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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other glossaries of interest

  • LA liquid air

  • LAAWE low-altitude AWE

  • Ladder kite AWE4544

  • Ladder kites (single line ladder kite, loop ladder kite)

  • InGroupAWESforLaddermill

  • Laddermill, Ladder Mill, LadderMill LaddermillGENERAL

    • laddermill energy Art1

    • Laddermill power plant Vid1

    • Laddermill Project Vid1

    • Laddermill sailing Art1 GenLink

    • Laddermill ship

    • Distinguish types of laddermills

      • Without main lifter kite set above the loop of rungs

      • With main lifter kite set above the loop of rungs

        • Non-LTA

        • LTA

        • Hybids

      • Stark non-gaining downing rungs

      • Stark gaining downing rungs

      • Selsam, Shepard , Ockels,

      • "KiteLab has tested several of the laddermill-like ideas. Ron Welty has a nice
        concept. Pumping trains are a ladderlike configuration under active study. Alex
        Bolonkin has ladderlike ideas like Wayne's sideways ladder mill. These develop
        power both ways (no idle return side)." ds

  • LAES liquid-air energy storage

  • LAGI Land Art Generator Initiative http://landartgenerator.org/project.html

  • laissez-faire

  • laminar flowText not available

  • laminate sails

  • Lamson, Charles H.

    • "Octave Chanute's 1902 oscillating, multiwing wing glider built by Charles H. Lamson in Pasadena, Ca. With Chanute present, Augustus Herring tested this glider at Kill Devil Hills, October 5-14 1902. Note on reverse "Pasadena, Sept 8 - 1902." Source See triplane canard and tailed glider photo. [Thanks to ARP for lead]

  • land

  • landing

  • landing hang gliders

  • landing operations

  • landing stand

  • landing zone, required landing zone

  • landkite, land kite Ozone Manual

  • landkiting

  • land use per ________.

  • land-use model

  • Lang David Lang

  • Lang's Challenge :: AWE running with little human attention for 700 hours. Milestone yet to be reached by AWE.
    Lang's Challenge :: AWE running with little human attention for 700 hours. LC is a target yet to be reached. Send in what you know towards this target: Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net

    The LC might be easier to achieve than one might first think. Consider a Tipping Boom system with short tether in a nearly no-wind site; the wind picks up a bit and the kite drives the generator. Let 700 hours pass and presto, the AWE system could be said to have been running. What say you?

  • LAPs Low altitude platforms. See distinct HAPs for high altitude platforms. Art1

  • lapse rate wiki

  • LARA (Low Aspect Ratio Annular) rescue parachute

  • larboard left

  • larch wiki/Larch

  • large annular diameter generators M231

  • large kite

  • large kite launching system

  • large-scale electricity production

  • larks-head knot, yo-yo knot, larks head Study
    Open end circle with two finger; go through and grab the stem; pull stem throuth the circle; hold the new double circle and the double circle encloses the knot of the other line. Cinch the double circle about the stem of the other line. Video.

  • lasers in kiting systems and AWES Discuss at: AWES6663

    • Beam power to wings. Powerbeaming. power beaming.

    • Beam power from wings to ground receptors or airborne receptors

    • Beam power through optical cable or tethers

    • manufacturing sails using laser cutters

    • http://lasermotive.com/

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  • lateral area distribution

  • lateral area distribution effect

  • lateral dynamic energy harvesting

  • lateral dynamic maneuvering

  • lath, laths sticks

  • lattice See: airborne lattice

  • lattice gases AirborneWindEnergy/message/8491

  • latticework AWES7525

  • Lattice AWECS, latticeAWE, latticeAWECS, lattice-works AWE, lattice AWE,

  • laundry, kite laundry, kite laundry WECs, line WECs

  • launch kite system

    • blown launch

    • launch of a hang glider

    • launch of a power kite

    • launch of a commercial AWES

    • launch of a kite arch

    • launch of a kite train

    • Discuss at message/7469
      Options for launching groundgen AWES
      1. Stepped towing by ground-based drivers
      2. Towing (moving servant, powered winch, via mass dropping, via river drogue, etc.)
      3. Phased pumping or tugging
      4. AWES taxi
      5. Ambient wind, conventional launch
      6. LTA pilot lifter
      7. Low-wind kite lifter
      8. LTA total AWES
      9. Blowing fan to form artificial wing
      10. Railgun launcher
      11. Drop from powered aircraft or aerostat
      12. Slingshot
      13. Rocket the wing set
      14. Catapult
      15. Toss
      16. Rotating stem
      17. mass driverorelectromagnetic catapult
      18. Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System(commonlyEMALS)
      19. launch-land demonstrations Discuss: NTS promoting AWE railway as tow-launching means
      20. Snatch method: AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/topics/12106 Powered flying aircraft snatches the kite line and kites the snatched wing into the air. This was used to snatch the glider wings in WWII.

    launching kite

  • launching ways

    • Structure that assist in the launching of a hang glider or aircraft or kite system

    • Methods of launching

    • launch off water into air AWES7577

    • combinations of flight-and-submarine kite operations

    • https://youtu.be/Vwp2Kz_nkiU Use drones to start AWES. Use drones to start cascade of a train kite system or arch kite system, etc.

