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[Windy_Skies]

https://forum.awesystems.info/t/air-as-the-main-structural-element/942/9

I’m considering splitting this recent exchange from the topic if no answer to this is given:

@Rodread

Fanciful was the word I used to describe this notion…

How to manipulate objects with structural Air vortices:

Spin up an artificial tornado between two rotors. An object caught in the resulting vortex can be moved back and forth between rotors, according to which rotor is comparatively driving, and which driven. The manipulator vortex can be switched between new rotors or be dragged around by moving rotors.

This is Air as dynamically structural, without envelopes.

Can you provide an example of how this works? A reference, a diagram, a calculation?
Is it about air as a structural element?

And answer to this could be “I can’t provide examples.” I also fail to see a relevant use case.

Some comments should perhaps also be moderated out of principle:

@kitefreak

According to relativistic physics, a kite does indeed accrue extra mass “at high speed”

Let’s not hope we are trying to accelerate kites to relativistic speeds in our, or any, atmosphere.