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?
Was wondering if anyone ever tried launching a kite with its string attached to a drone?
Yeah, what a great idea! What could possibly go wrong?
well it would certainly bring a whole new concept to a fly away (sorry blow away)
Rchawks
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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.......
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GregS
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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
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Mine was just a stupid idea crossing my mind while flying out in the wind. I would never try it,
But... someone did...
Rchawks
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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.But..... Why would we want to do that?Launching by kite?
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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:
I did find this paper that I thought was interesting, it is just the opposite, using a kite to launch drones:
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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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
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It was a real "hold my beer, I'm gonna try something" moment.
Wangodetango
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Not happening... but I used to fly duel line sport kites there when I lived in Depoe BayMaybe you could demo this at this summers Lincoln city kite festival?
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