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Look how they test wings - and this picture is also on wiki as L/D explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-to-drag_ratio

Its one of best explanation of L/D for kiters.

The angle of the tether reflects the dramatic improvement in the lift-to-drag ratio

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You just cannot resist kiting there

reminds me of me testing the flying kitewing. It just needs a height rudder and remote control:

Otto Lilienthal. Lawrence Hargrave. Know your history!!

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Tue May 14, 2019 11:59 am

Otto Lilienthal. Lawrence Hargrave. Know your history!!

Maybe not the first, but you don’t think the Wrights were kite pioneers? All their work on controllable flight, wing warping, wing flaps, using wind tunnels, determining that Otto’s numbers were wrong, and they didn’t get killed stalling out like Otto.

And since this is kite related, we can’t consider that they later built their own engines, and props that were efficient, flew the longest and highest flights back in the day.

More importantly - in OBX