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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.
A flowform I made from plans in "Soft Kites and Windsocks" by Jim Rowlands. 1.76M by 0.82M. Creates quite a pull, so much I've not got round to trying it with my camera yet. Photo by my son.
HRE Flowform FF01 satin black finish
Front: 19x8.5 ET: 30
Rear: 19x10 ET: 40
Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires
Front: 235/35R19
Rear: 265/30R19
D60 hung from my HQ Flowform 2.0 on the beach outside the Cove Tower.
Not a great result because the sun was setting, but Try LARGE On Black