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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

  • UHMWPE      wiki     Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE or sometimes shortened to UHMW), also known as high-modulus polyethylene (HMPE) or high-performance polyethylene (HPPE),
     
  • UJ  universal joint
  • ULL  ultra long line.              Also: ultralight line.
     
  • ULLPG (ultra-long-line paragliders)  
    • Two sorts:
      • 1.  Bridle point is close to wing set. Then ULL goes from bridle point to resistive set
      • 2.  Bridle point is at payload pod or resistive set
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  • Ultimate Flying Object, U-Fo, UFO, www.windstarkites.com/UFO.htm
  • ultrabelt, ultrabelts      InAWES
     
  • Ultra______™    trade marking reserved prefixing for transnational AWE products and services from KiteLabGroup
     
  • UltraPilot™     UltraWing™   UltraKite™
    and Ultra ____™   from KiteLabGroup
     

  • ultra capacitor  or ultracapacitor    | stand alone | Sole Power-Source Applications | An ultracapacitor is a dc device. More specifically, it is an alternating direct-current device with constantly changing voltage that is dependent on the input/output current.    | Art2 |   current limiter?  | "I would try building a wing skin as an ultracap." |
  • Ultralight
  • Ultralight wing
  • Ultralight aircraft
  • ultrarope, ultrabelt            InAWES


 

  • undercorrection
  • underwater kite   (see paravane)
  • undulations
  • UNFCCC    wiki: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • unfurl, unfurling, unfurls
  • unidirectional
     
  • uninhabited aircraft
  • unintended startup, unintended flight,

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  • Universal Power Processor, or UPPity.     Brooks, Santos ???? "a multi-sprag aggregator for flip-wings & other power sources."
  • unistable
     
  • unmanned aerial systems   UAS          Subset of UAS are unmanned tethered aerial systems UTAS
  • unmanned tethered aerial systems  UTAS  , in other words:  kites   (kite consists of three parts: mooring, tether, lifting body; the mooring might move in various ways on ground, water, or even in the air; the tether transmits the resistance of the mooring against the lift/drag of the lifting body; kites may have profiles that remind one of other aircraft of various wing sorts: rotating, fixed wing, flexible wing, kytoon, lifting blimps, etc.. )

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  • units          article       units of measures          Systems of measures.   Agreements.
  • unreel cycle
     
  •  unstable kite elements in kite train      Notice Terry McPherson's record of 37 fighter kites in train successfully flown for a world record at the 2009 WSIKF.   Important for AWE: A major finding of his is that 4 or more unstable fighters on one line cancel enough uncertainty to fly reliably.
  • unsymmetrically.     Marvin used this term in a treatise on kites.. Asymmetrically.
     
  • upcycle kite   is a kite made of recyclables where the material is sent upwards from trash fate to flying fate.  Trash technology applied to kite making results in upcycle kites.
  • upperwindpower  
     
  • upper-wind resource  is mined by AWECS
     
  • Upper Windpower™  journal, publications,     upperwindpower    
    journal for AWES:  Upper WindPower Journal
  • upper winds
  • UPS     uninterruptible power supplies       wiki
  • up wash
  • UpWind, trademark (UpWind, UpWind Kites, UpWind Power, UpWind Fund,)
  • upwind kite
  • upwind     windward     wiki 
  • upwind design       (contrast with downwind design)
  • upwind gust detection and profiling
     
  • urban AWE, urbanAWE,  urban wind energy UWE, urbanWE, urbanWP, urban wind power, urbanAWECS, urban AWECS, urbanAWECS.
    Distinguish between the airborne, the terrain enabled, the structure enabled, and the ground-hugging towered devices.   M389
     
  • USPTO   United States Patent & Trademark Office   holds notes and correspondence that is missed by the Google patent collection.
     
  • USWindlabs        Doug Selsam
     
  • UTAS     unmanned tethered aerial systems (UTAS) , in other words:  kites   (kites consists of three parts: mooring, tether, lifting body; the mooring might move in various ways on ground, water, or even in the air; the tether transmits the resistance of the mooring against the lift/drag of the lifting body; kites may have profiles that remind one of other aircraft of various wing sorts: rotating, fixed wing, flexible wing, kytoon, lifting blimps, etc..  A kite may hold multiple moorings, multiple tethers, or multiple lifting bodies.)   UTAS form a subset of UAS  or UAVs.
     
  • UTES Underground Thermal Energy Storage
     
  • Util       Util (NYC based green product start-up by Noah Sapir)  .
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    Lower Manhattan Fat Cat club]    Util folder in EnergyKiteSystems 
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  • utility arch     M337   
  • utility power device
     
  • utility scale AWE   utilityScaleAWE   (provides power equivalent to meet the needs of hundreds of homes)
    Other sectors of AWE scale: utility-scale AWE, commercial-scale AWE, residential-scale AWE, nomadic-scale AWE, sport-scale AWE, toy-scale AWE, miniature-scale AWE, or micro-scale AWE
  • utility pilot/lifter
  • UV degradation
  • UWEC Ultimate Wind Energy Converter
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