Kiting Gliders
Systems, tethers, anchors, towing drivers, towing vehicles,

• When the purpose is to have a glider session, the glider may be kited to altitude by various means.
• Repurposing gliders by kiting the gliders has wide opportunities with anchors varied (fixed, moving on ground, moving in air, moving on water surfaces).
• Free-flight kite gliding occurs manned and unmanned in paragliding, hang gliding, gliding parachutes, and material transport or recovery operations.
• Towing methods
  • Single effort towing
  • Multiple-effort towing
  • Stepped towing
  • Loop reversing towing
  • Phased tugging towing

• Glider High Start Tutorial.mp4
• Bungee High Start Glider: Perfecting the Balance

• v

• v

Kiting unmanned gliders, perhaps for cargo transport

• v

During the free flight of the all-canopy gliding wing or the stiffened parawing, the pilot is hung and become the primary potential energy source for kiting the wings; as the fall of the the pilot occurs, the wing resistance sets up tension in the tether set and kiting principle is functioned with the purpose of net travel through the skies in a kite-gliding experience.

These kite hang gliders may be doubly kited by being towed from ground anchors or aerial anchors like a towing powered aircraft (manned or robot).  The system without the second kiting action is a kite system itself; then tow the payload of the primary system and obtain still kiting-principle function.