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Windless Kiting |
- Sorts of disciplines in windless kiting:
- Performance art.
- Dance.
- Energy-production flying of AWES during wind calms.
- Launch method for hang gliders and paragliders.
- Centuries-old running of tethered wings from hand or ends of
sticks.
- Indoor kite festivals and competitions.
- Advertising using driven arch kite systems with one or more wings.
- Saving a kite system when the wind goes to calm
- Simple towing without phased tugging or step towing.
- Moving vehicles or devices as resistive set in kite system:
cars, boats, rafts, avalanche drogues, river water chutes, trains,
powered aircraft, machines,
- Moving humans or animals as resistive set in kite systems.
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- Operations without the use of radio-controls.
- Operations with the use of radio-controls.
- Operations with sensors and smart robots.
- Operations with human pilots only and without mechanical sensors
or robots.
- Very-short-tether systems
- Confined indoor spaces
- Open outdoor spaces
- Stunts
- Target of getting out much tether and obtaining significant
altitude for the working wings.
- Non-transitional wings or static form and static bridling
- Transitional wings that may change bridling and possibly even
configuration after climbing out is accomplished.
- Commercial launching of AWES for energy production purposes at
various scales.
- Commercial and recreational launching of gliders to significant
altitudes for sled glides or the catching of thermals.
- Commercial and recreational lifting of humans for observations,
skydiving, photography, wingsuit gliding, etc.
- KiteLab Ilwaco View- With regard to AWE, we found the Windless
Kite principle to be the same as step-towed human gliders. It is a
TRL-9 kite model fully validated as launching, sustained flight,
and landing methods for small AWES. It will be a challenge to
automate flight to the skill level of human masters.
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- windless kite
- windless kiting
is set to play a significant role in AWE.
- zero-wing kiting
- calm kiting
- kiting by phased tugs in calm
- indoor kiting
- Windless Kite Festivals, windless kiting events,
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persistent flight R&D will face windless conditions at times
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http://energykitesystems.net/AWEIAbackup/CKC/index.html
- phased tugging
- step-towing kite gliding
- bipodal, tripodal, or n-podal driving already-lofted kites used in
AWES during calming is a way to keep wings flying. In reverse with wind
blowing, the lines may drive cranks, ratchets, shafts, pumps, etc. to do
tertiary works or produce energy
- windless kiting history
Of course, windless kiting history is about as old as kiting; when there
is insufficient wind, then the human ran to make the kites fly; the
added dimensions of phased towing and phased tugging to give cycles of
gliding and kiting by the same wing set also must have come early as
holders of lines got tired of running and pulled or tugged the tethers
to give some apparent boost to the wing. Sharp awareness of phased
tugging for kite-based gliding cycles is something to trace in history;
notes are welcome. Such tactics to maintain AWES in lulls is
something of contemporary interest.
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Mechanical demonstrations yet to be reported:
- Straight out and then without turning then straight backwards cycles
of climbing well. Glide out straight and then climb over the same
projected line without there being a turning of the wing or wings
involved in the system. Most windless-kiting wings that attain
significant distance away from a central operating circle perform turns
in order to ready for climbing returns. Allow bridle alteration by
some means; allow mass-balance changes by some means; allow radio
control over the bridle changing or/and mass-distribution changing.
- Launching an AWES, working the AWES productively, and returning the
AWES upon wind fading to calm.
- Maintaining flight altitude of kite arch in no wind.
- Maintaining flight altitude of kite mesh in no wind.
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Studies wanted:
- Wing designs for the niche sorts of windless kiting.
- Phased tug of kite arches for significant flight sessions.
- Phased tug of kite meshes for significant flight sessions.
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