Designing a kiteplane, and a little on how to control it

Engineering Crosswind Kites / Planes
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Are there already similar topics or comments or studies?

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A presentation from AWEC2019: https://av.tib.eu/media/50218

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Off-topic but still related:

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Autonomous Slope Soaring - RCTESTFLIGHT

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ArduPilot stuff - iforce2d playlist

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Also linked to here: Makani Archives

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Ornithopter Research by Prof James DeLaurier MRAeS

This talks about the swing test, for kites instead of model rockets, using just your arms, which looks like an excellent first test of your kite to me:

Learning About the Flight Stability with a Tethered Paper Plane:

Rocket stability explanation and testing with swing tests: Rocket Stability - YouTube

This is doing manually what a whirling arm can do non-manually.

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X-56 Moment of Inertia Tests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQJ2sVQrUA

ProjectAir - Simplest Helicopter Ever? Simplest Helicopter Ever? - YouTube

AIR Lab (SUTD) - AIM 2020 - Concurrent Optimization of Flapless Samara (Voice Presentation) AIM 2020 - Concurrent Optimization of Flapless Samara (Voice Presentation) - YouTube

AIR Lab (SUTD) - YouTube

Weixuan Zhang - The Monospinner: a controllable flying vehicle with a single moving part The Monospinner: a controllable flying vehicle with a single moving part - YouTube

Evan - World’s first controllable MAV monocopter, Robotic Samara (maple seed) World's first controllable MAV monocopter, Robotic Samara (maple seed) - YouTube

Tim Station - How I built a Swashplateless Helicopter How I built a Swashplateless Helicopter - YouTube

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rctestflight - Can a Solid Wood Airplane Actually Fly??? - YouTube

From the comments:

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AWEbox: An Optimal Control Framework for Single- and Multi-Aircraft Airborne Wind Energy Systems

GitHub - awebox/awebox: Modelling and optimal control of single- and multiple-kite systems for airborne wind energy

An older presentation by Christoph Sieg from KiteSwarms 34C3 - Drones of Power: Airborne Wind Energy. He shows some nice graphs. He shows for example the optimal harvesting height, and also videos of tests.

The reason for posting it here, from minute 23:40 he talks about AWEsome: An open-source test platform for airborne wind energy systems. See also the project above that built on its code.

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Instability: The Future of Drones? - Think Flight about trying to design an efficient flying wing and controlling it with ArduPilot.


*MEGA-FAST 200MPH ! * RC PYLON RACERS Competition Race (BMFA NATS 2017)

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200 MPH+ control line ORANGE MONSTER HIGH SPEED PULSE JET

More on control line flying: Random interesting links - #16 by Windy_Skies

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New videos:

CV4 line climber with Altitude Hold - sandydoggy2

CV4/StarPod 3.22 First fully automatic flight profile -sandydoggy2

A static kiteplane not supported by a lifter kite, and flying autonomously: DV-3D, StarPilot+ with Proportional Guard Rails:

Previous mentions on the forum:

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