Sky WindPower Corporation

CTO: Bryan Roberts
Len Shepard, CEO of Sky WindPower
Based in Oroville, California

Their home page.
Harnessing High Altitude Wind Power was a peer reviewed article that was published by IEEE available by subscription. Harnessing High-Altitude Wind Power by
Roberts, B.W. Shepard, D.H. Caldeira, K. Cannon, M.E. Eccles, D.G. Grenier, A.J. Freidin, J.F. Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW. There are substantial biographies in the document.
New Study Identifies High Altitude Wind Power Hot Spots By Stuart Fox Posted 06.25.2009
Windmills in the Sky by David Cohn at Wired.with date: 04.06.05
Windmills in the Sky By Michael Behar Posted 11.21.2005 at 2:00 am
Velocity Cubed is a main contractor.
Dominant method: Generator-in-the-sky method with vertical-axis rotating bladed kites.
Some videos (one in several formats and byte sizes)
PJ Shepard, Technical Marketing Engineer, Sky WindPower, Oroville CA

Home of Sky Windpower

A. Measuring High Altitude Wind

B. Windpower Math

C. Capacity Factor

D. Flying Electric Generators and Other Tethered Methods

E. Tethers, Airplanes, Safety and Terrorism

F. Future Vehicle Power and Energy Storage

G. Global Wind Resources

H. Long Range Economics

I. Wind Properties vs. Altitude

J. Clean Electricity For The Future World

K. About Us

Google meter on September 18, 2009: 24,800 for "Sky Windpower".
http://tinyurl.com/SkyWindpowerLIFT
Posted 11.21.2005 PopSci.com Windmills in the Sky
Historical informal talk by David H. Shepard
1980s ...recognizing Bryan Robert's work. Video In 2002, David contacted Roberts again.
David H. Shepard   (R.I.P., age 84, 2007)
David Hammond Shepard. Birthday: Sept.30.
Len Shepard       Leonard G. Shepard   (son of David H. Shepard)
P. J. Shepard       PJ       Daughter of David H. Shepard, sister of Leonard Shepard,
                                     Technical Marketing Engineer
AWECS patents by David H. Shepard
- Patent number: 4659940
  Filing date: Oct 11, 1985
  Issue date: Apr 21, 1987
  Power generation from high altitude winds
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High-Flying Windmills Blow Away Their Ground-Based Cousins
Reach for the sky: Could flying wind farms help beat global warming
"Joby & Makani's flygen concepts require camber or rotation reversing for high turbine efficiency as they do both thrust & power extraction without reversing airflow." DS
Sky Wind Power's concept won't have to camber or rotation reverse, merely change from generation to motoring blade pitch setting (from neg to pos pitch), as its turbines reverse airflow. ds " M495

Sky Wind Power pre-incorporation associated photo of 1986:
http://www.skywindpower.com/ww/Aust-test.htm
Upon the courtesy of PJ Shepard and her research:
[[The "myself" in the paragraph below is Bryan Roberts.]]

Bryan replied and said,

"This photo was taken, I believe, on or about May 1986. The twin-rotor craft was approx. in the autorotation state in the photo. Generation was done briefly in another test, which is shown in the video attached to the SWP website. [[Videos]]

The craft had rotors 12 feet in diameter and weighed 64 lbs. The people in the photo ( reading from left to right in the photo) are Hasso Nibbe, Alan Fien, Grahame Levitt and myself. All were employees of the University of Sydney. The tests were undertaken on the University's "Mt. Pleasant Farm" at Marulan in New South Wales. The wind was onto our backs at about 15 knots thereabouts."

2010 March 1-3: Three HAWP companies had booths at ARPA-E Technology Showcase, Gaylord Convention Center, Washington, DC. Investment and showcasing by HAWP entities: Joby Energy, Sky Windpowr, Magenn Power directed visitors to each other's booths.
2010 March 6. Eight airborne wind energy technology entity leaders in USA held a telephone conference and decided without objection to propose a modification to bill HR 3165; the primary line-item proposed modification entered to a congressional member was the inclusion of "airborne wind energy technology." Wind Energy Research and Development Act of 2009 Len Shepard and PJ Shepard represented Sky Windpower in the national phone conference.
2010 ... images and notes in some coming books