Notes

Of Dandelions, Flying Umbrellas and Parasails - Connecting Nature, Fantasy and Present Technology
Not way back when an enterprising entrepreneurial inventor asked; Imagine if the Parasail was made out of more rigidity, what if we used an expandable dirigible type shape? Could we then increase the speed, maneuverability, strength, and safety?

Interestingly enough, it is possible to redesign the parasail in such a way that would enhance its performance in every regard. Follow with me when i take you through a few innovative concepts that could be deployed later on to make this possible.

First, we make the parasail out of ultra-light space age material, having an inner flexible frame surrounded by flexible NASA foam, within a carbon nano-tube or graphene wrap. Perhaps you could have only 1 attachment from the operator, pod, or power system. This might remove the need for all the external stringers, improving parasite drag and increasing safety.

An individual post from the parasail to the operator or operating system would provide another degree of performance as it could possibly be thin, but shaped such as a long fin or sword shape. And since it the parasail would be morph-able, it will be very maneuverable and wouldn't normally collapse if its wind was stolen or it hit turbulence.

Further, the sword-like post could possibly be semi-retractable swinging 90-degrees to allow high speed with the pod, operator, or operating system behind it or below it for slower speeds. The parasail itself could morph from the delta-wing much like a hang-glider right into a fat wing shape such as a parasail for maximum glide rates and lift.

These units could be built very cheaply and may be used for swarming sensors of any size from a UAV platform with long-range camera or personal carrier for rescue, military, or patrol. It might even be utilized in the number of the micro-mechanical. You understand nature has such things, think about a Dandelion floating in the wind in a parasail fashion.

Think about it as a flying umbrella, but instead of the umbrella we have been using doubles as a parasail concept or wing. These units could be made large or extremely small and these little units could be used like Smart Dust with micro-sensors, acting like nodes or motes flowing in the wind.

Such airborne system have plenty of advantages of weather, wind, studying volcanic eruptions, wildfires, Hurricanes, dust storms or movement along a path, road, canyon, tunnel, etc. And we're able to still utilize the parasail concept for recreation, as in personal flying craft, and sports recreation? How much weight will you desire to move?

This system may be made into an extremely nice towing chute; a ship - in a shipping channel crossing the ocean to save lots of fuel, towing a sight-seeing tourist by boat on the white sands and beautiful shore line, and even floating a camera in high-winds for border patrol surveillance.

Another thought is always to utilize the sword-like post tether to keep the parasail unit aloft by adjusting pitch, roll, and yaw, preventing stall due to relative wind. That wouldn't be too hard to figure out, and with a simplified program autopilot and stability control algorithm. Such ridmik keyboard is something we will be seeing in the foreseeable future, it's inevitable that designs of the types will come available as new space age materials do. Think on this.

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