A small matched pair of the newly discovered diamond sails were set in a hoop and held in a light breeze. It was observed that the sails collectively billowed into the canonical delta kite form in either shunt direction, by a single control-line input. The breeze was too light to excite the wings into a predicted aeroelastic self-oscillation feature.

Shunting is a natural basis for crosswind power between crosswind anchors. String-net "tilings" of shunting wings with co-heddled centerlines are foreseen. The Shunting Diamond single-skin soft-kite concept seems suited to megascale.

AWE Encampment follow-on experiments and media pending..

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