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  • lightsail 1Ref Carl Willey

  • lightsailing

  • light sailing

  • light sail solar sail photon sail
    Tethering such sails can occur. Bi-sail coupling in space can occur. See also magsails.

  • light sails

  • lightcraft Wiki

  • light craft

  • lighter-than-air kytoon

  • lighter-than-air solid LTAS

  • lighter-than-water, tethered, sea-current turbine generator

  • light kite

  • light kiting
    Tether space kite to space bodies or to opposing space light kite. Micro light kite or large format light space kites. Applications conceived are several: communications, transport, energy production, ... Historical: 1924c Russian spaceflight pioneer Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii and his colleague, Friedrich Zander

  • light dynamic soaring

  • lightning

    • lightning arrestor

    • lightning damage

    • lightning mitigation

    • lightning risk

    • lightning safe

    • lightning safety circuit

    • lightning strike sustainability

    • "Lightning is only the final discharge of the static electricity, whether that lightning is intra-cloud lightning, cloud-to-ground lightning, or inter-cloud lightning. Other types of final discharges are known as heat lightning, summer lightning, sheet lightning, ribbon lightning, silent lightning, ball lightning, bead lightning, elves, jets, and sprites. Well before these discharges are observed, as the atmosphere becomes agitated by wind or thermal activity, static electricity is being generated. " Source. by Mark Ellery Ogram


  • Lilienthal See "Otto Lilienthal"

  • limp

  • Todd Lind [master mechanic from heavy machinery to bikes, with experience in wildland firefighting that he is applying to kite fire-fighting (& irrigation). He is daily advancing kite tech volunteering at KiteLab, Ilwaco, Washington]

  • Lindenberg Observatory in Prussia and its kite history

  • line

    • manja

    • pipa (Portuguese for kite)

    • de-tensioning Our First upload!

    • pitch lines

    • steering lines

    • brake lines

    • kill lines

    • douse lines

    • anchor lines

    • loadpath lines

    • See and contribute to Line Encyclopedia (LEP) with an eye on kite systems, AWES, kite energy,

  • linear alternator

  • linearAWE versus cyclicAWE

  • linear motion

  • line climber, line rider, line sailor, line slider, line sliding, line messengers,

  • line cutter

  • line-dig problem when storing tensed line on a reel or winch drum or core. Mitigation of this problem.

  • line drag

  • line droop, line sag

  • Line Encyclopedia Project (LEP), Line Encyclopedia, a publication by Upper Windpower.
    Mission statement: LEP is to be a free Internet-based encyclopedia about lines for the purpose of increasing the safety and success of kiting activities.

  • line generator

    • electric generator from use of line dynamics

    • production of line

    • linear generator

  • line grabber

    • Rod Read: "kite rocket line grabber"

  • line hazard avoidance

  • line junk

  • Line laundry

  • line lifter

  • LineLifter

  • line lifting arch

  • line mass

  • line oscillation

  • line over, line overs,

  • line payout meter

  • line loadpath network or rope loadpath network (essence of ripstop textile; the net married to sail; the load is mainly taken by the net of cords, ropes, lines). Domina Jalbert discovered for himself how less-massive sails could be by employing line loadpath methods.

  • line sag, line droop

  • line shuttle LS11

  • line splices [[Do not trust factory line splices. Bob Moore]] [[Consider splice-free line lots.]]

  • line stretch

  • line tension

  • line tension maintenance

  • line torsion

  • line tree (the up-going set of bridle lines holding a parafoil kite which secondarily may be used in free-flight paragliding, governable parachutes, energy-kites, etc. ) Use1

  • line unwinding

  • line unwinding phase, lines unwinding phase This phase may be a power production phase or not, depending on the kite system or AWES

  • line wrapping

  • linkage

  • linkages

  • links

  • LiPo battey Lithium polymer | Lithium-ion polymer batteries,polymer lithium ion, or more commonlylithium polymer batteries(abbreviated Li-poly, Li-Pol, LiPo, LIP, PLI or LiP)

  • liquid air (LA)

    • liquid air economy (LAE)

    • Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)

    • DSUTWP is a group that is looking at LA as part of an untethered AWES system

    • Just what roles LA might play in energy kite systems is an open question as of 2013.

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  • lithium receiver batteries

  • lithium transmitter batteries

  • Little Eagle? by Joe Faust for high-speed hang gliding via busable hang glider; 2010.

