Now we're talking. Technologically this is possible today.Hansen Aerosports wrote:'Fly-by-wire' single line kites with bio-mechanical thought process control...
I did once think up a wave kite that was a 3 line kite where the lines were joined to a leash line to a ring around your wrist.tautologies wrote:Now we're talking. Technologically this is possible today.Hansen Aerosports wrote:'Fly-by-wire' single line kites with bio-mechanical thought process control...
I'm having a bit of a time trying to imagining this contraption. Sounds great though.ronnie wrote:I did once think up a wave kite that was a 3 line kite where the lines were joined to a leash line to a ring around your wrist.tautologies wrote:Now we're talking. Technologically this is possible today.Hansen Aerosports wrote:'Fly-by-wire' single line kites with bio-mechanical thought process control...
It was a flat helium inflated wing with a carbon spar with plastic ends which would bend either up or down and had a nose line and the other 2 lines went to a bridle on a line joining the plastic spar end to the trailing edge.
Idea was when you crashed, the kite would float downwind fast and take off automatically and fly to a position overhead if you just held onto the ring (or you could let the ring slide over your hand to release it). Didn't matter which way up the kite was.
Then you pulled the lines down to get to the bar above where the lines joined and started flying it again.
Are you talking about something that'stautologies wrote: ...
Me and a buddy were thinking of adding some spars to the TE of a kite that will extend the foil of the kite, and that will work in different wind ranges. The spars would basically extend the low end, while not being in the way while the wind picks up.
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KYLakeKiter wrote:Since we are allowed to be unrealistic here, I am surprised nobody has mentioned the thin plastic bladders that give our kites structure. (Ram airs excluded of course). If there were a way to provide the flexible structure needed without being dependent on bags of air that will surely leak at some point in their useful life.
In the real world, I am sure we can expect bladder and valve (and the adhesives between the two) technologies to improve.
Yep, I would in fact say all car tires are tubeless todayWestozzy wrote:KYLakeKiter wrote:Since we are allowed to be unrealistic here, I am surprised nobody has mentioned the thin plastic bladders that give our kites structure. (Ram airs excluded of course). If there were a way to provide the flexible structure needed without being dependent on bags of air that will surely leak at some point in their useful life.
In the real world, I am sure we can expect bladder and valve (and the adhesives between the two) technologies to improve.
there are tubeless tires...
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