Are there already similar topics or comments or studies?
A presentation from AWEC2019: https://av.tib.eu/media/50218
Off-topic but still related:
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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.
X-56 Moment of Inertia Tests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQJ2sVQrUA
ProjectAir - Simplest Helicopter Ever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me9bTUYIJ6c
AIR Lab (SUTD) - AIM 2020 - Concurrent Optimization of Flapless Samara (Voice Presentation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D0yzQjINEw
https://www.youtube.com/@airlabsutd2880/videos
Weixuan Zhang - The Monospinner: a controllable flying vehicle with a single moving part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3fM6VwXXFM
Evan - World’s first controllable MAV monocopter, Robotic Samara (maple seed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u23Hqq8QbeE
Charybdis Plans & Article, October 1972 American Aircraft Modeler - Airplanes and Rockets referenced here: How Does This Fly With Only 1 Wing? – RCLifeOn
Tim Station - How I built a Swashplateless Helicopter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31BhQToh_U
rctestflight - Can a Solid Wood Airplane Actually Fly??? - YouTube
From the comments:
AWEbox: An Optimal Control Framework for Single- and Multi-Aircraft Airborne Wind Energy Systems
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.
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)
200 MPH+ control line ORANGE MONSTER HIGH SPEED PULSE JET
More on control line flying: Random interesting links - #16 by Windy_Skies
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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The Most Popular Homebuilt Airplane In The World
An hour-long tour of the Vans Aircraft kit plane factory.