- A
kytoon or kite
balloon is a
tethered aircraft which obtains some of its lift
dynamically as a heavier-than-air kite and the rest
aerostatically as a...
- in 1944,
emphatically changed the kite
airscape for
inflatable kites.
Kytoons and
balloon kites are
inflatable kites.
Kites sometimes combine ram-air...
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hybrid airship or by
tethering in the wind like a kite, as a
Helikite or
kytoon. The
Allsopp Helikite is a
combination of a
helium balloon and a kite to...
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novel thrust / lift
solutions (e.g. coleopter,
Flying Bedstead,
Avrocar and
flettner airplane) or balloon-wing
hybrids (e.g.
kytoon and
hybrid airship)....
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virtual or real wind
blowing over and
under them to
generate lift and drag.
Kytoons are balloon-kite
hybrids that are
shaped and
tethered to
obtain kiting...
-
novel thrust / lift
solutions (e.g. coleopter,
Flying Bedstead,
Avrocar and
flettner airplane) or balloon-wing
hybrids (e.g.
kytoon and
hybrid airship)....
-
Pontoon paravane (analogy to air-kite
kytoon kite) used in
seismic array investigations....
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novel thrust / lift
solutions (e.g. coleopter,
Flying Bedstead,
Avrocar and
flettner airplane) or balloon-wing
hybrids (e.g.
kytoon and
hybrid airship)....
- War.
Kites were also used for anti-aircraft
target practice.
Kites and
kytoons were used for
lofting communications antenna.
Submarines lofted observers...
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United States in
using nuclear weapons to
excavate large amounts of earth.
Kytoon balloons were used on
Indian Springs Air
Force Base, Nevada,
April 20, 1952...
