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Kite Energy Fundamentals and Applications

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Kite Systems Glossary
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z             Other glossaries of interest

  • K1  Kiting giving birth to flight from early ages to Wright Brothers' kiting.
     
  • K2  Jalbert, Allison, Wanner, Rogallo, Barish, Paresev, towed manned kiting,  traction sports, kiting festivals,  free-flight manned kiting (i.e. governable parachuting, skydiving, hang gliding), competitions, parties, tricks, art, celebrations, ... Authors: Will Yolen (IKA and Worldwide Friends through Kiteflying), Robert Ingraham, Joe Faust (K.I.T.E.S.A., S-SA, L&S, HGW), Dan Poynter (HG), Dave Santos, Dave Culp, Valerie Govig, and more...
     
  • K3     ~~~ AWE Era ~~~  
    The space race Sputnik-(1957)-charged introduced a synergy that resulted in increased manned kiting activity by NASA and associated companies and individuals, including hgh-speed moving moorings of tethered lifting bodies. This brought in a run of patents over the Wanner wing, Rogallo wing, Barish sailwing, Jalbert parafoil, and many versions of  what was then termed paraglider which wrapped flexible sail over frames (unlike the later use of the term paraglider). The free-flight governable parachutes increased in importance. The severe kiting in the Paresev program included release-for-glide weight-shift control (move payload mass relative to attitude of wing). Such kiting gave impetus to expanding uses of large kites, both with moving moorings and free-flight kites. Children of such investments and experience may be seen in the surge of hang gliding, traction-kiting sports, the 1970s AWECS bump, and even much of 2000s professional AWECS race. It may be said that a huge new golden age of kiting K2 was birthed by the communications of Domina C. Jalbert and Francis M. Rogallo moved along by political pressures and competitions punctuated with the need for freedom expressed in recreational manned kiting found in Igor Bensen, aqua-kiting, hang gliding, and gliding sky-diving. It is suspected that K2 has been blossoming to be a diamond Age of Tethered Aviation and Kite Energy that will be a deserving winner of the K3 name; founders of K3 will be viewable in part in the AWEIA international's coming Founder's Circle collection of over 600 persons,  certainly less than the full community that will expand to tens of thousands.    The neat thing is that K1 and K2 remain alive and well, even while K3 is being nursed by centers in  Belgium, Ireland, England, Netherlands, Russia, China, USA, Nigeria, Germany, France, Mexico, Syria, Nigeria, India, France, and many other corners of earth...   Use kites to do special works including the making of useful stored energy or energy sent into energy-distribution systems:   K3 ~~AWE Era~~               M2776
    "A tangible kite energy case is how kite boarding has replaced water skiing using a ski-boat"  Source.


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  • kaizen            wiki
  • kagome lattice        wiki    |  trihexagonal tiling   |
  • KAP    
  • Katmostat    License and notice: CC IP notice- "Katmosat" is hereby reserved as a trademark TM for the Kite Power Cooperative to administer.  November 20, 2013.  AirborneWindEnergy10684 
    Kite Atmosats (Katmosat)

     
  • KAYAKITE        wing for kiting kayaks
    • McConnachie's Kayakite        Designed by Phillip McConnachie      
    • Kayakite   by New Tech Kites
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  • KCU    See also KSU       kite control unit         KCS   kite control system
  • KHam (ham radio by kite system aerial use)       See also: antenna
  • KE-carousel     KitEnergy carousel method    See Kitenergy (notice no other e_
  • KECS    kite energy conversion systems.    See also: TWECS where KECS are a subset.
  • KEM   kite-energy machine   KEMs   kite energy machines
  • KEP, KEPs    kite-energy producer, kite-energy producers
     
  • KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System)       
    • AWES6478
    • ... a system like a RAT
    • ... a system in water or fluid or air that mines the kinetic energy of an item.
    • Sometimes misapplied when the recovery is actually a conversion of potential energy into stored energy; when an aircraft is descending, then such descent might be used to drive turbine blades.
       
  • KES     Kite-energy system   
     
  • KES demonstrator
  • Kestrel Autopilot    (TM)     Offered.     Kestrel Autopilot System (KAS)     "Autonomous Autopilot and Ground Control For Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"     [[This mention is not a recommendation of fitness for AWE.]]
  • KEU   kite energy unit     (cousins in other fields: SEU solar energy unity; WEU wind energy unit

     

  • Kevlar      
    • "Nobody uses Kevlar for HG-tow applications nowadays. One of its big problems is that UV chews it up.   The Spectra and Samson Amsteel that all of the operations with half a clue are using is just fine - mostly thanks to the sailing industry."       Tad Eareckson
    • [Dyneema® SK75 synthetic fiber is used in Samson Amsteel rope. HMPE fiber. ]
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  • KE-yoyo       Spelling in presentation, page 5.    Yo-yo method (power phase in reel-out; cost phase in real-in during changed tension from changed lifting-body changes).
     
  • kFarm by kPower™          use1
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  • KFm airfoils  Kline Fogleman airfoils
     

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  • KG-farm, KG farm
     
  • KGR KiteGen Research, s.r.l, a corporation
     
  • KGS  kite generator system
  • KG yoyo, KG-yoyo        This uses the reel method where traction phase is a reel-out generating phase and where the reel-in recovery stage is an energy-costing phase; the gain is approximately the difference between the the traction phase and recovery phase.  Recovery phase is lowered in cost by reducing the tension of the tether via reduction of the lift and drag of the tethered airfoil (kite).
  • KiderWind
  • killability            Spontaneous Launch Risk and "Killability"
     
  • "killable" kite       [Consider non-killable kite rigs.]
    Consider methods of stopping a kite system's operations.
     
  • killer kite
     
    • Killer kites: Three types of killer kites are recognized in kiting. One type of killer kite has the task of taking out of flight another kite; such is in sport and also in practical kite energy operations to take out a kite that is fugitive. Another killer kite regards the notorious kites that cause death and injury; some nations' kite festivals have been marred or cancelled because of killer kites; governments have gotten involved to halt or slow the effect of killer kites. The kite's glassed lines or the kite's metallic base material have resulted in far too many deaths and injuries. <ref>[ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2978988.stm  Pakistan tackles killer kites.]</ref> Death by kites is part of the reason the world knows this kite type. Another type of "killer kite" are those that simply deeply astound viewers and users with some unique exciting quality.<ref>[ http://www.thefunctionkey.com/2011/03/killer-kites-by-daniel-frost/  killer kites by daniel frost.]</ref>
       
  • kill line
  • kilogram is 1000 grams.   Units of mass.    wiki         Dimensional analysis: M for mass.
  • kilowatt              power unit
  • kilowatt-hour per day        power unit
  • kilowatt-hour         energy unit        wiki
     
  • Kim                        Jong Chul Kim
     
  • kinematics       wiki  
    • metachronal rhythm
    • synchronous
    • intermediate kinematics
    • rowing
    • spinning
    • rolling
    • crawling
    • walking
    • maneuvering
    • gliding
    • flapping
    • lift-based
    • drag-based
    • twisting
    • bending
    • contracting
    • relaxing
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  • kinematic constraints
  • kinetic art
  • kinetic energy      wiki  
  • kinetic-energy kite         Ref3
  • kinetic-energy storage
  • kinetic kite       VidDesignPlan                       Yukio Akiyama
  • kinetics
  • Kingfisher™ Aerostat          A kytoon product or kite-balloon product.  More balloon than kite.  Southern Balloon Works, a division of Aerial Products Corporation.
  • king of kites, king kite
  • kink         See also fold
  • kink angle        See related fold line and fold angle
  • KISS principle         wiki       KIS   "keep it simple"  Keep it simple, Simon.  Keep it simple, stupid!    But Einstein cautions not to have it simpler than is needed!
     
