Gliding kite system brings the record breaker home.

NYT article, Oct 24, 2014, about Alan Eustace and his approx. 25 mile AGL fall cushioned by a kite system.

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art depicting man-lift

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    Ward off big cats during hikes and treks by using kite systems that remain visible and make some noise and light as wanted. Tune the size and action of the kite system for best results. Test result reports are invited. Satisfaction in using this Big Cat Kite Method will depend on the user's chosen arrangement. I am not responsible for any injury or death that may occur from big-cat attacks while using the system. 

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PS:  Walking inside the wing of a kite system will give some protection from big cats. 

PPS: Caution: Some cats might be attracted to some kite systems. Choose wisely. Avoid those systems that attract the big cats. 

PPPS: Avoid wing figures that look like lunch to a big cat. 

PPPPS: Do not use a kite system that failed to keep a big cat away from you; change the design of your system. 

PPPPPS: Avoid the wing designs that you find being flown by cats. Those cats may have already negotiated with a pilot. 

PPPPPPS: Included in this disclosure is an alternative Big Cat Kite Method where the human situates in the sky and uses a kite system that walks across the lands by one of several known travel methods. 

~ JoeF

A Wood Kite

Have you constructed a Wood Kite?

Used in electrical-production works? 

Or other purposeful endeavors?

The instructor grasps protection for all "folding" kites in 1853, 

not just the couple of drawn and featured methods

which are choice in themselves. 

~ JoeF

Kite-Balloon History

The aim of this topic is to explore the history of kite balloons and then sift that history for advancing RAD. We have some posts on kite balloons, kytoons, inflatable tethered wings, and hybrid kite systems that use elements that are balloons. Note that HTA and neutrally buoyant and LTA balloons for tethering are included. And involve the flying media of water as well as air or other fluids and gases on earth or beyond or inside commercial processes or inside living bodies.  There has been commentary that argue that LTA tethered balloon wings may not "win" certain AWES contests, but still win some niche contests. Scale will play its role. COE and ROI will dance tunes in any system. Recall that a balloon may be filled with most any matter in most any state or phase. Recall that balloons come in sizes from nearly invisibly tiny to larger than football fields. And recall that FFAWE hybrid systems may involve kite balloons in a variety of ways to accomplish tasks. Having a robust history is one kind of start toward seeing where kite balloons may play in AWES.  Along the way many technologies will be involved; lessons sifted might be applied even in non-kite-balloon AWES. There are yet unseen advances in balloon-wing making that might surprise and serve good purposes in the future; note teases to the future while bringing forward the history.   From time to time drop a discussion note into this topic thread. Eventually this collection may hold some keys for satisfactory solutions in the K3 Era of AWES.

Starting:

I propose that any tethered balloon set in the wind obtains a L/D profile, stable or unstable. This permits one to examine the challenges of handling balloons in wind. Blow down would imply low L/D, even possible negative L/D.  Balloon history probably will provide many tethering scenes (where kite ballooning will be extant). So, feel free to sift various early ballooning histories for tethered situations of interest. Explore the early instances of FFAWE with a hung human as lower kite-system wing where the upper kite-system wing was a large LTA bulbous low-L/D wing balloon. Etc.

Explore the FFAWE kite system where the lower kite wing was a water raft and the upper wing was a LTA hydrogen-filled kytoon.  On this point I offer now:  https://www.google.com/patents/US2398744  "Kite Balloon" by Domina C. Jalbert, circa 1945.   His primary focus in that instruction regards rescue at sea. In his teaching we notice his sending energy from low to aloft and having some of that energy form radiation in hopes of having remote persons notice the location of the person wanting to be rescued.  Further analysis of his teaching could be beneficial to RAD. It is instructive to notice how he engineered a niche solution. He already had significant kite balloon service via the barrage-balloon works.

http://www.energykitesystems.net/KiteBalloons/EarlyKytoon22.jpg  Two tethers in the wind; fairly low L/D wing; man-lift for purpose fulfillment; at that time the wings in such LTA kite-balloon systems did not build in the higher L/D shapes.

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~ JoeF

It may be helpful and consistent to join prior posts that reflect some kite balloon history. Please do such to help completeness.

In that light:

• FFAWE systems involved in the post about travel in planets' atmospheres: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/15708
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• FFAWE system involved in a portion of the flight of a record big fall by Alan Fustace: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/15706

    

• Altaeros https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/topics/14796

Or that Domina C. Jalbert's 12-yr old daughter went aloft and took photographs.

Reference: March 1958, Popular Mechanics.

A great plenty of people were kited aloft via the Ski Kite

...plans by Ken Tibado Kite Factory of Florida.

