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Kite reels, line-storage devices, winches, drums, line-holding bags,
detensioners, winding guides, line-holding loops, harnesses assisting line
winding, reel house, winch station, kite-pilot station, ground station,
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Welcome to KiteReels, Here all are invited to advance safe ways and means to hold, handle, store, wind, reel, or winch the lines used in kite systems, kite-energy systems,or AWES. The focus will share line winding from other disciplines: fishing, towing, dragging, tethering, ... There are special challenges in kite systems at all scales with respect to line handling. Super tiny kite systems with extremely delicate lines invite the best of engineering. Handling multiple lines at once ever challenges. Guiding lines in large gang AWES farms can be daunting. Sharp engineering and innovation is called for many of these tasks. Dome and mesh AWES line management? Stresses and strains on handled lines? Wear and degradation during line handling? Knowing the usefulness and safety of lines during line handling? Sensors and control of lines? Much to study and discuss. This room keeps focus on the line operations. Other aspects of AWES/kite-energy systems are best faced elsewhere in other AWES Museum rooms. There may tend to be some overlap with items in the room KiteLines. Line-handling adventures to you and yours, JoeF |
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Kite Control Apparatus by Fermin T. Sada http://www.google.de/patents/US3409255 Fermin T. Sada This is mostly about bridling, but the graphic importantly tease multiple reels for the control of a kited wing. |
| John C. Gunn |
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The reels and winches used in kiting sailplanes for launch This topic is open for the study and discussion of the reels and winches used in launching sailplanes. |
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Images of reels and winches This topic thread is for posting images or links to images of reels or winches used in kiting, towing aircraft (form of kiting), towing gliders and sailplanes and hang gliders (form of kiting). Caption and commentary of the images is invited. |
| This topic thread is for the study and discussion of reels and winches used tow launching hang gliders. |
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A kite's reel is part of the kite system A moment of clarification: A kite consists of wing set, tether set, and a resistive set. The resistive set may even be seen as a second wing set. The resistive set sometimes involves a reel or winch or drum; in such case, the reel or winch or winding drum is an actual part of the "kite" --not the upper air wing part, but a part of the lower resistive assembly of the kite. A kite is a system of parts. Operating tethers on reels is part of the operating of the kite (or we often say kite system). The common abbreviation of seeing the wing as "kite" is just that, an abbreviation that suppresses the essentiality of the tether set and resistive set without which sets there is no kite. Just the wing does not make essential kite. ~ JoeF Feb. 6, 2014. |
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