  • kite   is the default term for just the wing part of a complete kite; once a wing is conceived as part of a complete kite, then the wing alone---which is not a kite (not complete, just the wing)--is frequently said to be the "kite" as default term, even though the background unsaid is that there is for a complete kite a necessary bridle-tether-resistive-anchor assembly needed to be (fully) kite.  This defaulting regarding just the wing goes into the geometrical world where just the format of the quadrilateral adopts the word "kite" in the mathematical and art world.  Anyone using kites as a flying machine has the wing part, tether part, and the cause of resistance that brings on the necessary tension in the tether part in order to have "kite" (complete).  That is, wing alone does not make the flying-machine "kite".      K=(w,t,r)
     
    • '''Kites''' are fluid craft composed of wings coupled by tether to a resisting source. When the wings are bridled effectively, and a net flow reacts with the wings and resisted by the kite's necessary resisting source (anchor, mooring, etc.) then a resulting lift and drag results to effect sustained flight in the fluid. Frequently, the wing of a kite is called "kite" while a wing alone is not the full kite. A wing alone might be a glider, but in itself is not a kite. A kite might consist of many wings, many tethers, and even many resisting elements. The stream flow where kiting actions occur may be artificial flow, natural flow, or apparent flow during a falling gliding kiting. The anchoring resisting the wing's lift and drag may be moving in many ways (earth rotation, human hand, tugging boat, another wing, kite-boarder's body, a falling payload, or a moving fishing pole. Fluid choices are not limited to air or water, but those are the most common fluids where one finds kites.

       See: "A kite is _______"   "_____ is a kite."   "_____ are kites."
      What is a kite?   What is a kite system?
      • A passively-autonomous AWES [[Ed: kite system]] can be formally understood as a coupled phonon-graviton automaton acting under quantum computational control.  ~DaveS AirborneWindEnergy/message/8971
      • kite is a captive aëroplane

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  • kite   What are kites that have default names to fit particular applications of the kite: paraglider, gliding parachute, parasail, governable parachute, kite hang glider, hang glider (of kite sort that has a tether to payload), slope soarer (when with tether to payload), glide wing (when with tether to payload), glider (when kiting is occurring), ...
    • David Barish: "if you want a wing, you need the lowest possible porosity. I determined the length of the lines came from the experience of kite-flyers who already knew all there was to know on this subject." Sourced interview. His sailwing was arranged into a kite format with kite lines and himself as the resistive payload; it  was a kite; he ground kited it and then glided his kite. The wing's airfoil was patented as "glide wing" but the wing materialized for a kite use for kite gliding which he called "slope soaring."
  • "kite" in many languages: http://subvision.net/sky/planetkite/europe-matrix.htm  
    http://subvision.net/sky/planetkite/


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  • Kite4Energy   
  • kite accidents
  • kite advertising      See advertising  for full discourse on many dimensions and aspects.
  • kite aerodynamics
  • Kite Ag, KiteAg, kite systems in agricultural operations and processes
  • kite altitude
  • kite anchor
  • kite anemometry
  • kite angel 
     
  • kite angle
  • kite applications

  • kite arch   or arch kite or kite arches   AWES7291       Examine trivial cases and complex cases. Examine control issues, OSP issues, launching and landing issues.  AWEification of kite arches; ground gen kite arch systems versus flygen kite arch systems; also consider hybrid groundgen-flygen systems. Examine kite arches as lifters as well as actuators.
    Sorts:
          1. Dependent on wind direction
          2. Omnidirectional (not-dependent on wind directions)

          Use in kite firefighting: M140     See differently: kite trees, kite coteries, kite arches, kite clusters, kite trains and kite stacks    Notice kite arches that are rotating ribbons and those that are not rotating sails.    Notice kite arches made of elemental flying units. Notice kite arches that are very wide wings.        AWES5895   AWES5943

    • KAplan1   
    • Notice the rotating ribbon kite is a kite arch.   Skybow is one product showing this type.
    • [ ] Yet to confirm is a Kite Lines article showing early rotating ribbon.  Innovations: the Arch Ribbon of Étienne Veyres of France, by Gérard Clément and Pierre Fabre with an historical commentary by Valerie Govig;  Kite Lines - Vol. 09 No. 3 (Fall 1992)  "Arch-kite without lines"  http://tuulelohed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38
    • http://w1.neuronnexion.com/dferment/ukduodar.htm
       
    • See George Peters Windbow. "non-rotating"
       
    • See rotating ribbon kites with and without battens.
    • kite arch logic
      • crosswind anchoring is such a powerful inherent-stability factor.  Circa 2012.
      • Another way of summarizing kite arch logic is that crosswind anchoring is such a powerful inherent-stability factor, that it fundamentally enables far larger more powerful unit AWES, particularly within a given land footprint and airspace volume.  Circa 2012.
      • Lifting WECS with kite arches is an ongoing experimental activity that began at WSIKF2009.
    • Types of kite arch AWES
      • pumping crosswind arch using multiple vertical wing units
      • flip-wing segments
      • AoA oscillators
      • Lifter for hung WECS
      • ?
      • ?
    • kite arch conjectures
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      • ?
    • kite arch architecture
    • kite arch train     
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  • kite array    Distinguish from kite-farm. Distinguish from a unity.        AWE4728
    • Unit wings in a kite array or kite matrix are "kixels" (inspired by the pixel of a displayed digital image).
    • kixel, kixels             
      • Unit element kite in kite array (like a pixel of an image display) ..
        A genesis of the term may be seen from the suggestion of Rod Read on Sept. 27, 2011: "
        A kite array with piezoelectric multilayer bending actuators. The array is going
        to be 3d. Each kite will have one or more piezoelectric multilayer bending actuators.
        The top layer of the array will be set out and addressed as per VGA (yes video)
        standards. e.g.,  a printed cut set of micro kite ribbons glued side by side
        with..."  And then  Dec. 9, 2011: "I'd suggested before addressing of kites in an array can be done with VGA methods."
              That was followed by Dave Santos' comment, "
        Your VGA idea is good, it is even possible to make a giant color TV screen in the sky out of kite pixels; would that not be cool?" and then term creation originated by Dave Santos of KiteLab Group:  AWES5662      
        Article development
        Meditation:
        PixelOnWayToKixelForKiting        [ ] Discuss

         
      • an identical addressable kite unit, one of many strung along rope loadpaths in matrix-arrays, in order to make up a "metakite"
      • Sensors in a kixel may report the conditions of that unit.
      • Controllers may face the needs of a particular kixel.
      • Maintenance crews may focus on a particular kixel.
      • See related terms: AWES5992
      • Right On, Roddy, we are on to a major mega-AWES concept here, and the VGA analogy is apt.
              We can even use Edo-style kite bridling to allow each kixel's AoA to be fine-tuned in flight. What you can't see in all the Edo pictures is the cool little fairlead address-map rigger's plate, at the common bridle point, that allows every part of the Edo to be individually tension-tuned without futzing for the right line. Of course, presetting our Kixels in a tied-off mode is still programming.
      • Fractal Kixel "hairnet" lifter kite set   by Rod Read
      • "cathedrals" made of arched string and rag vaults and domes        AWES6749
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  • kite art
  • kite artistiry
  • kite artist, kite artists
  • kite assassins
     
  • kite assist, kite-assist          AWES5616    1.   Is a given operation amendable to kite-assist?   To each operation could be asked if it is amenable to kite assist.  This questioning is one source of finding tasks for kite systems. Then there are operations that may be born only because of kite systems.   2. _____
     
  • kite assistant
     
  • Kite as Teacher, kiting as teacher,
     
  • kite as tool, kites as tools, kites as utilitarian objects, work kites, work kite systems, energy kite systems, kite energy systems,
     
  • kite attachment, kite attachments, kite-attachment systems, kite-system attachment, kite-systems attachments
     