Popular Science - Aug 1968 - Page 134 

Build and Fly this Fabulous Ski Kite

Found article and photograph of her, Dorothy Jalbert.

Popular Mechanics, October 1943, page 13.

http://www.kitelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kite-Lines-v1-2.pdf

Kite Lines, Summer 1977, page 14, has another photograph of Dorothy Jalbert in a chair while lofted.  The article written by Valerie Govig and Robert M. Ingraham: "Person-Lifting Kites"

The article describe some other ascents by kite by women, including Pocock's daughter. as DaveS , mentioned in this topic thread.

The sad inadvertent ascent to a fall leading to death occurred for kite leader Steve Edeiken.

Steve Edeiken, d. September 4, 1983. He was from my  home town at that time, Venice, CA.  

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 The paraglider community and kite hang glider community and sky-diving-gliding-kite community (all free-flight kite systems) have lost well over a 1000 persons to deaths related to their sporting actions in the recent four decades. 

AWES aims to forward purposeful kiting safely, sobered by the above.   AWE often will be dealing with energies far surpassing those known in K1 and K2 era.  Our new K3 AWES Era  has had a good record; may we keep vigilant.

~ JoeF

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For practical purposes burn materials while those materials are held at altitude in an atmosphere by kite systems.

The novel method may solve some unsatisfactory burning tasks that are executed at ground level.

Also, the novel method provides rapid infusion of atmospheric oxygen for the burning process. The method may be used in specialized manufacturing processes. Also, the method may provide waste management in urgent health crises. Also, the method may provide a source heat for some Aerotecture arrangements. Also, the method may join positive wild fire management. Cremation of dead bodies using this method may be a choice by some persons for human or animal subjects. Many other practical objectives may be served by this subject method. Those skilled in the arts will envision other uses of the method; all such are intended in this claim and included in this prayed protection.

For meditation, entertainment, play, it is recognized that burning candles or small fuels have been sent aloft in balloons that may have been tethered in kite-like manner; such activity gives light and noise. Signaling by the light has also been in prior art. Burning fuses to start scientific data collection or for release of objects is in the prior art.   It is also recognized that kite systems have held celebratory fireworks, say to celebrate the Fourth-of-July day in the USA.; similar burned fireworks have occurred in the sky on kite systems in other nations for centuries. Dropping burning fuses of weaponized containers of fuel has been noted in the prior art. These factual burning processes just named were not envisioning commercial burning, disease eradication burning, Aerotecture habit heating, fire fighting, cremation, etc.   The novel method of this disclosure provides new solutions not priorly disclosed.

~ Joe Faust, aka JoeF

To be clear: "a kite" or "a pilot kite" is frequently meant by some skill in the attending arts as "a kite system" or "a pilot kite system" wherein the noted "a" system consists of a resistive set, a tether set, and a wing set wherein each of those essential sets may have one or more members. That is, be ready for "a pilot kite" to allow a subassembly dedicated to serving as pilot kite or pilot lifter wherein one may find that the tether set could be more than one and that the wing set of the "kite" may consist of more than one wing.  That is, e.g., "a pilot kite" might be a kite that is a train kite with two wings in it or a kite that is a cluster kite with wing in the kite. Perhaps three or 10 or 100 wings might be within one single pilot kite.

~ JoeF

Please, a correction:

Error: " a kite that is a cluster kite with wing in the kite"

Correcting to:  "a kite that is a cluster kite with two or more wings in the cluster."

Note: A cluster kite may have a greater variety of topologies wherein the one cluster kite there might be found two or 20 or 500 or more wings tethered in various ways.

(LTA, but with a technique twist ...)

Circa 1987, by Lothar Louis Pohl, of Canada

GB2212563 (A)  -  Balloon mounted wind- power plant

http://www.energykitesystems.net/PatentsAWE/Byun6.jpg

There probably will be AWES scale models made for display only.

Show the public, show students, props for presentations, window decorations, wall decorations, teaching tool, ...

Here is a quote from an ad for such an item:

"Small sizes dragon kites, suitable for display, like hanging on the wall. Not recommend to fly."

Tasks being accomplished with scaled terrain, etc. may be depicted on table-top scenes.

See a tease toward the topic:

http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/data/greggw/2008722211329_K65.jpg

How might AWES serve people, land, animals with respect to lava flows?

Could AWES work to cool lava-flow fronts causing dam formations? Use the wind energy to transport water to the front of lava flows; cool and harden the front. Keeping such going until the land is built up so the lava finds another route that might be more wanted. Explore such regarding the current lava flow in Hawaii. 