  • Little Hawk? by Bob Kuczewski in 2010 for a wide-public introduction to hang gliding via a small wing not meant for flight. In January of 2012, Bob and JoeF hopped the Little Hawk at the precise site of the first public demo site of Icarus I by Taras Kiceniuk.

  • Lissajous patters, Lissajous figures. Study

  • LLJ, LLJs See low level jets |

    • German-Archer Jets: LLJ, local maxima. Wayne German and Cristina Archer. LLJ wind maxima zone AWES7422

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  • LO low-observable technology wiki/Stealth_technology

  • LOA length over all, distance from bow to stern, distance from most forward to most rearward M2846

  • load

  • load center

  • load curtains

  • load damping devices (hydraulic damper, snubbing lines, drag reels, ...)

  • loadings

  • load limiter, line load limiter

  • localAWE

  • lock

  • lock and unlock

  • locked-up tips

  • lofted-base-station AWE

  • loiter unloaded

  • Loomis Mahlon Loomis

    • http://www.carnetdevol.org/Wireless/loomis.html

    • http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/KiteApplications/message/113

    • AirborneWindEnergy/message/9386

    • http://earlyradiohistory.us/129971.htm

    • "In spite of the fact that, due to glaring scientific flaws, there is no evidence that his idea could have ever worked, Loomis became obsessed with the vision that harnessing atmospheric electricity was destined to be one of the most revolutionary developments in the history of the world"

    • "They are all convertible elements. And this electrical essence will yet melt the icebergs in the seas of Thor, and vessels may ride in safety on their "Northern passage," the entire globe made more productive, all malaria cleared from the atmosphere and the entire climates of this our planet toned and tempered by it."

    • " And if this my plan which promises so much for the benefit of man is erroneous or unimportant then prick it as a bubble and expose its empty nothingness. But meantime I am firm in the faith that this immense belt, like the rings around our sister planet Saturn, will yet form the halo of greatness and intelligence about our heads. "

  • v

  • loop zipline loop, pulley loop

  • loop frequency

  • looping kite

  • looping kite's tethers

  • looping parafoil LP AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/10924

  • looping wing

  • loop of kiteplanes

  • LoopLadderMill Schematic of LoopLadderMill by Harry Valentine

  • loop methods

  • loop tactics

  • LoopTether or FanBelt (several arrangements: non-working downside Laddermill, PermaLiftedUpDownLoop (wings work up and wings work down to drive the loop without losses; the PermaLifter buoys past neutral to maintain loop tension; three and four pulley arrangements for separation can be explored), PermaLifterTwoLoop (upper working wing-saturated loop and moving lower loop tether), LiftedTorsionFanBelt, ... Collaborative open-source projects here: Send your sub-assembly solutions: Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net or post in AirborneWindEnergy group

  • loss

    • losses

    • catenary loss

    • friction loss

    • material elastic loss

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  • low altitude

  • low-altitude AWE LAAWE

  • low altitude AWE acceptance

  • low-altitude kite energy concepts

  • low altitude platforms LAPs

  • low and slow
    • Low & Slow was the first mid- 1900's for-profit magazine to serve that era's hang gliding renaissance. This took over the non-profit Low, Slow & Out of Control by way of contract between Richard Miller and Joe Faust. Low & Slow became the organ for the international organization Self-Soar Association (S-SA). At 36 issues, it was replaced with Hang Glder magazine as a weekly: Hang Glider Weekly. The same publisher formed the first Hang Gldier Manufacturers Association (short lived) and published a business weekly for such: Hang Glider Business Weekly. All totaled the publisher had 208 editions of hang glider materials. Later the publisher continued publiishing on the Internet. See JoeFaust.org.
    • Low, Slow & Out of Control was a non-profit approx. 30-subscribered newsletter by Richard Miller within the fraternity of the Soaring Society of America dedicated to hang gliders and foot-launch sailplanes. Circa 1967

  • Loyd. Miles Loyd. Strong inventor: Patent:

    Wind driven apparatus for power generation

    Miles L. Loyd


    Major article on cross-wind kiting.

  • Loyd's Limit Art1PB

  • Loy Hooded Kite Ref1 John W. Loy U.S. Patent 4,243,191
    Text not available

  • LP looping parafoil kPower A type of looping wing arrangement.

  • LSA

  • LTA lighter-than-air LTA/index.html

  • LTAKPS Lighter-than-air KitePower System.
    See also: aerostat KitePower System (AKPS)

  • LTAS lighter-than-air solid

  • LTD Lift to drag ratio. L/D

  • LTD lighter-than-water

  • luff

    • wiki/Luff

    • " Luff: when a kite's angle of attack becomes suddenly negative and the line(s) go loose." PL, himself.

  • luffing

  • luff lines

  • lull

  • lying eight

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