose.
    • Bait, lures, flies,
    • purse seiner
    • trawling
    • otter boards
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  • Case study:  Sector of alley bowling  
  • Case study:  Railed trains.  Consider the media: air and rail. Consider the tensional connections from car to car in the train. Consider the powered anchor that effects the ambient rail flow resultant. Consider the draft of air from car to car. Consider how the wheels of the trailing cars are ever deflected up upon compressing the rail as the rail is relatively flowing.
  • Case study: Piloting a surrey behind a horse or horses. Consider the horse set being a powered anchor set. Notice the tension from the horse to the surrey. Note the media of air and soil. Notice the lift following the wheels' compression of the ground.               Horse-drawn vehicles  
  • Case study: Towing or pulling or dragging, in general, seems often to posit kiting.   
  • Case study:  Find tension and probably thereabouts find kiting. 
  • Case study:  Construction's crane operating.   Note the wind limits for safe operating of the cranes. Note the limits over tether gathering and tether lengthening.
  • Case study: Optional  launch  methods on  foil pumping:  study the kiting phases in this video: HERE  "How to Foil pumping | Hydrofoil Surfing"  
  • Case study:  'Tiny wind turbine' collects energy from walker's swinging arms'  Wearable 'Wind Turbine' Gathers Energy From Walker's Swinging Arm.  Notice the arm as tether set; notice body as anchor set.
  • Case study:  Explore the kiting aspect of some trebuchets.
  • Case study:  Explore the kiting aspects of seaweed farming.
  • Case study:  The realm of mooring has some robust kiting occurring.
  • Case study:  Explore conventional helicopters; treat the rotors as a powered anchor of a kiting system; study the rotating mast as the tether set; see the passenger body as a wing being tethered. Have we a kiting system here?
  • Case study:  Flight of the FFAWE dandelion seed dispersing ... 
  • Case study:  Marlin towing fisherman's loaded hull. Video for study. Opposing wings and the tether set; air and water media. Powered anchor.
  • Case study: During embroidery there seems to be a kiting sector occurring. Pulling the line through the fabric media and air media results in deflection of the media and heat and turbulence are part of the resultant realm.
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