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Sled Kites
For convenience and focus, we do not here include the different
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- Simple sled kites
- Super-simple sled kites
- Two-stick sled kites
- Three-stick sled kites
- Hornbeam sled kites
- Vented sled kites
- Allison sled kites
- Paper sled kites
- Plastic sheet sled kites
- Airbeamed sled kites
- Ram-air sled kites
- Soft-sled kites
- Pocket-sled kites
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Low & Slow ... little Joe hang gliding in a paraglider sled kite system |
Miscellaneous craft notes
- Vents
- Slots
- Turbulators
- Vortex generators
- Trailing edge treatments
- Leading edge treatments
- Bridling
- Side-panel designs
- Testing
- Safety
- Purposes
- Lateral slots
- Leading-edge curves and shapes
- Airfoil explorations
- Sail materials
- Spreaders: in-sail partial, in-sail full, design choices, floating,
hard-connected to spines, elastic connected to spines, pocketed, tests
and results, spreader bar, spreader, multiple spreaders, in-bridle
spreaders,
- Cut and tape
- Cut and glue
- Pocketing
- Sewn sleds
- Size
- Stability
- Specifications
- Hazardous sleds
- Safe sleds
- Venetian-blind curtain slats as spines
- Airbeams as spines
- Ram-air pockets as spines
- Splinted spars as spines
- Tensing sail using spines
- Full-length bonding of spine to sail
- Rigging sail flaps
- Spreader-less sleds
- Spreadered sleds
- Visibility issues
- Art, signage, decoration, color
- Grouping of wing elements. Vertical. Horizontal, free-flying,
trains, coteries, arches, multi-anchored, wide-base-stick anchor for
multiple elements, etc.
- Tailing sleds
- Tailless sleds
- wind-rating
- sizing
- bridle spreaders
- swivels
- Leaf-based sleds
- Line nets as foundation for making sail covers
- Complex sails for sleds
- Stretch of sail
- Creep of lines
- Oscillation behavior
- Modular sled complexes
- Drogue tails
- Split-trailing edge
- Ram-air-tube-collapse mitigations. Whisker loops? Whisker X
spreaders? Strapping-band loops? Loops of heavy monofilament
...perhaps weed-whacker line
- Taper or not
- Reverse taper or not
- Rogallo diverging struts, Lee & Darrah diverging struts,
- Stacking sleds
- Train of sleds
- Coterie of sleds
- Veering sleds
- Double canopy sled
- Single canopy sled
- Saul's American Sportsman Kite
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Videos that feature sled kites
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Plans for various sled kites
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Articles and essays featuring sled kites
- Sled Kites by George Webster in The Kiteflier, Issue
90, page 12. Allison's Polymorphic Kite, 1950, The Scott Sled,
Standard Two-Stick Sled, Hornbeam, Ed Graul, Marten Bondestam's Fan
Kite, Fluted Sled, Skybums Rainbow sled, Zammo Sled,
Stormy Weathers Winged Victory.
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Questions
- Market share for sled kites
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Terms surrounding sled kites
- flexible wing, flexible flier, spines, vents, side panels, leading
edge, training edge, leading-edge scallop, trailing-edge scallop,
scallops on both LE and TE,
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Flying sleds
- Spoiling large sleds using spoiler line
- R-C of sled kites
- Kites - Pull down a Power Sled
81 3:12 video Walk-down tactic.
Consider pulley on line.
- Two-line sledding
- Tag lines for sled
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Commercially sold sleds (miniature to large)
- HQ Invento 9.0 XXL
1:18 video
- The Radical Wrist Kite
- Worlds Apart: Mickey Amazing Pocket Kite
- Go Fly a Kite: The Konvertible Kite
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Sled variable and aspects
- Purpose
- Size
- Material
- Dimensions
- Vents
- Edge shapes
- Spars
- Cost
- Tailing or not
- Signage
- Number of spines
- Keel shapes
- Manufacturing methods
- Modularity or not
- Vent patters
- Aspect ratio
- Behavior in flight
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Explore the sled kites of Marten Bondestra
- Marten Bondestam's Fan Kite
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