Notes set 4 of April 26, 2005:    Kites of just water project notes:

  • http://www.physicsofsnowcrystals.homestead.com/IceIh.html

  • Will a clever kite builder team with some large water distributor get the first water kite flying? The water industry is large and growing. Consider: http://www.medicinalfoodnews.com/vol08/issue2/superwater.htm  and  http://www.silksprings.com/PAGES/high_end_super_water.htm    Claims are flying; what we are after is to fly some water as a kite!

  • The 21st Century energy base might be involving hydrogen with water the safe by-product; the kite world's coming water kite might be part of the signal of a better world in the new energy base.

  • rime, snow, snowflake, ice crystals, ice fabric, icicle, icicles

  • Ions of hydrogen

  • Ions of oxygen

  • Will pure light water serve some of our kite purposes better than normal water? Extract the heavy water from regular water and have pure light water. Sometimes normal water is called light water, but normal water has some heavy water in it. 

  • Protium

  • Hydrogen ions: ""Protium has an atomic mass of 1. Deuterium adds a neutron to the single proton of hydrogen nuclei and so has a mass of 2. Tritium, the third isotope, has two neutrons, hence atomic mass 3 and is unstable, decaying to helium-3 with a 12.3-year half-life."" ::
    http://www.cns-snc.ca/Bulletin/A_Miller_Heavy_Water.pdf   Enlarging read...

  • Heavy water     D2O   Deuterium oxide. Deuterium oxide is made from the isotope of hydrogen that contains one neutron and one proton.     Will heavy water have any advantages over regular water for the kite project?  http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/D2O.html  and http://www.heavywaterboard.org/docs/faq.htm and ""An H2O ice cube is shown to float in a beaker of liquid water, while an ice cube of D2O (heavy water) is shown to sink in liquid water."" ... http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA2/MAIN/ICECUBE/CD2R1.HTM   Will heavy water lead to stronger kite elements for the water kite?

  • Super water

  • Will liquid nitrogen be a part of some ice-kiter's field tools?

  • Phases of ice (fourteen)

  • Airplane water kites

  • Various crystalline structures of water ice from needles to flats with all sorts of shapes between.

  • Temperature and pressure used when an ice crystal is formed

  • Stable and unstable phases of water ice

  • Tubes --thin-walled water-ice tubes

  • Ice fabric

  • Ice sheets  (distinguish from terms in glacier science)

  • Ice structures

  • Dendrite

  • Growing synthetic snowflakes or designer snowflakes http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/designer1/designer1.htm

  • Basil Mason

  • Snow Crystals, by Wilson Bentley (1865-1931) http://snowflakebentley.com/

  • Snow crystals

  • Snowflake kites

  • Do you see kites on this page? http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm

  • Largest snowflake? Smallest kite line? Marriage? Presto....Water Kite. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=53605 "CHECK THIS OUT...
    A snowflake can take up to two hours to reach the ground and even the heaviest snowflakes fall at one mile per hour."     Fly the kited snowflake in 1.1 mph wind?  Small kite: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/gwr5/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=53076

  • http://www.ce.jhu.edu/sarwade/ice/chronicle.html thin-shell ice structures gives some experience in what might be part of successful ice kites.  Have a form that will release from the ice; spray water to the airfoil rig to get portions of the kite. Later water-weld the pieces of the airfoil together to form the kite wanted.

  • Ice sculpturing will have some lessons for the ice-kite builder. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ice+scultures&btnG=Search

  • http://www.nica.org/  Ice Sculpture

  • In making the kite sails, what methods will bring excellent results? Will spray be good? Will drip? Will working with existing snow work best? What temperature should be used for forms? What release mechanisms will work best to release the sail-shell from the working form?

  • http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/comparison/13.jpg   Natural water ice needles

  • Will rigid airfoils bring neat success?

  • Will we find some high-interesting air temperatures in which to fly the water-ice kites?

  • Will "ice-foam" become part of the structures of some successful water kites?

  • Will some structures benefit from using thin-flake top ice sheet oriented in different directions as layers are stacked?

  • Will ice-forms made in space stations have qualities superior to ice forms made in earth-gravity manufacturing processes?

  • Would slices of deep-glacial ice be highly beneficial for kite structures for the water kite project?

  • Be sure to take photographs of your Water Kite and its flight session. Record your build notes, costs and lessons.

  • The troublesome icing on aircraft wings might be a call from water: "Let me be a wing!"  Instead of just de-icing the wing, consider deleting the aircraft and just have the icing and then attach a kite line to the shells of ice!  Perhaps not quite that way, but see in this a path to forming wings of ice over a form; the trick in manufacturing is to delete the form and have just the shell; there are various known and used manufacturing methods that do just that.  Balloons that deflate after forming shells on the outside of balloons is a well-grazed method.

  • Physics classes in high school and college  might aim at resolving parts of the water-kite manufacturing program.

