FFAWE Free-Flight AWE
- See files:
- http://energykitesystems.net/FFAWE/index.html
- http://energykitesystems.net/0/FFAWE/index.html
- And scores of posts in old forum on FFAWE
- Flow media: air, air and water, air and soil, ...
- Kitesurfing without touching the water!
- Video with controversial title: Highest Man Lift Ever
- Sea-glider
[mechanically a kite system with anchor being a kited wing while a
kited wing above opposes; total system is a kite system.
- What is a kite?
- Post 4009 in year 2011 in old forum
- Aerial Apparatus David Thayer, Patent number : US 417755 Filing date : Jul 22, 1889
- TUSK See old forum posts: 9675, 21948, 22019, 24488 and PDF
Dynamic Soaring Storm Cells
New Wilson-German DS Modes:
- Fly outside cells, with a tethered foil inside.
- Cross a continent on a cold front.
- Master ITCZ.
Harry Valentine's article
HERE
https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/the-option-for-low-speed-airborne-transportation
Idea by Harry Valentine: Tow airships using kite system. Anchor of tethered towing wings would by the airship. "a kite-pulled airship"
Facing calms with FFAWE
I appreciated your suggestion regarding zero-wind kites. We sometimes call the realm "calm kiting" and "calm kites."
The upper wind is very rarely really calm.
AWE has step-towing and towing from the ground to address some of the calm challenges.
Also, we have the ground-powered source in a tri-tether system that may keep a wing set aloft during a calm period.
As you indicated also, gliding and soaring in horizontal calms by the use of vertical thermals remains a potential solution.
And the use of changing altitudes away from a calm layer is available.
Also, FFAWE (free-flight AWE) where there are no tethers to the ground uses the asset of two strata of winds where the winds at their respective layers are in different directions or at different speeds in the same direction.