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[PierreB]

Instead of arguing, please study my latest proposal and put your observations, thanks:

Reversible kite

I evoked the concept of reversible kite here and there. The assumption that a large kite which optimizes its swept area cannot turn a lot due to its dimensions in regard to the tether length, leads to another assumption that a symmetric kite could go forth and back, losing some efficiency but perhaps not too much. Let us imagine a flexible single skin (possibly networked) kite of which the span = tether length. In yo-yo mode, the reel-in phase would be at the two ends of the transversal trajec…