Imagine having a depower line that feeds through the center and exits the end of the bar’s leading edge, through a sock, and then attaches to your harness. You could pull that to depower and slide the sock over length of the bar and so on. The depower line could have its own mini bridle to maintain some lift and tension instead of fully collapsing.
If there’s a string hanging off the trailing edge of the kite, you could pull that to deploy it and the wind would help pull it out of the sock.
Or some kind of coil or spring loaded pulley inside the sock that automatically depowers & pulls in the kite when you push a button…
And some mild explosive device like a party popper that shoots it out again…
Speaking of explosives, I would like a co2 or nitrogen tank that triggers on takeoff velocity, and blasts bubbles through pores in my board, breaking the water contact like a puck on an air hockey table.
1: A line of foils where the difference between them is section, not area or span. They all turn, since that’s a must, but there’s a Mike’s lab style fast one, a voodoo magic armie ha one, and one or two in between.
2: a universal lift rating. Beta foil would be maybe 11, some 500cm fast thing is a 1.
Speed range numbers for all foils (stall speed, top speed) would be a nice standard
KT does this if you can track down their leaked PDF brochure.
Ha! Been thinking the same thoughts about dousing spinnaker socks for some time, but can’t figure out how it would work…it seems a dousing sock would need to be part of the handle/lower part of the bridle, so instead of using your hand to collapse and depower the bridle and wing and then have this mess of stuff in your hand/arm to deal with, you’d just pull the sock over and perhaps cinch the open end of the sock and clip in on your vest (???)
Honestly surprised this is the first we’ve seen of this. Having a AR1 squirrel must have been a pretty obvious constraint on glide
But how well does it pump?
I imagine the low end is quite good considering that aft loaded section. Clearly glides well
How stiff is that mast though 
Yeeesh that’s the first flight? I would have thought they would try it from an airplane first.
Reminds me of an idea I had: a glider that propels itself with a weight that goes up and down. Would be a sick science project. Maybe said weight is the battery that powers a servo that lifts and drops it.
A self levelling efoil with a variable weight installed on deck to simulate a human weight. This efoil is designed to test glide, drag, efficiency of all foils as it’s a foil testing rig. To finally answer the questions and to see how foils compare.
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I look forward to the above experiments in flight controller stuff, especially sonar, being coupled with a high performance AR20 moth foils.
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We should remove leashes from wings, and instead add a flight control system, so the wing follows you, and lands in your hand when you’re ready to head back upwind.
This could be where pump foiling has to go to get the giant 20+AR wings to turn better. I wonder if some cleverly placed strain gauges in the mast or wing could work as the control input
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