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Topic    Line Disconnecting
Ways to severe or disconnect tethers upon incident or to fulfill purpose?
  • Line disconnecting?
  • Line releasing?
  • Knives?
  • Heat? Melting?
  • Quick releases?
  • Sensor commands?
  • Vandalism?
  • Accidental releases?
  • Purposes to terminate tethering?
    • Breakaway AWES? Then stop long-line dragging over properties of the air or ground.
    • Deliberate release to give untethered flight to wings?
    • Prevent destruction of wing in special wind event?
    • Wings are behaving very badly and are out of control?
    • Release wing(s) to other aerial purposes.
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  • Disconnect aloft?
  • Disconnects near ground?
  • Disconnects at mid-tehter?
  • Multiple segmentation of tehters?
  • Collecting disconnected lines?
  • Aerotecture, inhabited cases: human using knives or other machines to disconnect line aloft.
  • Line breaks  or disconnect. Then collecting or "flying" the line using line-held devices, pop-out wings, line chutes, ...?
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