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A kite balloon is a tethered balloon which is shaped to help make it stable in low and moderate winds and to increase its lift. It typically comprises a streamlined envelope with stabilising features and a harness or yoke connecting it to the main tether and a second harness connected to an observer's basket.
A captive balloon tends to drift down the wind and the harder the wind blows, the further the balloon drifts. This leans the tether over at an angle, pulling the balloon lower. On a kytoon, the kite action lifts the balloon, counteracting this pull and holding the kytoon in position. As the wind blows harder, the kite action lifts harder.
The SkySails ship propulsion system consists of a large foil kite, an electronic control system for the kite, and an automatic system to retract the kite. The kite, while over ten times larger, bears similarities to the arc kites used in kitesurfing. However, the kite is an inflatable rather than a ram-air kite.
Balloon kites Applies to both lighter- and heavier-than-air kite types. The lighter-than-air balloon kite is the kytoon, which is aloft whether or not the wind blows. When the kytoon is not kiting, it floats aloft as a pure balloon; when it is kiting, it is a true kite. Kytoons are used to loft radio antennas, rescue signals, and kite-line ...
A radiosonde is an automatic radio transmitter in the meteorological aids service usually carried on an aircraft, free balloon, kite or parachute, and which transmits meteorological data. Each radio transmitter shall be classified by the radiocommunication service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.
Kite Balloon. Filing date: April 15, 1944; Kite Balloon. Filing date: August 31, 1945; 2398744 Kite Balloon; Multi-Cell Glide Canopy Parachute D. C. Jalbert; Multi-Cell Wing Type Aerial Device Filing date: October 1, 1964; Multi-Cell Wing Type Aerial Device US Pat. 3285546 – Filed October 1, 1964; Aerial sled Domina C. Jalbert
Parasailing, also known as parascending, is an activity where individuals are harnessed to a modified parachute canopy that is designed to ascend into the air when towed behind a motor vehicle on land, or a recreational boat over water.
These automatically form a triangular shaped parachute [8] which carries the spider away on updrafts of winds where even the slightest of breezes will disperse the arachnid. [7] [8] The Earth's static electric field may also provide lift in windless conditions. [9] [10] Ballooning behavior may be triggered by favorable electric fields. [11] [12]