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| July 21, 2020, post by Dave
Santos Tether Weight and Altitude Gordon, Good effort on you latest calculations; its a hard problem to fully resolve all the details. Tallak asked about how tether weight at low angle is shared, and yes, the anchor-point does carry proportionally more of the tether weight for the top point, a load which of course is not burdensome at the surface, but there is more sag tension between the points proportional to "rigger angles". The practical way to master max altitude outside the scope of your starting assumptions is to add lift in kite-train stages along the tether rather than depend on a single kite, for multiple reasons, explaining why the kite-train altitude record is roughly double the single-kite record. |