Terms
- Attaching tails to wings
- Hot swapping tails
- Bags
- Blades
- Bow-tie segments
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- Challenges with any given tail system
- Cones
- Contra-rotating blades
- Cups, cup segments
- Direction of force on main wing given by the tail resultant
- Inflated airbeams
- Drogues
- Empennage
- Fish
- Landing the tail
- Launching the tail
- Laundry
- Long tails
- Mass of the tail system
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Negative kites
- Ram-air
- Rigidly coupled tails
- Rigid tails
- Rudder
- Soft tails
- Smart tails
- Spinners
- Streamers, multi-streamers,
- String-only tails
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Swivels
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Ball Bearing Swivels
Lock snap, ball bearing swivels contain highly polished stainless
steel balls in smooth, nickel-plated raceways that minimize friction.
Swivel absorbs any turn of a kite or windsock, and keeps the line
below the swivel twist free. Lubricate and keep clean for long life.
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Lock Snap Swivels
Made of stainless steel for high performance.
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Brass Snap Swivels
Keep line twist
free and easy to attach to your kite.
- Tail applications (stabilized kite wings, generate electricity,
water dropping, advertising, entertainment, visual affects, ...)
- Tail bag, tail container,
- Tail quiver
- Turbines
- Wind dudes
- Windsocks
- Yarn
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