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Kites
Greetings all !
I'm sure this must seem absurdly simple to most of you. but I remember once having a book which had designs for three paper kites. each made from one a4 sheet. I have always had a love of kites and the beautiful designs are breathtaking, would it be worthwhile starting a thread on paper kites ? Bring out the inner artist and sculptor. Liz
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Ooooh,yes please. I've always been fascinated by kites, and although they don't get flown very often now, I do have a few. The bestist one is a Chinese built life size eagle that I bought off eBay a few years back now. Last time I flew it from my back garden quite a few cars on the A5 stopped to watch. We do get the odd small Osprey here but not the bigger eagles. It is quite realistic, but regrettably not aerobatic as designed. I do hope to rectify this though.
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Yup - kites are of interest to me as well. I have around 30, from twin line aerobatic foils, through stacks to single line kites.
Funnily enough it is the single line kites I enjoy the most though.
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These folks might be good ones to ask. Mmm, ya know what, just remembered that I don't remember when I last renewed my membership, oops!
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I would be interested in a thread on kites. My dozen or so kites are all single line and covered with mostly tissue paper. The designs are Bermuda, Guatemala, Chinese, Vietnam and my current project, tetrahedral made with soda straws and tissue. I do use traditional bamboo for the spines acquired from bamboo rakes. It will be interesting to see where this thread goes. John
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One of the projects in my first upper division graphics class was to design and build a kite. Over the semester we had different related projects such as put together a proposal book on it. Our final for the class was we all met down by the Huntington Beach Pier and attempted to fly them.
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Kites have always been fun. Go fly a kite was more of a invitation for having a good time.
For a while a few years ago I got into the habit of collecting kites. I would see a new kite to me that had a intricate shape and would have to buy it to see how it flew. Most of them were very nice in flight. All of them, though, have been given away over the years so their ultimate fate is unknown. A few kites were built from plans found in books or online.
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I've been working on a F-15 look-a-like kite. Bought a F-18 kite last year that is Dacron covering with carbon fiber spars/supports.
Been designing a similar kite using paper and carbon fiber, long ways to go, but should have a working model by next spring. Long, dark winters here leave lots of time for designing... Mike |
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aircraft lookalike kites are always good. I have a six foot Fokker triplane and a 12 foot Cody "man-lifter", great for aerial photography.
Here at the Morecambe kite festival I have seen self supporting "sparless" kites in the shape of everything from whales to elephants. The most amazing one I've seen though was made by an elderly Japanese gentleman who flew the fingernail size kite from a human hair using the thermals from the heat of his hand. Liz
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