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Mr. Dick with an English Archtop, from David
Copperfield, by Charles Dickens |
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Chi-rho Rokkaku: My first full-sized kite, decorated
with soft fabric
paints. |
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The 2m Snowflake: my first big kite. Much improved
since I replaced the
hexagonal frame by a circular one. (The spinsock is pureley for effect
- it flies perfectly well without - and the pig is just hitching a
ride.
The shark was someone else's.) |
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Mickey Mouse Eddy: Built for some friends I owed a
favour to. They
needed a replacement sail for a plastic kite, and I couldn't have just
done a plain one, could I now? |
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Sea Bea Eddy: Another built for some friends, in this
case a lad whose
initials are C.B. |
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Rowlands Flowform: With a moderate breeze, this pulls
like a locomotive.
I normally use 300lb line. |
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Pierson Roller: An elegant light wind kite I built for
those days when
nothing else will fly. |
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Waldof Box: I'd been wanting to make another big
cellular kite ever
since the Snowflake. Here it is at last! |
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No, I didn't design or build this one, but isn't she a
beaut? |
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Traditional Box: This is a toyshop kite, in fact the
oldest kite in
my collection, but still nice to fly when there's a reasonable wind.
Recently
I cut a set of different crosspars to turn it into a rhomboid kite, for
slightly lighter winds. |
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Prism Triad: A very light kite that flies in hardly any
wind. Slacken
the line and it tumbles and spins, pull, and it flies off again! |
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Box delta: This belongs to and was built by Graham
Dresch. He sent
me this pic and the plans
to publish for
him. |
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Gene Rock's Chupp Roto-Flyer ... |
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... and his Sea Breeze, another rotory kite. |
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In the same vein, Daniel Bertolino's Autogire. |
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The Joystick kite: an unusual 3-liner from Alivola
- discontinued I believe. This pic used to be on their website (used
with
permission). |
