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- From: jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk (John Nicoll)
- Newsgroups: rec.kites
- Subject: Flexifoils: how do they work?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.132019.12311@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:20:19 GMT
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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- Having built my flexifoil (see recnt postings), I've been
- discussing with colleagues how they actually fly. The
- side view of a Flexi- is a sort of inverted wing shape,
- and we have speculated that it the downward `lift`
- levers around the leading spar to align the kite
- at an angle to the wind - almost 90 degrees, as it happens.
- But I'm not sure where all that `forward' velocity comes from,
- nor how the bending of the spar affects things.
-
- Anyone else have any thoughts on these matters?
-
- john N
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