Stupid ideas I sometimes get, but would never follow up on. :)

[Deleted member 170519]

My mind seems to get some crazy ideas the older I get.
Was wondering if anyone ever tried launching a kite with its string attached to a drone?

 

[Big Bro]

Yeah, what a great idea! What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Deleted member 170519]

Yeah, what a great idea! What could possibly go wrong?

I know, Right?

 

[old man mavic]

well it would certainly bring a whole new concept to a fly away (sorry blow away)

 

[Rchawks]

Yeah and not one of those lame paper kites either, but a stunt kite with two lines that way you could use two drones with that much power you could actually make it work. Let us know how it goes.......

 

[GregS]

My mind seems to get some crazy ideas the older I get.
Was wondering if anyone ever tried launching a kite with its string attached to a drone?

I'm on the beach in Florida and was watching some flying kites and how they suddenly zoomed up and down and crashed. I would be concerned with that 'up' part.

 

[careless]

My mind seems to get some crazy ideas the older I get.
Was wondering if anyone ever tried launching a kite with its string attached to a drone?

You could launch the drone upside down

 

[Deleted member 170519]

well it would certainly bring a whole new concept to a fly away (sorry blow away)

Mine was just a stupid idea crossing my mind while flying out in the wind. I would never try it,
But... someone did...

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[Rchawks]

Well there you go.

 

[millbah]

But..... Why would we want to do that? Launching by kite?

 

[Deleted member 170519]

But..... Why would we want to do that? Launching by kite?

We wouldn't want to do that. It was a hair brained idea that I put here, then found out that there are several YouTube videos of idiots doing just that.

 

[Torque]

I read your post and immediately went to Google to see if anyone else had your hair brained idea. And as you have pointed out, you are not alone...lol.
I did find this paper that I thought was interesting, it is just the opposite, using a kite to launch drones:

https://rdw.rowan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=etd

 

[Deleted member 170519]

I read your post and immediately went to Google to see if anyone else had your hair brained idea. And as you have pointed out, you are not alone...lol.
I did find this paper that I thought was interesting, it is just the opposite, using a kite to launch drones:

https://rdw.rowan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=etd

I saw that as well.

 

[cameracamel]

My mind seems to get some crazy ideas the older I get.
Was wondering if anyone ever tried launching a kite with its string attached to a drone?

My mind seems to get some crazy ideas the older I get.
Was wondering if anyone ever tried launching a kite with its string attached to a drone?

My mind seems to get some crazy ideas the older I get.
Was wondering if anyone ever tried launching a kite with its string attached to a drone?

How about towing a water skier with a drone?

 

[Deleted member 170519]

How about towing a water skier with a drone?

Why not. They do it the other way around... tow a kite skier with a boat. Would be an awful big drone to be able to pull the skier up out of the water though. LOL. They do have unmanned skiing machines though

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[ImpossibleTom]

As a kite flyer for over 40 years and a drone pilot I could figure out some ways to do it but have better ways to spend my time. A stiff tube mounted to bottom of drone to keep line behind & keep the lines out of the props. Probably good these guys didn't have a knife to cut the kite down as they are prolly stoned and might hurt themselves. Funny.

 

[Deleted member 170519]

As a kite flyer for over 40 years and a drone pilot I could figure out some ways to do it but have better ways to spend my time. A stiff tube mounted to bottom of drone to keep line behind & keep the lines out of the props. Probably good these guys didn't have a knife to cut the kite down as they are prolly stoned and might hurt themselves. Funny.

I used to fly RC Gliders back in the 80s. There were two ways to launch, tow with a powered plane or slingshot from the ground. I can actually see using a drone as a tow with the right rigging.

 

[anotherlab]

As a kite flyer for over 40 years and a drone pilot I could figure out some ways to do it but have better ways to spend my time. A stiff tube mounted to bottom of drone to keep line behind & keep the lines out of the props. Probably good these guys didn't have a knife to cut the kite down as they are prolly stoned and might hurt themselves. Funny.

It was a real "hold my beer, I'm gonna try something" moment.

 

[Wangodetango]

My mind seems to get some crazy ideas the older I get.
Was wondering if anyone ever tried launching a kite with its string attached to a drone?

Maybe you could demo this at this summers Lincoln city kite festival?

 

[Deleted member 170519]

Maybe you could demo this at this summers Lincoln city kite festival?

Not happening... but I used to fly duel line sport kites there when I lived in Depoe Bay