  • kite autonomy          Thesis1of2007
  • kite bar
  • kite balloon
    • Kite Balloons   KiteBalloons
    • kytoon
    • LTA kite systems
    • Notice that even a "spherical balloon" tethered employs some kiting dynamics, hence some of the stability challenges of later 1700s French balloons.
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  • kite-based power plants    KBPP
  • kite-based systems
  • kite-based technology
  • Kite based wind interceptors         Phrase used by Robert Copcutt.
  • Kite-based wind turbine    by Rod Read        Daisy.    Towered form with kites as blades.  Echo of sailed windmills.   daisy.flv
     
  • kite-based wind-power systems
     
  • kite belt kit, kite-pilot's belt kit   [[ideas are invited from all]]
     


  • kited aerials           kite-lifted aerials     See antenna.     See KHam (ham radio by kite system aerial use)  ;   kite-antenna methods  ;  classic kite-antenna methods

     

  • Kite energy blogs
  • kite board, kiteboard
  • Kiteboarder Magazine, The Kiteboarder Magazine
  • kite boat                            kiteboat.com         GeneralLink
  • kiteboating, kite boating, kite-boating
  • kiteboating videos
  • kite boats
     
  • KiteBoat, kiteboat     Boats moved by the wind energy capture from a kite system use either the tug methods or the conversion to electricity which electricity is then used to drive a hydro propeller. In both methods, the systems are energy kite systems and belong to AWE.  The tug method occurs in microAWE, miniatureAWE, toyAWE, sportAWE, residentialAWE, commercialAWE, and utilityAWE. When the tug method reduces the use of coal and oil, then such notes are especially welcome  KiteTug and KiteSailTM   and KiteShipTM  are some of the main players in commercialAWE that use wind energy through kite systems using the tug method for boats and ships to save on use of oil-based fuels. Differently is the KitVes project that feels a freedom to convert wind energy captured through an AWECS that converts wind energy to electricity that is then used for on-vessel works including driving the boat or ship in directions it wishes to go.  Benjamin Franklin's legendary story of a pond tug of his body by kite may be an example of either sportAWE,  toyAWE, or recreationalAWE. Miniature boats using miniature kites or kytoons example miniatureAWE tug method.  Envisioned is a utilityAWE kiteboat where the kites or kytoons tug a barge that is saturated with hydro turbines that make electricity (perhaps to be used to make and compress hydrogen from water; the hydrogen would be transported ultimately to work sites).  Anne Quéméré is exploring a second type kiteboat; her OceanKite effort to cross the Pacific Ocean was aborted; now her boat designer is going forward on another kiteboat. See her new blog on her planned trip from Peru to Tahiti.

  • Kitebot, kitebots,   See:   KiteBot.org
     
  • KiteBot.org     Jeremy Calvert.  
     
  • kite buddy, kite buddies   Types: person, robot, device (active or passive)  AWES7390
  • kite buoy    
  • kite behavior
  • kite-borne sensors, kite-borne instruments, kite-borne devices     Art1
  • kite business, kite businesses
     
  • kite cable
  • kite cabling
  • kite camera          KAP     Camera positions in kite environments.   Camera at mooring or resistive set.  Camera on tether set. Camera on wings. Camera on ground. Stills. Motion. Purposes.
  • kite kamp, kite camp, KiteKamp, Austin Kitekamp, Austin AWEfest,
     
  • kite carousel  
     
  • kite car  (various types)   | KiteCarGENERAL  |  KiteCarIMAGESgeneral   |       |
    • Type 1: The kite system's resistive set is a car or chariot or cart. E.g., kitebuggying, kite yachting, kite shipping, etc. where the buggy or the yacht, or boat, or ship, or railed vehicle, etc. are the cars in the kite systems.   KC1a  |  Pocock  |
    • Type 2:  The kite system may have a car that travels up and/or down one of the kite system's tethers. Such car might be released for free-fall or free-flight or subsequent powered flight. This type includes kite-line-messenger devices.  
    • Type 3: A car or truck or automobile that is dedicated to kites, kite activity, or services to kite systems. One embodiment of this type is a personal automobile dedicated to carrying kite gear to sites for performance, research, or testing.
    • Type 4:  An aerial cableway that is kite supported may have cars on aerial lines that travel short or long distances.
    • Type 5: Within a kite's wing, there may be tiny or larger cars on line or guide rails that move under passive or active controls to fulfill various functions within the kite's wing.
    • Type 6:  Within kite airborne architecture, there may be pathways whereupon a car may be driven by people or robots.
    • Type 7:  When a kite's wing mimics the figure of a car, then one has a type of figurative kite: kite car.    See examples in the collection of images.  KC7a   |    
    • Type 8:  Joseph S. Kite and his inventive car.... maybe this is a Kite car.  See his 1834 patent
    • Type 9:  ?  
       
  • kite cart     kiteCart           kite carting
  • kite chariot
  • KiteChariot
  • KiteChip
     
  • kite city
    • A city fully welcoming kite flying may be referred to as a "kite city."
    • A city of people living in the sky because of the kiting principle flying the city structure is a kite city.  We have been covering such kite cities in kiting literature.   Then later Tomas Saraceno gives focus on kite cities through his Solar Bell project for the new port being built in the Netherlands.
    • Tomas Sareceno's project:    Art1  |  Brochure  |  Project  |  Artist  |  ImagesGeneral  |  His webstie |
    • The name simply of a city, perhaps not even related to the flying kites, but perhaps for a naming after a person with the last name of "Kite."

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  • "kite cloud" methods
  • kite collection,
    • kite collections
    • kite collecting
    • kite collecting guy
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  • kite collective
  • kite collisions, kite collisions
  • kite command center
  • Kite Committee of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • kite community, kite communities,
  • kite control center
  • kite control engineer
  • kite control pod
  • kite-control problem
  • kite-control solutions
  • kite control systems
     
  • kite clusters       
    See differently: kite trees, kite coteries, kite arches, kite clusters, kite trains and kite stacks. And kite cloud.
     
  • kite coteries   See differently: kite trees, kite coteries, kite arches, kite clusters, kite trains and kite stacks
     
  • kite courses
     
  • kite craft      Many sites
     
  • KiteCrane      kite crane      KiteKrane    
  • kite crashes
  • kite crawler
  • kite crazy       "tako kichi"     Ref1     M480 
  • kite curriculum
  • KiteCurtain
  • kite curtain
  • KiteCycle
    • Recall Bob Wills
    • Recall a patent on wing combined with motorcycle
    • Recall early aviation bicycled wings
    • http://www.bofunk.com/video/4095/kite_cycle_crash.html   Video of crash of kite cycle
    •  Kitecyle, a company that is recycling old kite.       Consider KiteRecycle.   
    • Cycling on lines held by kite system
    • Two or three lined kite in no wind kept up by a cycling effort. See Faust and also Tri-tether by Santos for putting energy into a wing set from ground effort.
       
  • Kite day, kite week, kite month, kite occasion, kite days
    • story
    • dedication of a day or time period
    • education-setting contstruct
    • school's special day
    • video: Selected Reading, Kite Day.mov    2:06
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    • v
    • v
       
  • kite decorating      Decorate kite system wings, lines, anchors, pilots, helpers, ...    Kite-system decorating.   Decorate for safety, celebration, advertising, identification, airspace traffic control,
     
  • kite design

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  • kite designing methods    play, hit-and-miss, random, tweaking,  iterative, scientific,
     
  • kite design software
  • kite-designing tools
  • kite-design tools
     
  • kite dock, kite docking,  dock,
  • kite-do tank     See distinct kite-think tank.
     
