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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• [ ] "The two aerostats are connected to the ground via tethers through which power and data is transmitted. The tethers enables the aerostats to operate at altitudes of up to 15,000 feet and contain power lines, fiber-optic data lines and Kevlar-strengthened strands surrounded by an insulated protective sleeve."    QuoteSource
• [ ] JLENS System
• [ ] Hilary Costello
• [ ] http://www.energykitesystems.net/DavidsonTechnology/   Davidson Technology