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=== Powered short-tethered hang-gliders === Here the unpowered kite is tethered to a pilot who arranges to have a harness to which is attached a thrusting prime moving engine or motor; the total system is a [[Powered hang glider|powered aircraft]] while the kite itself remains unpowered (very differently is when an engine is mounted on a wing). The control system includes the control system of the similar system where the pilot is not thrust by a harnessed prime moving engine or motor; however, in controlling flight, adjustments for center of mass are respected. Further, while the pilot's thrust is on, the pilot positions so that the kite's kite line is angled so tugging of the wing is accomplished in the familiar kiting manner where the kite line begins upwind and angles upward downwind (relative wind is to be the wind in attention here).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pulma1/Liens/Mosquito/AndyBuchanPowerHangGlider.pdf|title=Powered Hang Gliders: Climbing & Airspeed}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wind-drifter.com/technical/BarPositionPower.php|title=Effect of FLPHG Engine Thrust on Bar Position|website=www.wind-drifter.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bhpa.co.uk/pdf/FLPA_Training_Syllabus.pdf |title=FOOT LAUNCHED POWERED AIRCRAFT (FLPA) TRAINING SYLLABUS - POWERED HANG GLIDING |access-date=2008-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010155601/http://www.bhpa.co.uk/pdf/FLPA_Training_Syllabus.pdf |archive-date=2008-10-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.airshow-1.netfirms.com/mosquito%20video%20page.htm |title=Flying the Mosquito |access-date=2008-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080114094341/http://www.airshow-1.netfirms.com/mosquito%20video%20page.htm |archive-date=2008-01-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mosquitoamerica.com/FourYears.pdf|title=Four Years With a Powered Harness Richard Cobb - 2005}}</ref>
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