  • kite-down situation        For any cause during kiting, when the kite system is down and not flying, then there is a "kite-down" situation.
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  • kite driven energy system
  • Kite-Driven Lever  (KDL)
  • kite-driven string tripod   June 2009: "Now able to turn a crank with a kite driven string tripod, 3 phase shaft power"  Dave Santos
  • kited wind turbine
  • kite dynamics
  • kite-eating tree  
    • kite system materials decayed into soil that is being nutrition source for a tree
    • trees that seem to grab kite system wings and hold the wings tightly. Such trees are mentioned millions of times over each year around the world.  
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  • kite electrified bicycle    [Bicycle's batteries are charged by a kite power system during rests.]
  • kite electrified car
     
  • kite-electrified powered hang glider [Batteries of a foot-launched powered hang glider are charged via a kite power system prior to launch. In one system, the very hang glider unmanned is used in crosswind power cycles to generate electricity to charge the batteries of the powered hang glider; when such system is fully carried aloft with the pilot, then cross continent flights would be possible in multiple hops. Challenging cross-ocean flying such charged powered hang gliders has been envisioned.]
     
  • kite electricity
  • KiteElectricity
  • kite-energized home
    • home that dominantly uses energy provided by kite-energy systems; such a home might be energized by a wide-area grid which itself is energized by kite-energy systems. Or such a home could be independent and off-grid.
    • A second notion is that the people of the home have high kite-related interests that motivate the people therein to live and work energetically and perhaps enthusiatically.
       
  • Kiteenergy  is a generic compound used to refer to energy concerns of kite or kiting, both in the energy felt in sport's use of power kites as well as energy obtained by a kite's conversion of the kinetic energy of a flying kite.  
  • Kite-energy applications    |   Put kite systems to work to fulfill tasks and purposes.
  • Kite Energy Associations
  • Kite-energy fundamentals    What is a kite?   What is the kiting principle?   Kites in in any fluid (e.g., water, air, plasma, soil, sand, gravel, light, ).  Kite as a combine of resistive set, tether set, and wing set.
  • KiteEnergy is a name of a Yahoo! group.   http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/KiteEnergy
  • KiteEnergy is a title of folders in various web sites.
  • KiteEnergy.com    is a domain held and parked by Wayne German, a kite-energy trailblazer
     
  • Kite Energy Journal   Published by KiteEnergySystems:  Kite Energy Journal (KEJ) is an international forum for the dissemination of research into, and applications of, kite systems put to work.  Papers published in Kite Energy Journal have undergone peer review to ensure originality, relevance, and timeliness. The journal thus provides a worldwide, regular, and comprehensive update on kite energy.    KEJ is presently distributed throughout the pages of EnergyKiteSystems.net and its associated open research forum AirborneWindEnergy. 
    Authors may submit their papers to Editor@EnergyKitesystems.net  
     
  • KiteEnergy.org
  • KiteEnergy.net
  • Kite Energy Community
  • kite-energy farming      See also: Energy-Kite Farms
  • Kite-Energy Farms Association (tm).   KEFA is a non-incorporated association, a member of AWEIA International.
  • Kite-Energy Fraternity
  • Kite-Energy Industry
     
  • kite-energy pioneer
  • kite-energy trailblazer   One that blazes a trail to guide others; a pathfinder; An innovative leader in a field.                         Soaren
     
  • Kite energy methods (KEMs) 
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  • Kite Energy Sorority
     
  • KiteEnergy.net is showing a notice: "Services for this domain have been discontinued" In year 2007: 1 page from May 07, 2008 was robots.txt    For some while, the domain was being monetized with general links fully apart from kiting.  At some discontinued time, the following phrase was involved: "kiteenergy.net is your first and best source for information about kiteenergy. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest."  http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=KITEENERGY.NET
    May 2012, the KiteEnergy.net and .org has been registered and used by KiteEnergySystems

  • KiteEnergy.biz   was available on May 2, 2010

  • KiteEnergy.info  was available on May 2, 2010

  • KiteEnergy.org  was available on May2, 2010   In May 2012 this domain was registered by KiteEnergySystems

  • kite-energy business.
     
  • KiteEnergy.Com and  Soaren and Soaren Financial and Soaren.Com   These are trade names of Wayne German, AWE visionary and consultant.   See Tethered Aviation   The domain KiteEnergy.Com is being parked as of May 2, 2010; Created on: 23-Feb-2006.   Similar site: KiteEnergySystems.net   where kite-energy matters are in high focus.
     
  • kite-energy community
  • kite-energy commerce
  • kite-energy consortium
  • kite-energy conference
  • kite-energy economics
  • kite-energy finance
     
  • Kite Energy Handbook      --product concept supplied temporarily by KiteEnergySystems.net
     
  • kite-energy initiative
  • kite-energy investing
  • kite-energy knowledge coordinator
  • kite-energy opportunities
  • kite-energy opportunity
  • kite-energy potentials
  • kite-energy research
  • kite-energy solution

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  • kite-energy systems   kite-energy system   KiteEnergySystems  KES 
    KiteEnergySystems is a trade name of publisher Joe Faust. http://KiteEnergySystems.net  is alternate domain directed to EnergyKiteSystems.net   to emphasize the "energy" gained for use in special works from kite systems. 
     
  • kite-energy system labor   KESL     The people working to design, make, install, maintain, and operate KES form the "labor" of the technology; the variety of skills needed is a factor in bringing KES to wide use.
     
  • kite-energy technology
  • kite-energy topics
  • kite-energy unit KEW.    (cousins in other fields: SEU solar energy unit; WEU wind energy unity)
     
  • kite engine
  • kite engineer
  • kite engineering
  • kite ephemera         http://www.drachen.org/collections
  • kite experiment
  • kite factory
  • kite farm      [ 2003, BMatthews]     Many energy kite systems in one area are a kite farm.
  • kite farms are farms that grow bamboo and reeds for making kites.
  • kite farms are farm that breed kites (birds)
     
  • Kite-energy farms or energy-kite farms have a collection of relatively independent AWES; however, control and communications may integrate the individual units for energy smoothing, airspace control purposes, and other matters.     See also Energy-Kite Farms Association (EKFA).

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  • kite farm topology, kite farm topologies, kite farms' topologies, kite farm architecture, kite farms architecture,
  • KiteFence
  • kitefest
  • kite festival, kite festivals  
  • KiteFi™ and Kitellite™ and Trademark Notice
  • kite field
  • KiteField
  • KiteField AirSpace
  • kite figures or kite patterns in archeology   
  • kite finding, kite recovery, kite rescue,
  • Kitefishing  kite fishing
     
  • kiteflying
  • kite fold, kite folding, quick kite folding, how to fold a kite 
  • Kite Foilboarding  
  • kite folk     M385
  • kite formation flying
  • Kite For Sail, company has been full subsumed by Pacific Power Sails, which see.
  • kite for sail
  • kite for water pumping
  • kite frame, kite frames
    • Snelson calls 2 struts the "kite frame,"    Not a tensegrity by Snelson.
    • Kite frames more generally are from one or more struts.
    • Kite frame of a two strut Scott Sled kite have the two struts as ribs of the airfoil that forms upon kiting action.
    • Eddy kite or Malay kite or cross kite has two struts that touch, assuming straightness for strut. Explore alternatives.
    • kite frame technology and craft
  • kite fundraiser.    Have a kite event that raises money or goods for a certain cause
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  • v

  Ugo Bardi and Massimo Ippolito founded the trademark of "KiteGen".   Later a distinct school project named its project with Kitegen, but without reduction of the priority of the trademarking.  The continued use of the innovative trademark does not get removed by another's use for a school project at a different university.   See: M2773

Further point for history: 
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If you allow me a little note on this point, I remember that I had proposed the name "kitegen" to Massimo Ippolito a few years ago. Before, he had called his idea "KiWiGen" ("KIte WInd GENerator) - which sounded like something made in New Zealand or sold in the vegetable market. Ippolito agreed with me and from then on we started using that name. At that time, Mr. Fagiano and his coworkers at the Politecnico di Torino probably didn't even know that such a thing as AWE existed.

