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Eliminator - rectangular 4 line power foil from Andy Smith.
Highly recommended as your first foil. Free plans available in 1.6m,
2.0m, 2.5m, 3.0m, 4.0m and 6.0m sizes.
General help.
Build pictures Sewing
ventrals |
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Gamma - bi-elliptical foil, again from Andy Smith.
Shaped skin panels and closed tip cells make for a more powerful foil, but
with a lot more work involved in building one. Free plans available
in most sizes. The pictures show a 5.7m version. This is a
very powerful kite! Gamma pics You will need
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Trident hybrid. Single skin sparred kite from Paul
Watson in Tasmania. This is the 2.7m version and also has a lot of
power. It takes a little while to set up on the beach, as the
leading edge curved spar has to be installed, but it is well worth the
effort; loads of power. Bridling |
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Nasawing, known as NPW5. A very simple single skin
kite, quick to build and lots of power. Not great for upwind work,
but great fun on a buggy! The biggest I have seen is 24.7m!
This was flown by Chris Croft at Berrow Power Week in 1999. Free
plans and building help available for any size. This one is 4.7m. |
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Pizazz stunt kite from Dick Barnes of Pizazz Kiteworks. I bought the plans and built this
kite from them, using the tutorials Dick provided. Full size with
8ft span. Applique Dick had made
his building techniques available to everyone in a series of articles on his
site but (as of Sept 2008) they are no longer available. Dick
suggested that I save the tutorials to my computer, which I did. If
you need them, drop me a line. |
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Hummerkite. Own design using a calculator found on the
net to help with the dimensions. A great little beginners kite,
quick and easy to build and fun for kids. |
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Tim kite, built from free plans on the net. This one
built by Phil Tolley. |
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Speedwings built from the book 'StuntKites II'. My
first serious attempt at kite building, and still good fun to play with. |
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Rokkaku kites, 8ft and 4ft versions. These were built
using the free plans from Gary Engvall, Master kite builder. The 8
footer has potential as a KAP lifting kite.
Here are the plans for the 8 footer.
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200 small bowed kites we made for a festival! Its cute
to start with, but soon the novelty wears off....free plans available. |
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Bridle board basics. and how
to attach flying lines. |
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Flat fell seam ~ how I do them. |
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Harness info. |
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Backrest from a chopping board. |
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Genki. Single line lifting kite. Built from free
plans from Mike Dallmer. Potential use as a KAP lifting kite.
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Big bird. Single line kite based on one we saw at
Portsmouth Kite festival 2001. 2 metre wing span. If you would
like a set of drawings for one of these, please let me know.
Stephan also brought one to the STACK competition at Stokes Bay, UK in
Oct 2001. |
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3 metre delta built from plans freely available from Dan
Leigh. We are hoping to use these kites as lifting kites for our
experiments in Kite Aerial Photography.
Go here for all the details.
at Dan Leigh's site. |
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Built from plans on the site of Harald Prinzler. This
one is approx. 50 square feet. (Thats 2.5 metres along the profile x
2.0m across the front). I put about 6 lbs of weight under it and it
lifted with no problems! I just need to get the KAP rig built now!!
Harald was hosted on AOL and they switched the sites off on 6 Nov 2008.
I will try and find where it has gone and set up the link again. |
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See above for comments....... When you decide what size you want to build, go to the site
above where there are excel spreadsheets that will do all the calculations for you. Then
you have to plot these figures, draw, cut and sew, then go fly!
There is good building help on Haralds site (see box above) |
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Built from a bin liner (black plastic bag) and bamboo
barbeque skewers, it flies very well and attracts other birds when flown
near trees. Plans and building help in detail are available
from
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~et3m-tkkw/crowkite.html
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