Sled Kite Research

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Ariel Baker
Ashton Pilz
River C.
M. Boykins
Mr. West
7th hour Science
April 10, 2014

River C:
The original design of the sled kite has two straight spars running down the kite, and a tail at each end of the spars. The pressure from the air keeps the kite open while it flies. There are many different variations of this type of kite. One-way is the over all size, but some sleds are less than 3 feet long. Extra spars are less common and rare on sled kites. A wide tail, vent holes near the bottom instead of tails, and inflatable spars. These are just a few ideas to start on. The size is a big contender for a sled kite. There was once a kite located at a Dutch Kite Festival that was over 45 feet long! The smallest kite that has been flown as a sled kite design was 1 foot long. The variation on extra spars is for it to run right down the middle of the sail, with no bridle lines attached. Non-parallel spars that were close together, and therefore the kite had a tapered look while in flight. Many people decided to use parallel spars now a days, cause the others had problems. Vent holes are a very popular add-on to the sled kite. It has a useful purpose of allowing the kite to fly without anything attached on the bottom. The vents do not work if they are falling behind the kite, and do not have the right amount of air flowing through it. We are playing on doing a sled kite with two inflatable spars with vent holes. This is a very out of the box idea, but with high risk can also come with high reward. There will be a lot of rough drafts, and many mistrials but we will figure out the aerodynamics of this.

M Boykins:
The sled kite has not always been used as a children’s toy. The first sled kite design was named to William Allison of...

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...r. The kite is folded more closely together; therefore they have been a very popular style to many flyers. The next kite we’ll be introducing is the keeled sled. This kite puts a spin on things with 2/3 spars. It really is a hybrid between all of the variations. This kite includes 2 spars, 1 keel, which both have a bridle, and 6 vents. Multi- Sleds are put parallel to each other. They usually combine different types of decorations, and they also save 1 spar, and a bridle fan. One of the biggest problems with the sled hybrids are they are more prone to collapse in windy weather. The way that most people fix this problem is by using a cross spreader that fits into the wings. By doing this, it adds an extra boost for the weight. The biggest exponent for the sled is the simple way of producing it. A twin spar delta is basically just a double-canopied multi-vented sled.

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