flying
...from North Dakota are going.
Chris Dodson
North Dakota: No Mountains, No Trees . . . Just One Big Flying Field...
...think i will be there for about a week and would like to meet some kite enthusiasts and need some tips on flying fields and stores ). don't know the exact time when i will be there yet, but will...
Hello
Its a dual line kite, so you just need a couple of 200lb flying lines anything from 25 to 35 metre long, attach those using a LARKS HEAD knot (Google it), a good stiff breeze and your away.
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...ome interest. So firstly all of you Kiters have a Great Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
If your not flying your kite, have a look see at http://www.egroups.co.uk/group/AoxomoxoA ur all most We...
...while I agree that it takes a lot of wind to fly this kite, 20 mph seems a little on the high side. I was flying mine on the Mall in Washington, DC this past weekend at 12mph. Still, that's a bit...
Hey, I can beat that! 2 weeks ago, I was flying the Jam Session Millennium on 66 meter lines (being 2 33m lines knotted together). Here also, taking my height and arms in account, let's assume it...
...etails of the kite. The curves are adding 'flow resistance' at the front of the kite. It's flying more stable then. We had long and interresting discussions about these 'simple loo...
Been flying kites for 3 billion hours (*wink... *grin) and I only use two; the granny and the larkshead. Talk to granny for her knot. Here's the larkshead: http://kitefisherperson.homestead.com/...
...g, and this will be a completely unhelpful posting, but I don't see why people have so many problems flying kites, jumping etc. Within a couple of hours of flying my first kite (2.8m Predator Mk ...
...tack a Trick Tail, Precision and Omega together. Now that's a hand full. 3 different sized, style of flying all stacked together. Picture 3 kites with 6 45foot tails all in the sky. It pulls like...
...y in the air for long.
I feel that the bridle is the problem.
I would like to modify the bridles.
I am flying the kite with two lines only.
Can anyone help me on how to modify the bridles
Thank U...
...ave up for a particular kite and buy it when I have sufficient money.
Regards and happy, less radical flying. James 'Watch the kite, not where you're going!' (RB 29/8/98)...
Hi Mikey! I have 2 setups. 1 is for handles with 'tails' coming out the back opposite where the flying lines attach, and the other is for handles with no 'tails'.
There are som...
I think I was flying on 70 foot lines, I think there was an older guy about to come up and make some suggestions, but luckily, the friends I was there with all started cheering (it was my first 360 (7...
...#039;Brill on the hill, where the wind blows chill.' It's probably a pretty good place for kite flying.
There's also 'Stow on the Wold, where the wind blows cold.'
Hop...
Don't laugh... When I was a kid, my Dad was flying his 12 ft delta on the beach, and it looked as though the kite was plastered in the sky. Then it decided it felt like dive bombing an elderly co...
... oversteer' .
However every so often we can get caught up into the hype of it all, whether we are flying Benson, Prism, PBSK, Mullin or Humble DOT, we can get too focussed on one make or desig...
...how consistently I COULD get it to stick there. I was easily able to perform the half axel, stop, back to flying position, but that wasn't enough, that became constantly recreatable, so I played ...
...nses of a large frozen lake, and, and, and... As I think I've mentioned many times before... I Enjoy flying in the cold.
Mikey luvs ya!!...
...end this with a C-Quad and some other high-perfomance foils. Check it out if this is a workable method by flying your kite around, then pulling the brake lines hard. If the kite goes down slowly, oook...
...olution) works a *lot* better than a flat frame with a sail that billows out behind it. Particularly when flying in reverse in low wind, a kite like a Rev will tend to collapse, while a Solution or De...
... by letting out line. By the sounds of things its pretty close to stable but just needs tuning a bit. Try flying on less windy days? Try a bigger drogue or more tail. Next option is to move the tow po...
...ng tip pointing the nose up then take a step or two backwards and equally pull both lines and you're flying up. This is the way I do it and the kite pops up making a turn straight to flying posit...
...she was certainly a Novice. It was her first year, and from what I understand she had only recently begun flying.
Do you suppose that she may have 'learned' over that year? Or should she...
... fliers should be sure to caution new fliers of this hazard. If too many accidents happen on our favorite flying fields the city could post a restriction and then we would all lose.
Learning and S...
Hey Penny, So are you going to stack up a bunch of revs for your traction I was flying my jo jo 3500 down there at LB on saturday and it was stretching my 200lb lines like crazy so I never got to ac...
...ns in the tourist rack. Depending on the time of the year you may find that you need kite lites to do any flying at any shore area. Can't help you with the parks, knowing Naples You probably have...
...ad as much fun as if they were out there. So much laughing going on! Some where over 24 flyers. All great flying!! The sad part was there was no pin for the mystery flyers. ;( A ball point pin would h...
...the AKA auction in Florida last week.
This kite is not commercially available at this time.
Happy Flying!
Tom McAlister...
...me circles,
it's that big delta with the flowing tapered tails coming off the back, looks like a flying bed sheet or something, check out http://www.gwtw-kites.com/March10Fly.html , it'...
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