Lifting
Humans by Kite Systems
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- Aerotecture
- Man-lifting Manlift Deliberate or inadvertent or accidental ....
- Ascensions by kite systems
- Early man-lifting by kite (basket holding of passengers, ...)
- Sport-kite lifting of humans (jumps during kiteboarding, snowkiting, icekiting, kitesurfing, kitefoiling, ...)
- Special projects underway aiming to safely lift humans by kite systems
- Parasailing (mostly boat towing of modified canopies)
- Kite hang gliding (the pilot is the
anchor part of the kite system; the tether set tows the kite-system's
wing). When the anchor part is with a thrusting mechanical power
source, then the system becomes a powered kite hang glider and is
usually meeting ultralight weight standards).
- Sail riding
- Paragliding (free-flight kite system. As of 2020 Sept, about 2,100 fatalities in this realm of non-airframe canopy free-flight paragliding)
- Powered paragliding (the kite's anchor is with a motor or
engine driving the anchor assembly while towing the kite-system's wing). Paramotoring.
- Purposes: sport,
recreation. photography, surveillance, science, cooling, observation,
living, lift for gliding, lift for skydiving, ...
- We have many posts in early forum, see.
- Incidents and lessons!
- The
2020 August tail-wrap-3-yr-old girl incident. Went viral on Internet.
Non-fatal. ) Lesson: keep clear of tails being launched.
- Steve Edeiken (1953-1983) PDF
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- Hang-on-tether hazards
- Tether hazards
- Gliding parachuting (the gliding canopy is the kite-system's wing; the pilot of the gliding parachute is the anchor set of the parachuting kite system; the shroud lines and control lines form the tether set of the kite system)
- Engineering safe man-lifting kite systems
- Inspecting man-lifting kite systems
- Liabilities in man-lifting kite systems
- Manned towed gyrokites or rotor kites
- The Hafner Rotachute wiki/Hafner_Rotachute |
- wiki/Rotor_kite
- wiki/Bensen_B-7 Bensen B-7
- wiki/Man-lifting_kite
- Man-lifting Kite 3,743 views • May 19, 2013
- http://histoire-cerf-volant.com/
- Kites lifting man's spirit ....
- How a Wild West Showman Brought Man-Lifting Kites to the British Army In the early 20th century, military daredevils soared high. by Andy Wright, March 29, 2017
- McClure’s Magazine in April of 1899 The War Kite
Another redaction of the article.
- Woman lifted in Cody System, early:
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Manlifting with Flexis
Still too dangerous as shown!
At WSIKF in 2006 or before (I arrived in 2007):
8,476 views•Dec 26, 2007