Topic
Single-Layer
Material Wing for Kiting (SL)
Single-Skin Wing for Kiting :: SS
Soft or with spars ...
- Materials:
- Fabric, film, textile,
sheet, Single-Skin (SS) |
Single-layer (SL)
- Look one day for graphene sails for SL
- SS
separate flows and have thin thickness
- The wiki needs much work: wiki/Soft_single_skin_kite
- Here is respected materials that may not be very soft; a sheet of carbon fibre might not be very "soft."
- Terms in the literature
and some challenges: SS :: single surface (challenge is
that there still is an aerodynamic upper surface and lower surface to a
single-layer
material wing; that makes two surfaces and a challenge for
termiinology). Often "single" opposes the different
ram-air-filled cellular parafoils that feature an upper layer of
material and a lower layer of material integrated by lines or ribs that
integrate the upper layer and the lower layer; such wings have still an
aerodynamic upper surface and lower exterior surface. So, just
use terms in context and sub-culture that works. Here we are pausing to
note some challenges. The term challenge resolves, in part,
when SS is rather "single-skin" and not "single surface." But
then "skin" is a challenge for material; if "skin" allows many
different materials, then a resolution seems in place.
- Some considerations
regarding single-layer (SL) material wings
for kiting:
- SL does not have cells to capture water, sand, insects,
air.
- SL oes not have the added mass of a ram-air two-layer
parafoil wing.
- Lift-to-mass ratio
- Mass for a given area is minimal in SL wings.
Compare having
two layers of material for the same area instead of just one
layer! Big
reduction here!
- The number of tethers to the ground for a SL for kiting
may vary from one to a huge number of tethers (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..., 100,
..., 1000, ...)
- Bridling for a SL wing for kiting may vary depending on
design, choice of material, size, and purpose.
- Bill Ola Rasmussen kite Falken
- "The NPWC Falken is a sparless single skin kite which is flown directly from kite lines, using no bridle." All lines go to its anchor.
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- Peter Lynn
- Rogallo wing wiki/Rogallo_wing |
- Sleds.
- Allison Sled. William Allison
- Scott Sled
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- NASA parawings
- Dave Culp, KiteShip: OutLeader™ wing for kiting and sailing (special sector of kiting). energykitesystems.net/0/DaveCulp/
- SS sails for sailing craft
[our works have sailing craft as a special sector of kiting featuring
two flow media and allowance for tension in hard masts]
- 2e5.com
- SS wings in paragliding and kite hang gliding
- Playsails
Play Sail
- SS flags and banners, shaders, canopies. or architectural kites and awnings
- SS wings in some energy-kite systems or AWE (airborne wind energy)
- Windbow kite | arch ribbon by Joel Scholz |
- Skybow rotating-ribbon wing
- Leaf-wing kites
- Paper kites of SS
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