  • Falling icicles from eaves of resort buildings, shops and homes have killed people. Kites of water ice are to be respected for their potential to cause damage. Kite safety rules do not yet specifically mention water ice kite cautions. Let this be the first:  Water-ice kites can be dangerous; fly your water kite in a responsible manner.

  • Look at lakes and oceans in a new way: kite material in abundance!

  • Consider the birds having the name of "kite," and and see that they are made of water and some other materials.

  • Consider what happens to thin ice shells that break off of cliffs in the thawing spring and during a windy moment. The pieces of thin shell ice glide and then crack at impact with solid ground. Such water gliders and projectiles have killed animal and humans. Harness the best forms of these shells for making water-ice kites.

  • The human kite flier is mostly water; it is time to honor that water supremely in the kite.

  • The water kite might become one of the mascots of the H2 -Energy Age.   

  • Notice how water as cloud form sits up in the air floating about. Find a way to form and tow a cloud and have a water (cloud) kytoon of sorts.

  • Prize money? Specifying specific target achievements in water-kite achievements might attract some fund prizes that might spur invention.

  • Growing or slicing/carving ice rods?  Growing or drilling ice tubes? 

  • Brownian motion impacts on very small water kites

  • Sublimation rates at various wind temperatures will be part of the story of water-ice kites. What ion with what crystalline form will least sublimate in open space? How fast will various radiations degrade space water-kites?

  • Ice shells:  http://jerryrig.com/logd/images/2002/02/11/iceshells.jpg

  • Ice leaves

  • Ice waves: http://jerryrig.com/log/images/2002/02/11/rockwave.jpg

  • Digital water kite is on this page: http://fractales.free.fr/eau_air/water.htm

  • Not a kite of water, but the words form the subconscious foundation for the water kite program: See 2m Snowflake and Virtual Kite

  • See, no water kite yet:      http://www.kitelife.com/kitelines/welcome.htm

  • Nature has probably already demonstrated kites of water only. Consider the trillions of combinations of water crystals and the odds of getting a moored flake flying in the cold breeze, even trains of mini-flake kites either ground moored or even dynamically-soaring two and more water kites (flakes towed by a pushed bottom drogue flake, etc., during storms and blizzards.)

  • Consider polywater for kite line.

  • Google meter, April 26, 2005 over forced phrases: "kite made of ice" : 0   ;  "kite of ice": 0  ,

  • Results 1 - 10 of about 2,020 for "water kite", but not one of them related to kites made of just water (April 26, 2005}; most instances are kites used for traction over water.
     "ice kite": Results 1 - 10 of about 1,410 for "ice kite". , but not one of them on our program here, but most about kites used for ice activity with traction kites.    Today we added URL of this page to Google  search spider.  Check later in year for growth of specific phrases.... The Google kite is launched on the water kite.

  • Strong user of term "water kite" is inventor, sportsman, manufacturer and kite expert Dave Culp; the term is strong for kites used to tug watercraft and people. Such water kites are not kites made of water. SEE:    http://www.dcss.org/speedsl/why_kitetugs.html  His Kite Tugs™  are referred to as "water kites." But such tugging kites are made of materials other than water.  
            Also see: http://www.k12.hi.us/~wailupe/
               And under-water kite:  "water kite" http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~et3m-tkkw/history5.html  which again is not in this present kite of water program.
            And the rescue kite systems for rescues over water bodies:     "Water kite
    Find out about an inventor with the "flighty" idea to use kite technology for water rescue"--such is not the current kite of water water kite program.
              And the following is outside our current concern: "    52. Waikite. (Wai= water, kite= hot) From this spring emerges water of 98 degrees centigrade. It is cooled down to just under 40 degr. and then fed into a pool. The next pool is a bit cooler. Nice to wallow around in for hours."  of http://zenzien.zoefzoek.com/zenzien.php?lang=uk&page=reisverslag&sel_rubriek=09_NZ%204
             And the current program is beyond just finding kite shapes made on water forms ---kite art that does not fly. We are after flying actual kites made just of water.

  • Brother spirit: www.kites.tug.com/kites/Bb+p/13.txt

  • Kite ice====== "kice" ????

  • The entire industry of water kites (traction sorts, not made of water) might become interested in an iconic aura that could stem from flying just water as a kite. Maybe that industry could back some prizes for achievements in this kites-made-just-of-water program.

  • There is a neat digital cursor that mimics a kite of water droplets on http://members.lycos.co.uk/michael30/251_pokemon.html

  • water-ice kite     might be a better term so as to lower confusion with existing use of term "water kite."  But just "ice" narrows the challenge and results to a smaller arena than the possibilities.

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It appears now ( April 26, 2005) that the smallest kite in the world might soon be a Water Kite.   Then the challenge will be to get the largest Water Kite, Low-Cost Recreational Water Kite, etc.    Allow slight dye pollution of the water and get colors galore in the water kite; or just view through special filters through special scopes.