AY Honors/Kites/Answer Key/es

Cometas
Asociación General Actividades recreacionales	Destreza: 1 Año de introducción: 1986

Requisitos

1

¿Cuándo fueron hechas las cometas por primera vez? ¿Cuándo fueron voladas por primera vez? Nombrar al menos tres formas en que las cometas han contribuido en la investigación científica y decir cómo cada uno ha afectado al mundo en que vivimos. Contar la historia del norteamericano Benjamín Franklin y su cometa.

2

Mencionar algunas de las formas que las cometas podrían ser utilizadas en la actualidad.

Kites are used today for the following:

1. Predicting weather (carrying aloft meteorological instruments).
2. Carrying loads of water ?
3. Spaceflight (during the recovery of space vehicles)
4. Pulling ships at sea
5. Recreation (kite surfing and skateboarding)

3

Explicar brevemente cómo volar cometas.

4

Definir los siguientes términos:

4a

Columna

4b

Varilla longitudinal

4c

Conducto de ventilación

4d

Amarre (hilo)

4e

Cubierta

4f

Marco/armazón

4g

Cola

4h

Quilla

4i

Cuerda para volar

4j

Brida

4k

Carrete

4l

5

¿Cuál es una causa común del fracaso de una cometa?

• Lack of wind.
• Too strong a wind.
• Trees or other obstacles causing turbulence.
• Essential parts of the kite or line breaking (e.g., too powerful a wind can break spars or the kite string).

6

¿Qué se debe hacer cuando una cometa hace círculos durante el vuelo?

The usual causes of a kite looping are:

1. Not enough di-hedral.
2. Poorly bridled.
3. Poorly balanced.
4. Too much wind.

If the kite starts to misbehave when already aloft the problem is most likely to be too much wind. Release tension on the line and try to pull the kite diagonally out of the wind-window and closer to you. The closer you have it, the more control of it you will have too. Most importantly you must keep the kite under your control.

7

¿Por qué algunas cometas necesitan una cola?

A kite's tail is used to add stability to the kite and keep it facing into the wind. If there is enough di-hedral this will then prevent the kite from looping. The length of a tail should be from six to nine times the length of the kite body. Some put them on the kite so that when in the air it will wave along the wind - for decoration.

8

Conocer al menos tres normas de seguridad para volar cometas.

9

Hacer lo siguiente:

9a

Enrollar correctamente la cuerda de una vara

9b

Atar una línea/cuerda rota con el nudo del pescado

Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Fisherman's bend/es

10

Hacer volar con éxito dos de los siguientes cometas:

Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Fisherman's bend

10a

Cometa trineo flexible

10b

Cometa plana

10c

Cometa estilo diamante con dos cañas

10d

Cometa ala delta

10e

Cometa malaya

10f

Cometa celular (cuadrada)

• This one's a bit involved - http://www.howtomakeandflykites.com/kites-to-make/the-box-kite.html

10g

Cometa tetraédrica

A tetrahedral kite is a multi-celled rigid box kite composed of tetrahedrally shaped cells. The cells are usually arranged in such a way that the entire kite is also a regular tetrahedron. The kite can be described as a compound dihedral kite as well.

This kite was created by Alexander Graham Bell. It came about from his experiments with Hargrave's Box Kites and his attempts to build a kite that was big enough to carry both a man and a motor. Bell wrote about his discovery of this concept in the National Geographic June 1903 issue; the article was titled "Tetrahedral Principle in Kite Structure".

This style kite, while not an easy kite to make compared to the simple cross kite, is a very stable kite and is easy to fly. It flies well in moderate to heavy winds if it is properly set up.

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  Tetahedron

• http://www.instructables.com/id/Tetrahedral-Kite/
• http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/kites/tetra/straw_plan/