What's the story with kite-reeling?

[PierreB]

@dougselsam

Pierre, you have repeated for what, maybe 6 or 7 years, the supposed high power output numbers from Skysails’ testing, every time I openly questioned kite-reeling, which is good to consider, but at some point meaningless if that was the end of the story.

Indeed, SkySails has reached quite high values (average 92 kW), sufficient for the reeling-kite (yo-yo) mode to be the mainstay of the AWE field.

See also an achievement of high values with the 5000 m² Chinese parachute, also in reeling mode, also with a flexible flying body.