Unfortunately, neither myself nor Ippolito placed a copyright on the name, so I see now that people are fighting for the rights of the name. Which is all right, after all, what is in a name? That which we call kitegen, by any other name, would fly so nice. Also, a kitegen is a kitegen is a kitegen.....     ~~UB     Dec. 22, 2010,  M2754

"DISTINCTION:   "The name “KiteGen” has been coined at Politecnico di Torino, well before the foundation of KiteGen Research s.r.l., and it has been the name of the first research project, funded by Regione Piemonte and coordinated by Politecnico di Torino, aimed to investigate high-altitude wind energy using power kites."  ~~ Lorenzo Fagiano in his Ph.D. thesis, which see.
   

  • KiWiGen        M73     (Kite Wind Generator)        KiWi Gen
    Mentioned in http://www.drachen.org/journals/journal22/Journal22-entire.pdf
    See also: http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/pdf/other_res02_ippolito.pdf
  • KiWiGen Carousel      , circa 2003  forward.  See: http://energykitesystems.net/KiteGen/2003meeting56pages.pdf   A high focus is on some proprietary software for controls.
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  • KiteGen    trademark of Massimo Ippolito      Kite Gen®
     
     
    Kite Gen Research s.r.l.  Kite Gen  kitegen      kite-gen      kite generator 
    KiteGen Stem, KiteGen Carousel
     
  • "The name “KiteGen” has been coined at Politecnico di Torino, well before the foundation of KiteGen Research s.r.l., and it has been the name of the first research project, funded by Regione Piemonte and coordinated by Politecnico di Torino, aimed to investigate high-altitude wind energy using power kites."  Lorenzo Fagiano in his Ph.D. thesis, which see.    [[Priority for the trademark KiteGen™ actually seems to belong to Massimo Ippolito.]]
     
  • KiteGen Research  (corporation)      home          Who?       See: KiteGen
    Wang Seng Chee, Marcello Corongiu, Guido Ferretti, Massimo Ippolito, Gian Mauro Maneia, Mario Milanese, Riccardo Renna, Ivan Sergio, Franco Taddei, Aldo Trinchero, Leonello Zaquini
     
  • KiteGen AeroNavy   (two-kite travel free-flight).   Aerobrake and upper kite mine wind differentia. This is like kiteboarding two-body dynamic. See: Dale C. Kramer .   See: Richard Miller, 1967, Without Visible Means of Support.    See KGmsg1430     

 

  • kite-generated electricity      or kite electricity  or kitricity
  • kite generated hydrogen (that could then be used to make electricity)
  • KiteGenerator  kitegenerator
  • kite generator system (KGS)      
  • kite generators
  • kite gift, kite gifts.       See cousin: Gift Kites.
  • Kite gods, kitegod, kitegods    ... (not to compete with the God of kites)
    • Who has been consider a "kite god" or "kitegod"?
    • The term has been used for non-kite-world matters.
    • In sport kiting, some athletes are considered kite gods.
    • In historical kiting, there seems to be some persons that sit on Mount Olympus with their kite contributions. 
    • Some people declare themselves as kite gods.
    • Some people have been acclaimed by others as kite gods.

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  • kite glossary
  • Kite-Grass Hybrid Energy Farm  (July 2012, Austin, Texas, USA)      AWES6698 
     
  • kiteham, kite ham, kite ham radio operator, ham radio operator using kited aerials or antenna for sending and receiving radio signals.  See: KHame, antenna,     Note: A separate arena is the control of kite systems by use of radio waves where the kite system is operated by sensors, radio signals, reporting sensors, etc.
     
  • kite-Hapa
  • kite harmonics
  • kite harness       GeneralStudy
     
  • kite heaven
  • kite heights
  • Kite Hill  or   kite hill
    • in Los Angeles, California.   Mount Washington apparently has a second name.
    • A hill that may be familiar to local kitists that is good for kit flying or kite hang glider flying. "Let's go to Kite Hill today."
    • Name of a web site and company that makes artisanal nut-milk-based cheeses.  Parent company is Lyrical Foods.   [ ] Inquiring about genesis of the name.
    • wiki/Kite_Hill,_Laguna_Niguel,_California
    • http://www.yelp.com/biz/kite-hill-park-san-francisco  Kite Hill Park in San Francisco, California

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  • kite hummer
  • kite hydrogen
     
  • Kite images      KiteImages
  • Kite Imagineering                AirborneWindEnergy/message/9819
  • kite information            Information held by a person or machine at a particular time and place about kites or a kite is kite information. Kite information may be adequate or not for a certain purpose. Kite information may change. See information science and then apply such to information involving kites.
     
  • kite-inspired aircraft 
  • kite instruction
  • Kite Interference Theorem           AirborneWindEnergy/message/8398
  • kite inventing
  • kite invention
  • kite inventor
     
  • kite irrigation   Pump water    See also: firefighting kites, storing energy in water head via KES      M140
     
  • kite jargon
     
  • kite killer, kite killer lines, kite killer system, kite killer RC system, KK, KKs, KKS (kite kill system), kite killers, kill the kite, how to kill a kite, how to kill a kite system,  bringing down a kite, depower a kite, killing kites, kite kill, safety of AWECS using kite-kill tech, kite-kill technology, kite dousing, kite damping, kite d______
  • kite king, Kite King
     

  • KiteLab
    • KiteLab of Technical University at Delft, Netherlands.   Delft University of Technology, TU Delft. KitePower team,   Kite courses set,  
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    • KiteLab of Ilwaco, Washington, USA
    • KiteLab of Los Angeles, California, USA
    • KiteLab Nigeria
    • KiteLab of Austin, Texas, USA
    • KiteLab conjectures, conferencess, encampments, cooperation, collaborations
  • KiteLab Group,  ... highly cooperative
  • KiteLab Group cooperative IP disclosure      M344     Join your IP disclosure to the collection:   join@KiteLabGroup.com  
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  • kite "ladder"       LadderMill     laddermill
  • kite launching
     
  • kite legs    leg, legs       kite legs, tether legs          Legs help a kite's relaunch. Legs might help protect turbines upon landing.         M
     
  • kiteless          Having not kites when otherwise one might be with kites.  Page 52.
  • kite lift
  • kite lifting, kitelifting
  • kitelifting jump, kitelifted jump, kitelifting, kitelifting jumping
  • Kitellite™ and KiteFi™ Trademark Notice
  • kite-like element       This is used sometimes by people having a difficult time reconciling that they are simply using a "kite."       GeneralLink
     
  • kite line    kiteline
  • kite line dynamics
  • Kite Lines, the periodical succeeding Kite Tales (Robert Ingraham). AKA.  Kite Lines followed the twelve-year old Kite Tales.   Kite Lines, Vol, 1, No. 1, Spring 1977, editor Valerie Govig.  
  • kite lines
    • The out of print magazine available online: Kite Lines
    • wiki on kite lines
    • A kite has a wing set, a tether set, and a resistive subassembly (set of elements). The tether set tenses as a result of the wing set's kiting action couple through the tether set of kite lines to the resistive set that may be anything that results in the tension in the kite lines; thus the resistive set might be the rotating earth, a vehicle, a falling mass, a payload of a gliding kite (paraglider), a human hand, a kiteboarder's board and body, a horse, a winch, a rock, a wing deflecting to give resistance, etc.
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  • kite-line safety,
    • kite-line incidents
    • kite-line gash
    • kite-line cuts
    • kite-line breaks
    • kite-line burns
    • kite-line safety precautions
    • v
  • Kite Line Shuttle, kite-line shuttles
  • kiteline wear,  kite line wear.    Kite lines wear from reeling, drumming, pulleys, bending at terminals, capstan operations, solar radiation, moisture undulations, tension oscillations, thermic attacks, chemical attacks, grit, handling, etc.   Rapid wear, low wear, high wear,     Inspection, logging use, testing, and careful engineering belong to kite wear concerns.  Manufacturing lots are to be recorded for safety-critical AWECS use of kitelines.   Wear sections and line jackets are example responses for kiteline wear for sections that pass through machinery or special damaging environments.
     
