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How to determine the pull of a kite
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Subject: How to determine the pull of a kite
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From: engel@irisa.fr (Jean-Christophe Engel)
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Date: 22 Sep 1993 08:07:23 GMT
This is a rather technical and more or less theoretical question.
I wonder whether and how it is possible to determine the pull of a kite with a given
area, making a given angle with the wind, blowing with a given velocity ? I dot not mean by empirical trial/error process, but rather with aerodynamics theory.
Is there a (simple or simplified) formula that gives the relationship between kite
area, angle and wind velocity (and maybe other factors that I'm missing).
I must admit that my classes of physics have already faded away, but that I'd be
glad to refresh them.
Any aerodynamics wizzard out there in the sky ???
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Jean-Christophe Engel - engel@irisa.fr
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