Tethers  
These files are to grow via the contributions of members of the AWE community.

• Tether uses
• Smart tethers
• Wire rope
• Tether handling
• Line materials
• Tether visibility
• Safety, accident lessons, preventions,
• Fairing for lines in patents in any nation's patent system
• Patents and line fairings
• Tethered Aviation 
• Tether physics
• Tether claims study
• Patents and line fairings
• Icing and mitigations
• Luminescent tethers, radiating tethers, light-emitting tethers
• Tether aspects
• Spider silk
• AWE4664  Harvesting tether oscillations
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• Tether tactics thread

  Starter (not comprehensive; open for furthering):

  • Single tether
  • Endless-loop tether
  • Double tethering
  • Triple tethering
  • n-count tethering
  • Farm of separated tethers
  • High-count-sparse-curtain tethering 
  • ganged tethers    Have several separate tethers; then guide or gang those tethers into a close trunk arrangement.  A loss of one tether in the trunk set of tethers leaves the other tethers available for tasks.
     
  • gangline, gang line,    "The gangline is the series of ropes, clips, cables, and so on, that attach your team of ________"
     
  • Conductive tether
    • Conduct mechanical energy
    • Conduct vibrations
    • Conduct tugs
    • Conduct light
    • Conduct electricity
    • Conduct kitricity
    • Conduct chemicals
    • Conduct air
    • Conduct objects
    • Conduct water
    • Conduct odor-laddened air
    • Conduct sound
    • Conduct heat
    • Conduct tension
    • Conduct waves
    • Conduct signals
    • Conduct _______
       
  • Move tether set
    • Axially
    • Longitudinally
    • Spatially
    • Oscillationally    AWE4664  Harvesting tether oscillations
    • Compound motions
    • Waves in type
    • ___________
       
  • Material choice
    • Simple
    • Compound
    • Complex
    • ________
       
  • Form
    • Wire
    • Rope
    • Braided
    • Complex
    • Tubular
    • Flat
    • Round
    • ________
       
  • Handling
    • Static no reel
    • Static, but reel at very low tension post flight
    • Active winching in flygen positioning
    • Active winching in groundgen yo-yo generation
    • Low-tension power-flight launch for flygen followed by high-tension flygen kiting
    • Lattice settling
    • Lattice reeling
    • Long-drum winching for wide multiliners
    • Handling equipment
    • Responsible persons
    • __________
       
  • Safety
    • Monitoring aspects
    • Inspection (occasional, continuous, smart, visual, log analysis, ...)
    • Detachment strategy
    • Go-no-go decisions
    • Wear
    • Failure modes
    • Lightning strikes
    • Moisture
    • Temperature
    • UV damage
    • Fatigue
    • Pollutants
    • Defects
    • Icing
    • Shrouding
    • Sealing
    • Detensioning
    • Guides
    • Guards
    • Catastrophic event awareness and prevention
    • Life
    • Responsible persons
    • _________
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