Two kites orbiting each other do not need roll control

Sorry for the couple months off the radar. It was super hard but we managed to make our system rotate stably with neither a lifter nor active control surfaces. Funnily enough, the system gets more and more stable the longer the tethers are (up to a point).

You might notice that the base is now powering the rotation. This change was to avoid breaking too many motors, because there were a lot of crashes before we managed to build the wings correctly. We probably will come back to self-propelled wings at some point.

Feel free to comment on the post if you want a quick reply, I don’t always check this forum.

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