A Quantitative study of kite performance in natural wind with application to kite anemometry

Although kites have been around for hundreds of years and put to many uses, there has so far been no systematic study of their performance. This research attempts to fill this need, and considers particularly the performance of kite anemometers. An instrumented kite tether was designed and built to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hobbs, Stephen
Other Authors: Schaefer, G. W.
Format: Others
Language:en_UK
Published: Cranfield University 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1826/918