Topic Rope Drone "Bead" Units

Sept. 8,2019    Dave Santos Dave Culp decades ago conceived of "Flying Rope" on simple kite principles. Ohashi Trains and KiteLab Ilwaco's LadderMill experiments are quasi flying-rope cases. Consider an AWES flying-rope with multi-copters gripped like beads along it. Imagine the Rope-Drone flying up to dock to hot kiteplanes operating from a nearby airfield. Once docked, the copters could slide down back to the anchor. The docking point would be a weak-link to break at a safety limit-loading, freeing the kiteplane to return to its base. The multicopters would fly the rope back without surface contact. They could generate enough power with their rotors for night lighting and com needs. This sort of rope-drone tech has endless non-AWE applications, as well as new safety and security issues. Its a basis for dynamically building complex rope structures, like AWE Lattices, in the sky, over any surface type, from small land foot-prints. Open-AWE_IP-Cloud

Sept. 8, 2019     Dave Santos The simplest universal configuration seems to be a winged rope-grabber that operates somewhat like a classic Kite Messenger device, but with the capability to drive or slide in either direction along the rope, vectoring wind or thrust in any direction, and harvesting its own wind power when passive. Wings on rope beads can be simple symmetric foils to complex vectored rotors. Even simple wing beads could act as RATs, especially in opposed rotation to neighbors. Open-AWE_IP-Cloud

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