I experimented different VAWT. The only two being able to fly as a kite was a Savonius-like using Magnus effect and the Sharp rotor using Magnus/Kramer effect.
VAWT based on Darrieus design don’t fly as such. Some other VAWT could perhaps fly using Sharp’s “cycloturbine using computer-controlled blade-pitching” configuration. Perhaps derived design from the Active Lift Turbine as explained in the present topic could also fly. Deeper analyses and tests could show it, or not.
Some precision as rotors based on Savonius design and also the Sharp rotor are very different from VAWT of type Darrieus that use lift in a comparable way as HAWT.