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Crafted after an idea of "KAP Testroom"
Clamcleat CL-217 Mk2 and a normal cleat on a strip of Aluminum. A pair of standard Dee-shackles + carabiner is used to connect the strip to the anchor.
Wooden "ZVV" winder with 120m of 200daN strength braided nylon line in the foreground.
On the left: My winder / reel with 250m of 150daN strength braided dacron and the bag with my FF03A-8 and 5m fuzzy tail laying in the grass.
This kite was shot with a iPhone 4S it is my biggest and heaviest parafoil kite. When I first flew it on a very strong windy day I had notice it would lean to the right and it was very difficult to bring back in but, of course I got it back down and put it to the side to fly another day. The second time I put it up I attach a fuzzy tail using a Y bridle and it flew beautifully, that I did a KAP session which was a little scary but, successful in the end.
Two women reading, and enjoying warm weater at the beach. Camera hung from kite string, San Francisco California
I purchased 2 cheap flow form/parafoil type kites on ebay for $10.50 each the measure about 3ft by 4.5 or so. It is flying much lower than my 12ft delta.
19mph wind today, 48 degrees fahrenheit, it feels like the end of kite season. :(
I thought I would be able to brave out the winter chill, but after 10 minutes on the reel my hands were dead, and it's still fall! In the background you can see the capital, I may crop a close up of it but with 5mp these images can't handle too much cropping.
My GoPro HDHero is connected to some kevlar line on a FlowForm 8 kite with a fuzzy tail.
Taken from a camera suspended from a kite.
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Harald Prinzler flowform. One of my longest serving kites, I keep trying to keep a limited set on my bike but one look at the wind today and I knew it was a 'Molar' day.
A more interesting composition (to me anyway) Taken with an Olympus 760SW in a modified Brooks Leffler rig hung from a Flowform 16.
Leica X1,Sutton Flowform 30. Flight by Clive Hollins. See
www.burwellmuseum-org-uk-.ik.com/p_windmill.ikml for more on the mill.
Trying to fly a flowform 8 kite along the river tonight in very, very gusty dirty winds. Wind seems to swirl quite a lot down this slight hill to the river from the higher road and tall buildings nearby.
My flowform was ~100 feet out on my line bouncing up and down, every time there was a big gust it was visibly being pushed down instead of careening up into the the sky like normal. After losing the kite temporarily to the river, the wind picked up even more and was making an impact on the top of the water, you can see just how powerful this down draft is.
This video was taken around 6:15pm, I loved the way the sun was streaking through the menacing clouds, it's too bad I couldn't get the camera up in the air until most of the show was over.