  • Kite Links 
     
  • kite-lofted wind turbine
  • kite locators       Where is the wing#34 right now?  Wing#46 right now?   
  • kiteloop
  • kite loss, kite-loss stories, kite losing, kite-losing methods      [Opposite: kite finding, kite recovery, ]
  • kite machine
  • kitemaker        one who makes kite systems. However, they might just make the wing for kite systems.   Often kitemakers are not commercial manufacturers.
    • Kitemakers' Competition, Kitemakers Competition
    • Events for kitemakers
      • kitemakers' clinics, camps, meetings, conventions,
      • AKA's Grand National Kitemakers' Competition
    • Forums for kitemakers
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  • kitemaking, kite-making, kite making
  • KiteMan    or Kite man          main
  • kite manufacturer
  • kite manufacturing
  • kitemare   --a kite challenge that tends to give one a nightmare.  
  • kite mass
  • kite master
  • KiteMesh
  • KiteMesh Arrays
     

kite messenger            A long and deep culture within kiting involves using kite tethers as a means for transporting messages, objects, parachute models, gliders, entertainment bags, etc. Advanced AWECS consider having "messenger" being such as gondolas to transport people, products, tools, water, chemicals, skydivers, hang gliders,  batteries, etc..  The "messenger" might be sailed up and down the tether. The "messenger" might be a powered climber that is powered by electricity made by the very AWECS on which the messenger travels. Other schemes are being examined.      See also HERE.


  • kitemill, kite mill, kite-mill, kite mills
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  • kite meteorology
  • kitemobile     kite-mobile
     
  • kite model, kite models
  • kite monitoring, extended kite monitoring    
  • kite mooring
  • kite motor     KiteMotor KiteMotors  
  • kite motoring      kitemotoring
  • kite motors
  • KiteNav project , undergoing at Politecnico di Torino

     
  • Kitenergy   [no double e]  seems to be coined and reserved by a project with leaders Lorenzo Fagiano, Mario Milanese, and Dario Piga.    www.kitenergy.net  Logo has KITEnrg        
    "Kitenergy is an AWE technology that works in the boundary layer, exploits aerodynamic lift of controlled tethered wings, and generates electricity on the ground."         KE-carousel

     

  • kite nomenclature
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  • kite number, kite numbers
    • various numbers describing or designating kites
    • Wing made up of sub-wings; sub-wings have perhaps individualized balance and navigation lines
    • Ordinal kite numbers would be assigned at some weather observatories.
    • In a kite train, the sequenced wings have been assigned kite numbers.
    • In some kite contests kites would be given kite numbers.
    • The parameter numbers belonging to a kite systems are the set of kite numbers for the kite system.
    • The L/D of a wing in a kite system is a popular kite number.
    • The largest dimension of a wing in a kite is a frequent number, either tallness or wing span (WS).
    • The area of a kite's wing is a kite number frequently called out in discourse.
    • A kite will have a range of kite numbers related to each parameter. Some kite numbers are with dimensions and some are dimensionless.
    • Kite Number ::  minimum wing loading divided by maximum wing loading.   DiscussHere.

  • kite of kites    
    • "Kite of kites"  may be a status expression where some hierarchy is extant.  Paramount kite in value or prestige.
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  • kiteology
  • kite operator
  • kite outrigger
  • kite paper
    • kite paper may refer to an essay or report about a kite matter.
    • kite paper may refer to paper used in constructing the sail of kites
  • kite-parachute                     parachute kite   
       
  • kite patents     
  • kite pattern  KitePattern
     
  • kite performance
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  • kite physics
    • NASA kite index
    • Draft List of Advanced Kite Physics Principles by Dave Santos, November 19, 2012. "Preface- This is a short list of specialized physics concepts unique or new in application to AWES and kitesMany scientific principles apply that are too obvious and general to include (like F=ma). Some kite facts are so basic and well established they might be considered Laws, many others range into secondary axioms and theorems, and some are bold curious conjectures that may or may not matter greatly in a future perfected engineering science. The evidence for these Principles is diverse and includes expert empirical knowledge, gedanken, experimental data, and calculated predictions."

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  • kite physics model
  • kite pilot
     
  • Kite Pilot School 
     


 

  • kite pin, kite pin collecting,
  • kite placing     Use kites as cranes to place object.
  • kite plane    kiteplane KitePlane
  • kite plant
  • kite playing                    Oct. 3, 2009: GM: 9640
  • KitePort, kiteport, kite port       M105  past, present, future, issues, services, safety,  airport for AWE operations, airport for kite operations,
  • kite power     kitepower    KitePower
  • kite power demonstrator
  • kite power generator  KPG

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  • kite power nomadism        Nomadism 
    The wireless Internet might increase the nomadic count from the now 30-to-40 million people. Add kite power to the nomadic way?   Notes are requested.  Tents, wraps, clothes, etc. may double as kite sails. Combine kite power with solar power via fine integration with nomadic textiles?
     
  • kite power plant    ::  Wind-energy plants that use kites to reach and help mine the upper winds.
  • Kite power station             Hermann Oberth 
     
    "The Kite Power Station" (a wind-driven power station at high altitudes
     
  • kite power system, kite energy-mining systems.    Distinguish between a power system that is powering a kite system from a system that is a kite system that is purposed to capture energy from the winds.
  • kite power systems   KPS
  • kite power system methodology
  • kite-powered electric vehicle
    • kited vehicle has axled generator of electricity or water turbine; as needed, the vehicle is occasionally driven by the stored electricity.
    • Electric vehicles that use electricity derived from AWES
  • kite powered system
  • Kite-Power-generation conference  (Ref. is Drachen Foundation for proposed 2010 conference where kite sailing and win-power harvesting by kite systems would be on agenda.  [It is suspected that the suggested EnergyKiteSystems.net hybrid of an integrated kite-sailing-power-harvesting system via use of kite-drawn hydro turbines will also be discussed. Making hydrogen at sea with ocean winds via kite systems may help assist the hydrogen-assisted economy.]
  • kite-power generator
  • kite power generation
  • kite power generator
     
  • kite-powered shipping         KiteShip      KiteTug     SkySails    KiteSails    KitVes  KiteSailing
  • Kite Powered Take-OFF     |     Kite PTO   |     KPTO   AirborneWindEnergy/message/9363
     
  • kite powered tensioned loop
  • kite pro                  kite professional  
  • kite properties
  • kite propulsion (water, land, ice, snow, rail, cableway, aerial cableway, car, boat, ...)
  • kite propulsion systems

  • Kite Quantum Mechanics (Kite QM, KQM)

  • kite quiver       One's operational container of kite systems. The term is sometimes accepted as representing the collection while the containment is left in focus. 
    • Quivers play various functions in kiting
      • A quiver (as container) may be designed to aid in the launching of a kite train. The train's wings are held in an organized manner in the quiver. Letting out (out of the quiver) the wings of the train can be aided by the quiver's hold.
      • Quivers may hold one or more kite systems or just the wings of the kite systems in order to give choice to the kite pilot(s). Choice may regard purpose or wind state or venue.
      • one-kite quiver, two-kite quiver, three-kite quiver, etc.   20-kite quiver.
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  • kite quiver (distinguish from the container or collection) may regard the shaking of a kite wing.  Slight motion of the wing.

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  • kite pump     KitePump      See also AWE irrigation system.
     
  • kiter    one who is piloting a kite system
     
  • Kitercise    There are many ways to use kites for exercise.
     
