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    A tetrahedral kite is a multicelled rigid box kite composed of tetrahedrally shaped cells to create a kind of tetrahedral truss. The cells are usually...
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    included Eddy's tailless diamond, the tetrahedral kite, the Rogallo wing, the sled kite, the parafoil, and power kites. Kites were used for scientific purposes...
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    and the rig was 208 lb (94.5 kg). Alexander Graham Bell developed a tetrahedral kite, constructed of sticks arranged in a honeycomb of triangular sections...
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    with a wall-like "wing" made up of 3,393 tetrahedral cells. It was a powered version of the Cygnet tetrahedral kite designed by Dr Alexander Graham Bell in...
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    Tetrahedron (redirect from Tetrahedral)
    analogues Pentachoron – 4-dimensional analogue Synergetics (Fuller) Tetrahedral kite Tetrahedral number Tetrahedron packing Triangular dipyramid – constructed...
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    Bow kite Kite Stunt kite Kite surfing Kite landboarding Kite buggying LEI kite Arc kite Parafoil Power kite Windsports Kite types Kite mooring Kite applications...
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    achieve the same stability effect. Tetrahedral kite Bowed kites at the Virtual Kite Zoo. Kite Index Link Directory, For All Kite Related Websites.* v t e...
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    Bell's tetrahedral kites as antenna lifters. Bell had been experimenting with kites in hopes of developing a flying machine. A large, 230 cell kite was used...
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    Company, a theatre company in San Diego, California AEA Cygnet, a tetrahedral kite designed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and flown by First Lieutenant...
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    experimented with tetrahedral box kites and wings constructed of multiple compound tetrahedral kites covered in maroon silk. The tetrahedral wings were named...
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    kite Bowed kite, e.g. Rokkaku Cellular or box kite Chapi-chapi Delta kite Foil, parafoil or bow kite Malay kite see also wau bulan Tetrahedral kite Expanded...
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    Target Kite Retrieved 16 March 2011. U.S. Navy Target Kite Retrieved 16 March 2011. Target Kite Retrieved 16 March 2011. Variations of Tetrahedral Kites Retrieved...
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    tetrahedral symmetry, it has geometric varied proportions. By Dorman Luke dual construction, a unique geometric proportion can be defined. The kite faces...
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    The Oionus I was a tetrahedral triplane built for Alexander Graham Bell. It was the culmination of Bell's experiments with kites built at Baddeck, Nova...
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    secretary. Selfridge took his first flight on December 6, 1907, on Bell's tetrahedral kite, the Cygnet, made of 3,393 winged cells. It took him 168 feet (51 m)...
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    Amongst his recreations is kite flying as a founder of the Kite Club of Scotland. He has written about the Tetrahedral kite. Association for Constraint...
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  • aeronautical kite system topics. Topics included below specially affect the kite's wing, kite's essential tether, kite's mooring, uses of kites, kite applications...
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    with man-lifting tetrahedral kites and wings constructed of multiple compound tetrahedral kites covered in maroon silk. The tetrahedral wings were named...
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    Alexander Graham Bell from 1898 to 1908 developed space frames based on tetrahedral geometry. Bell's interest was primarily in using them to make rigid frames...
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    Alexander Graham Bell to begin his own experiments with a series of tetrahedral kite designs. However, Hargrave's work, like that of many other pioneers...
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  • to design and construct the last of his aviation designs, a mix of tetrahedral kite and aircraft, prior to the formation of the Canadian Aerodrome Company...
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    symmetrically staggered; they are called twisted kites. With a higher symmetry, its 2n faces are kites (sometimes also called trapezoids, or deltoids)...
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    many important aeronautical events such as Alexander Graham Bell's tetrahedral kite experiments and the Wright Flyer Army Trials at Fort Myer, Virginia...
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    Napoleons". Sherlockian.net. Retrieved 14 February 2022. "BELL TESTS HIS TETRAHEDRAL KITE Aeroplane Soars Over Washington EXPERIMENT WAS NOT REGARDED SUCCESSFUL...
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  • Kinney Boulevard in Venice, Los Angeles in 2019. Forte developed a tetrahedral kite tattoo for artist Kat Von D, and tattooed actor Chris Hemsworth in...
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    has eleven arrangements of nets. The uniform tetrahemihexahedron is a tetrahedral symmetry faceting of the regular octahedron, sharing edge and vertex...
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    (such as a cup, tray, or tower). The face (or corner, in cases such as tetrahedral dice, or edge, for odd-numbered long dice) of the die that is uppermost...
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  • Scotia, who worked with Alexander Graham Bell on the hydrofoil and the tetrahedral kites which he developed there after the telephone made him famous. Her...
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    Alexander Graham Bell, who had made a number of earlier experiments with tetrahedral kites, and John McCurdy and his friend Frederick Walker Baldwin, two recent...
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  • crystal form in pyrite, has pyritohedral symmetry, while the tetartoid has tetrahedral symmetry. The rhombic dodecahedron can be seen as a limiting case of...
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