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...owards the front.
Forward is more stable for speed. Rear for tricks and backwards.
Use a bigger kite. Use a chest harness. Even, better, use a 2-line kite. (this comment is not tongue in cheek...
...k during a backflip or lazy susan (especially the lazy susan), the lines will come up taut and flip the kite back into normal flight. The 3D *can* be banged around the sky but responds better to a lig...
Bryan, it would probably surprise you to find out just how many kites entered in the AKA kite maker comps were made on Pfaff machines (old ones at that).... This makes this thread Very much kite relat...
Actually I think James put his finger on it. It is a Slot Machine in the observed motion of the kite. The only way I can actually do a slot machine is slow, and horizontally. It looks exactly like you...
Nope. No-one in the UK flies kites. No-one builds them, no-one sells them.
If you want to meet kite fliers, you need to go abroad. France, Germany, Holland and all of Scandinavia are good. There a...
A ROK, is short for Rokkaku, which means 'Six sided kite'. Rokkakus are traditional used at a lot of festivals around the world to fight with. Individuals or teams fly these kites in battles...
Hi Kite Fans,
Did anyone manage to download the plans from Andrew Beaties commercial plans site before he had a break in, and had his stuff nicked? If you did can some kind Kite builder please for...
...arker with 8 lines, instead of 12, for indoor or zero-wind outdoor flying. I will be able to *pump* the kite, whereas with 'No. 2', I can't... (so I need 1MPH or so to fly the pencil......
Hi there,
well that would work with alot of kites, but especially the newer breed of kites thrives on brakeline pulling! I would certainly not recommend this with a C-Quad and some other high-pe...
Southern Alberta, Canada, around the town of Pincher Creek, where they have The Children Of The Wind Kite Festival in July, is *famous* for it's wind. I don't have a link, but someone was te...
XIII annual Kite festival. This is my 3rd year in a row, wouldn't miss it for anything!
Germans and English Fliers, normally one American, (me) and bunch of Spanish Fliers meet once a year, n...
... mind that (the way I see your drawing) if you pull the bottom right panel towards you (the flier), the kite will _not_ spin clockwise, it will spin _counter_-clockwise. Yep, that's right! Try it...
...u brought your own.
Next time I go, and I am not waiting till next November, I am taking 2 buggies, kite board and kites and the normal bag of dual and single line. I cant think of a better place ...
...ring and scrap fabric tail), 1 spool of 5200+ feet of 10 pound monofiliment fishing line, all line out, kite is out of sight.
I was a sophomore in highschool. assuming about 30 degree angle and ig...
...erted surfboard and I managed about 20ft standing up before I wiped out.I was also very pleasedthat the kite didnt get a dunking tho Im sure that will come....hopefully not b4 I get enuff cash for a W...
Sven,
I learned the fruit rollup on the Obsession '99. This kite is amazingly easy to do it on, it over-backflips into a wrapped state very easily. I now have a Gemini since two months and ha...
You could do that- put a stopper on your leader line so that the bar doesn't go all the way to the kite. Instead of running a long leash line up the leader, I have an eyebolt on the bar with a st...
I would like to know if there is any kite shop in Baltimore, Maryland.
Thanks,
what kind of kite : 2 or 4 lines ? regards
Hi i like to buy the Kite if its still there
Cheers Ollie
I'm looking for kite review, specially for the Feather and the Geenie from HQ.
They look kinda like Griffins but the sail pattern is different, what kite is it?
hi kiters , this is rick from windflight kites , im running the demo field this year and im looking for your imput on what you would like to see on the field . the best place to start is with you, rig...
...gether. 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 a dang truck and can be a hand full if t...
You don't tell what kite it is, but FlexiFoils is about 2/3 of the wingspan
MGJ - DK
Does anyone know about flying in the Silvaplana area of Switzerland?
And where is the nearest kite shop?
thanks,
Anyone bothering this year. I meant blackheath, but that could go for the whole UK kite scene.
Hi
If u where to buy one kite for buggying. A so called allrounder wat would it be? Something you can use most weekends
Go for it, I made one with a carbon fibre rod for a LE (with other modifications) and the kite rocks...let us know how you go.
...verybody.
My name's Garett. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada.
I just got into flying stunt kite (2 string) last fall....
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