Two kites orbiting each other do not need roll control

Great to see an analytic approach to multi kite rotation.

My gung ho experimentation led to this test which likely confirms your ideas on the benefit of lateral tethers coming from the inner tip of kite blades


There’s 2 rotors in a TRPT stack here
The top rotor is intact
The lower rotor is disintegrating, The main ring snapping behind the trailing edge of the fuselage.
The main difference between the 2 rotors was where the radial centre lines attached around the ring. On the top rotor 3 of the lines attached to the inner tips of the 3 rotors, the other 3 lines attached to the subsequent midpoints of the ring.
On the lower failing rotor the lateral lines all go to the ring (and ahead of the blade fuselage) … All the centripetal force on the blade fuselage was torquing the blades forward around the lateral line connection, resulting in too much stress on the ring behind the fuselage.

Very interesting, I was actually going to move towards 3 wings at some point for redundancy, and attach them in a triangle instead of a star. What you are saying makes me rethink that triangle connection a little bit. I’ll see what simulations give first I guess, because the wings would not be connected exactly at the same place. The simulation can’t handle a 3 wings system yet so it will take some time.

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I believe @tallakt 's work on pyramid does a 3 blade rotor sim if that helps

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