Hawaii Lava Flow Steadily Advancing Toward Pahoa; Residents Told To Prepare For Evacuations - weather.com

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AWES-hold remotely operated shears.  Have AWES give power and hold hung smartly placed shears or other cutting tools (cutting hot gases, power shears, laser cutters, drills, abrading agents, cutting chemical agents, high-pressure water or slurry jets, and the like)

Use converted wind energy to form power (electrical, hydraulic, pressured air) to run held power shears. The shears would cut objects, cables, pipe, and the like. Hazardous scenes may need items cut.  Visual sensors may be employed at the shear end of operations; feed to live operators the visual circumstance where cutting or destruction is needed.

~ JoeF, October 27, 2014.

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Microbursts and AWES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst

How much warning might an AWES farm have with respect to microbursts?

Sizes of microbursts?

Flying in the horizontal flows?

Was THAT a microburst or some other wind structure that slammed the wings into the ground?

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~ JoeF

Just Hang It from an AWES.

Want to just hang an object out in the air? Why? To cure it, dry it, let it be seen, age it, expose it? Test UV damage of objects? Give thrill sessions to people? Let animals get up out of the killing heat of near-ground living? Give yourself a cooler place for day office? Pinata party? Gifts? Movie screens? News display? Advertising? Recovering TB patients? Wet laundry? Fog catchers? Stinky rags? Counter weights in pulley systems? Bird-feeding platform? Water bags? Sandbags?  Devices to blow out a fire that won't react to other methods? Goods during kite transport?

What would you just hang from a working AWES?

Following reply is by Doug Selsam:

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Cutters, demolition on kites, not novel:

"Fighting kites" have cutters in the form of glass on the string, and a couple days ago I posted my idea for a kite to drag a hook across the ground, right here in this list (demolition).  So, sorry, your idea is not novel and you can forget anyone paying you a "royalty".  Also, a child once lofted a pair of rounded scissors to see if he could lift a weight using his 18-cent paper kite from the grocery store. 

This is a simple illustration of how your thrust to create a new patent system where you pay nothing and yet all cash flows to you as a reward for your daily brain-dumps, has not been thought through all the way, and, like most wind energy "inventions" rather than being new, merely regurgitates the incomplete state of development as it existed thousands of years ago, before these arts (kites,wind turbines, energy, patents) were developed beyond the infant-stage.

~ Doug Selsam

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Following reply is by Doug Selsam:

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Hi Doug S.,

    We have in forum messages full awareness of tethers that cut other kites and tethers and necks of innocent people. 

    The main disclosure concerns industrial cutters of kinds not used in kite festivals. Remote vision for operations is combined in some embodiments

    The royalty cut in is after commercial use at a significant level, else no royalty for any novelty that remains following any counterexamples. You are welcome forward any counterexamples in the arts.

    The effort at my end is one of art and tech sharing. You are invited to share your art and tech and protect it he way you wish.  If you use a laser held from a kite system to cut things and do so at a commercial level at the thresholds that kPower, Inc. sets for its IP Pool licenses, then handle me knocking at your door in some manner praying for your fair share over the novelty.  Unless you can show me that the prior art holds remote laser cutting with the cutter held by kite system, perhaps a kite system also converting the wind's energy to drive the laser.  Etc.

~ JoeF

What you missed, Doug, is that Dave Santos had earlier publicly discussed our use of the CC structure wherein he was describing the essence of the "+"  ... We put the + to ease the story, not create at that point a new story. We knew that CC at Creative Commons was about copyright; Santos with some acceptance spearheaded the new direction beyond conventional copyright.   So, no 5%, Doug. Nice try.  But you are welcome to set up your own CC+ license; and I will aim to help you obtain any due royalties by some effort on my part for you; that is the least I can do to be good community to you, an inventor.

~ JoeF

Following is a reply by Doug Selsam:

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Doug S, thanks.

1. One big point for the topic regards severely important communications between some AWES team where "a kite" or "a pilot kite" could be misunderstood between the two parties; missing that "a kite" allows that singular to encompass multiple wings in its wing set could form a huge difference in contracts and peace between companies of distinct nations.  Keeping clear on this tech is not covered by Webster, but by we in the AWES community who are extending he arts to serve others.

Doug, you then would not want to see my "do not publish, draft, notes" files!  

What I do share is culled from a vaster set of unpublished notes.  Please extend whatever seems to catch your attention. 

Once the tether is dropped, then that game is some other game usually. Burning fuels for having powered aircraft and powered captive aircraft is known arts. But having kilns fired by the wind at high altitude is not in the literature of prior arts. Etc.   Please put forward any counterexamples for review and possible use by others in the world; that would be a good work for you.  I will put up counterexamples in the same spirit. Any remaining novelty could be respected by fair players.

Best,

~ JoeF