Laddermill

[PierreB]

@dougselsam

A main feature pf the aerial tramway I originally drew (later called “laddermill”) was that the descending panels would passively glide downward, flying like a passively-depowered kite, pulled along by the cable loop(s), powered mostly by the upward-traveling section. That downward gliding behavior is part of the overall lift that keeps the whole thing in the air. Remember the “airborne” part of AWE… If it were shown to work, someone might then attach a title like “advanced kite network”.

Below are the documents of what was to be called “Laddermill”, from
http://www.speakerfactory.net/wind_old.htm :

From the drawing it seems that the bottom wings are deployed and pushed by the wind generating power by drag, while the top wings come down with an angle of attack leading to lift, which should rather make them go up, which would consequently cancel the rotation movement of the loop. Please some explains @dougselsam ?