  • kite reel
  • kite repair
  • kite rig
  • kite rigger
  • kite rigging
  • kite rig design
  • kite risks
  • Kite Rite
  • kite rocket
  • kite rocket line grabber         [Rod Read, 2012]
  • kite rotor    Carl B. Chupp in 1936 described the autorotating blades of his gyrokite as "kite rotor"  And "freely revolving rotor"
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  • kite running, kite runner, kite runners      Kite running and running kite systems has its many hazards.
    • Be ready for several meanings of "kite running, kite runner, etc."
    • In kite fighting and other specialty kiting activities, one who runs to get kite wings that have fallen from the sky for some reason, may be said to be doing "kite running" and during such office being a "kite runner."    
      • See Tim's note:  my-best-kite.com/kite-finding.html        
      • Wiki
      • "Lootera"  ... famous kite runner.
      • Book: Kite Runner    advance the fame or infamy of kite running related to kite festivals and kite fighting.   Movie: Kite Runner.
    • The long standing option to run holding a kite string with its kite wing(s) is a form of "kite running."  This is done with more than one reason.
      • One may run with a kite for exercise of the running with the resistance of the wing; this is frequently done in track & field training sessions, often with the kite wing set being of very low lift but with high drag, often a parachute.
      • Others have run kites while the wings or tethers carry advertisements. 
      • Others run the string set and wing set of the kite system in order to get the wings into faster upper wind; this is a form of kite launching.  Or in calm, kite run just to get the system flying at all.
      • Others kite run while meditating how their body is the anchor system of an aircraft system, which is true, and how they are flying; the running adds a heighten sense of being the motor of the flying that is occurring. Some do this as part of "wing running" in preparation for hang gliding, ground skimming, paragliding.
      • Another form of kite running regards assisting in launching large kite wings or large kite trains; the kite system launch sometimes need people to run sections of the system or run to inspect parts.
      • WWRA  World Wing Running Association
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    • Accidents and fatalities related to kite running and the running of kite systems
    • How to be safe when performing kite running, running with kites, running with wings, wing running, ...
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  • kites
  • KITESA,   KiteSA, K.I.T.E.S.A.,   
    Now as KITES for Kite Information and Technology Exchange Society

    Kite Information and Technology Exchange Society of America since 1960s has served kiting, manned kiting, hang gliding, and airborne wind energy systems since the 1960s. Founding member of AWEIA, founding member of KiteLab Group, founded United States Hang Glider Association, founded Low & Slow periodical, founded Hang Glider magazine as a weekly, founded HangGliderHistory.com  with its timeline, founded Self-Soar Association, operates KiteLab Los Angeles.
                Any innovation in kiting and hang gliding that stems from KiteSA are placed freely into public domain for anyone to use personally or commercially without reference or attribution.                
                 KiteSA identified an early instance residing in the year 1908 in the territory of Breslau of the free-flight pilot-control mechanical construct of the cable-stayed triangle control frame (TCF) with hang glider pilot tethered behind the TCF; in each decade since the TCF was used in aviation in various ways; the TCF secured a sector of hang gliders as true free-flight kite systems with the pilot being the moving mooring base of the kite's tether during the gliding and soaring operations. 
                 KiteSA founded EnergyKiteSystems.net , energykitesystems.net , KiteEnergySystems.net , CupKites.com , StyroFoamKites.com , group AirborneWindEnergy  . and HGAusa.com      Current strong focus of KITESA regards bringing AWECS into rapid development and acceptance in both water and air.  AWECS is airborne wind energy conversion systems where methodology has clear mechanical similitude in water dynamics and water-air dynamics.
            RAD
    refers to Rapid AWE development, Rapid AWECS Development. 
            RAA
    refers to Rapid AWECS Acceptance.
              Donations are needed and welcome; such may easily and securely be sent via the PayPal button at joefaust.org   Glass pockets is logged at
    Donations and advertising income log
          Temporary coordinator for AWEIA during its current founding process in 2009.
          An occasional-e-mail news list on energy kiting is maintained; you may place your e-mail on the KiteEnergy list by noting such in an e-mail  using the following e-mail.   Join in these KiteSA movements, projects, and programs via e-mail: Notes@energykitesystems.net  
     
  • kite safety
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  • kite safety features
    (de-power devices, chicken loop, kite releases, kill lines, downing lines, over-power response systems, sail-self-reefing, remote control gliding of detached wing, wing-spoiling devices, etc.)  Larger AWES will have safety concerns for line handling, anchoring, alerts, programs, etc.
    • three ring circus" release in parachuting.   | wiki Article |
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  • kite sail
  • kite-sail
  • kite sails
  • KiteSail       KiteSails
  • kiteSailing, kite-sailing, kite sailing, kitesailing
    • kitesailing clothes
    • Kite Sailing Shoe     
  • kite sailing restrained by a cableway
  • kite-sailing fleets       AYRS2493        SeeAndDiscuss  
  • kite sailing  kitesailing   Art0  Art1   Art2     
  • kite sailing airships         1Ref      1Image
  • Kite Sail System    MORLEY TETHERED KITE SAIL PROJECT     AyrsMsg  with grant from the Howard Fund. 2010-11..   Mike Howard.   First: Static Demonstrator.   One ref: Catalyst.
     
  • Kitesat       Term used by Dave Santos.      [ ]
     
  • kite school
    • kite pilot school
    • kiting school
    • kite-energy school
    • energy-kiting school
    • snowkiting school
    • kiteboarding school
    • kitemaking school
       
  • kite science         GenLink  
     
  • kite scrapbook  ,  kite scrapbooks,
  • kite separation
     
  • Kiteshark    http://www.kiteshark.net
     
  • kite shed  or kiteshed or KiteShed 
     
  • kite shooting      Main folder  (many types of "shooting")
     
  • kite show, kite shows, The Kite Show,
     
  • Kite Ship (tm)    KiteShip (tm)                  Home of KiteShip
  • kite showman
  • Kite Simulation Toolbox                Ockels,      http://tinyurl.com/KiteSimulationToolboxGENERAL
     
  • kite site, kite sites, kitesite,
     
  • kite skating, kiteskating  
    Various sorts of skates are worn by a human while kite pilot operates a power kite to travel over ground suitable for the skates used.  Ice skates, grass skates, in-line skates, etc.
  • kite stamps
  • kite-string gash, kite-string cut, kite-string injuries, ikte-string incidents.
  • kite-string safety
  • kite-tail, kite tail, kitetail, kite tails,      energykitesystems.net/Tails/index.html
  • kite tattoo      KiteTattooIMAGESgeneral
  • kite time
  • kite trick, kite tricks, kite stunt, kite stunts, kite maneuvers, kite moves, 
  • kite water-skiing, water-ski kite flying
  • kiting site, kiting sites
  • kites for practical purposes, kite systems for practical purposes, work kites, energy kite systems, kite energy systems, practical kiting, kites as tools,
  • Kite simulators
  • kite soaring            [[There are reasons to take caution: Paragliding Disaster Events - Part II ]]
    • kite soaring   Manned use of slope updraft in a free-flight gliding-kite system; the massive anchor is falling; the reactive wing has its lift and drag; the tether couples the system's falling anchor with the wing, so that the kiting principle results. The same kiting system mechanically provides resultant paragliding and kite hang gliding with a window of gliding and soaring opportunity.   When the falling anchor is advanced to be an effective wing itself, then another free-flight opportunity opens: that of playing the lower wing against the upper wing while the two separate wings are in significantly different winds in order to effect free-flight travel. Then when the two-wing system of long tether is further configured, onboard RATS may mine some of the dynamic energy of the apparent wind over each wing ---and save the energy for gifting others or in-system electric needs.  These systems may be expanded by treating upper wing as a set of wing elements and the same for the lower wing into a wing set of many elements; and the tether may go into being a tether set of many elements. Small or very huge systems of free-flight kite soaring systems are possible; and the AWES from RATS in such free-flight realm is possible.
    • Gleitschirm Soaren, Start von unten    Let the kite help hike to launch point; then kite soar.
       
    • soaring kite hang gliders is a form of kite soaring
    • Flying FFAWE or FF-AWE or FF-AWES is a form of kite soring
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  • kite song, kite songs,
  • kite's spatial domain of activity
  • kite-specific research   
     
  • kite stability
    • List of kite passive-stability factors, with intro and notes:           AirborneWindEnergy/message/8302
    • kite-stability control mechanisms
    • kite instability
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  • kite stacks     
    See differently: kite trees, kite coteries, kite arches, kite clusters, kite trains and kite stacks
     
  • kite state, kite states  [[Often a writer will mean kite-wing-set state when writing "kite state" in discussions. As a kite is a combine of wing set, tether set, and resistive or reaction set, then kite state would include the state of the wing set, tether set, and anchor or reaction set. Look to context to note if the author is with a focus just on the wing set of a kite (kite system).]]
  • kite station
  • kite-station siting
  • kite steering unit
  • "KITESTOCK" FESTIVAL         re: LAGI  Land Art Generator Initiative
  • kitesurfing         see also kiteboarding
  • kite swimming   (several sorts)
  • kite system
  • kite-system cannon
  • Kite-System Skydiving          M3245
  • kite-system topology
     
  • Kite Tales     National Kite-fliers Quarterly Review was the given name for what later became Kite Tales in the second issue.  Then the succession name was Kite Lines when Valerie Govig took over the editorship.   The later Kite Lines V1N1, Bob Ingraham gives some history.  Alternate spelling found in the literature: National Kitefliers Quarterly Review; which spelling was actually used by Robert Ingraham? Are all the issues available for Ingraham's publications?  [ ]
  • kite tailplane
  • kite taxi            AWES taxi, kite system taxi, kite taxi,  take AWES wing to upper airs and then release. The taxi aircraft returns to base for next duty.  In AWES7467  BobS recommends helicopter drones for AWES taxi service.
  • kite technician
  • KiteTech Energy Systems, Limited
  • kite tech
  • kite technology
  • kite technologist
  • kite terms
  • kite-think tank     See distinct kite-do tank.
  • kite towed submarines
  • kite tower generator       UsedHERE
     
  • kite turbine        Notice that the conventional simple kite is a turbine itself as the wing rotates around its mooring, even if the rotation might be left-right or random pathing about the points of an imaginary sphere.  A kite system may advance in being a useful turbine in many ways.  Note the discussion between Dave Culp and Joe Faust about a kite being a turbine.
     
  • kite traction
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  • kite trade
    • KTAI      Home
       
  • kite train 
  • kite train generator        UsedHERE.
     
  • kite trajectory
  • kite trajectory constraints
  • kite trajectory control
  • kite trajectory monitoring
  • kite trajectory variables
     
  • kite transport, kite transportation, kite transportation systems
    • Most traditional is the the moving of items up and down the kite line or up-and-drop items
    • Next is the moving of recreating persons from one place to another
    • Next is the pulling of boats and ships using kite systems.
    • Then coming are kite-supported and kite-driven aerial cableways to transport goods and people.
    • FF-AWE is the transportation of goods and people in a free-flight kite system of one soaring wing or multiple wings or in dynamic soaring tether-with-both-ends-winged systems using wind strata differences for hapa-like soaring
    • Artificial wind with ground tugging vehicles using kite lift for transporting odd-shaped or large shaped objects is an optional.
    • AeroKite   is concept toward FF-AWE and flying by kite system using two kite sets, one in one wind and the other set in a wind with differences from the wind of the other kite set.
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  • kite tree     See differently: kite trees, kite coteries, kite arches, kite clusters, kite trains and kite stacks
  • kite tricks      Ref1   
  • kitey   
  • kite type
     
  • kite types       List of kite types
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  • KITESA, Lift (e-zine),  KiteSA,  Kite Information and Technology Exchange Society of Americas, (founded in Venice, California).
     
  • KiteSailTM 
  • KiteShipTM      Homepage
  • kitetool
    KiteTool
    kite tool
     
  • KiteTugTM
  • kite turbine technology
  • Kite valve, kite valve repair
  • KiteWater        water obtain from use of kite systems: 1. AirWater  Capture water from the air using kite systems,  2. Desalinization of sea water using energy from kite systems  3. Using kite energy to pump water from one location to another, 4. Using kite energy to pump water from ground water and tube wells, 5. _____
  • kite water pump
  • kite waterski  or kite water-ski
  • Kite Wind Generator®        of the KitVes project
    also Kite Wind Genertor    of the KiteGen arena
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  • kite winder
  • kitewinder
  • KITE WINDERTM VLC (variable-line controller)
  • kited wind turbine          KWT
  • kite wind generator   KWG         Article22     
  • Kitewing  
  • kite yacht
  • kiteYachting
  • kite yachts
  • kiteyness      and  its opposite:   non-kiteyness      M321

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  • KiteZone     kite zone   AWES105
       
  • kiting
    • The action of flying kite systems
    • high altitude kiting        AirborneWindEnergy/message/8962
    • indoor kiting
    • power kiting in sports
    • flying in kite hang gliders of framed and canopy sorts of wings
    • kiting safety
    • kiting skills
    • kiting schools
    • festival kiting
    • kiting to fulfill tasks, works, jobs, projects
    • kiting to produce energy for immediate use or for loading an electrical grid
    • kiting incidents
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  • kiting accidents
  • kiting cylinder (airspace use by kiting operation), AWE cylinder
     
  • Kiting gliders          Index      
  • Kiting Kite Hang Gliders (KKHG)
     
  • kiting risks
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  •  kiting session
    • kiting-session lessons     Kiting ever provides lessons to the observant and curious.
    • kiting-session found things
    • kiting-session costs
    • kiting-session blessings
    • kiting-session challenges
    • kiting-session plan

       
  • kitist Walker, 1903.
  • The Kitist, a poem   A poem by Daniel Kauffman  
  • kitoon   
    • (uncommon variant for "kytoon"  which see.
    • Also:   cartoon that features kites    Some kitoons:   Here1    Kitoonist draws kitoons.
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  • kitoonist  (one who draws cartoons depicting kites; cartoons as such are then kitoons (specialized kite-scene cartoons).
  • kitricity   kite-made electricity = kitricity or kitetricity

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  • kitricity production system
     
  • kitricity production system    AWECS that dominantly produces electricity  (say, as opposed to an AWECS or kite-energy system that is dominantly producing traction or sound or heat or light, etc.  For traction: traction kite energy system TKES)

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  • kitricity credits     
    Kitricity is fed into grids or storage systems; electricity consumers may buy electricity made by kites. Split electric bills might show: kWh from kitricity, kWh from coal or oil, kWh from hydro, kWh from conventional wind, etc.    One might buy future kitricity.    Kitricity credits might be brokered between energy brokers far from where the kitricity is produced; in such manner distribution need not be physical.
     
  • kitricity production systems        are kite energy systems that specialize in producing electricity as opposed to production of pumping or sawing or traction or sound or heat, etc.
     
  • KitVes 
     
  • KitEye    The Kiteye project is a project, conceived at the European Space Agency and it's purpose is to design and fly a high altitude kite which is able to break the world altitude record for a single kite on a single line.   Design of an inflatable high altitude kite        Author: J. Breukels    Year? 2002?   
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Further point for history:  "If you allow me a little note on this point, I remember that I had proposed the name "kitegen" to Massimo Ippolito a few years ago. Before, he had called his idea "Kiwigen" ("KIte WInd GENerator) - which sounded like something made in New Zealand or sold in the vegetable market. Ippolito agreed with me and from then on we started using that name. At that time, Mr Fagiano and his coworkers at the Politecnico di Torino probably didn't even know that such a thing as AWE existed.

Unfortunately, neither myself nor Ippolito placed a copyright on the name, so I see now that people are fighting for the rights of the name. Which is all right, after all, what is in a name? That which we call kitegen, by any other name, would fly so nice. Also, a kitegen is a kitegen is a kitegen.....     ~~UB     Dec. 22, 2010,  M2754

"DISTINCTION:   "The name “KiteGen” has been coined at Politecnico di Torino, well before the foundation of KiteGen Research s.r.l., and it has been the name of the first research project, funded by Regione Piemonte and coordinated by Politecnico di Torino, aimed to investigate high-altitude wind energy using power kites."  Lorenzo Fagiano in his Ph.D. thesis, which see.
   


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