Big Wind Kite Factory, Moloka'i, Hawai'i presents: 20 Kids * 20 Kites * 20 Minutes Uncle Jonathan's easiest classroom kites ever. For over 15 years the Big Wind Kite Factory has been giving kite making classes for the children on the island of Moloka'i in Hawai'i. These are the complete time tested instructions to get 20 kids making their own kites and flying them in 20 minutes. Material list: ...

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Aeroplane Plans Home Page About Me Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Sceptre Mk 2 Plans Aeroplane Plans Guestbook and Contact Page My Links Page Monster kites at Blackpool Building an Aeroplane (with pictures Fighter Plane Kite All I ask in return for using these plans is that you take the time to sign my guest book. If there is any part of the construction you do not understand, or you need help in any way, ...

Workshop Brakes Nappies Vents How to make it Stunt kite tips for strong wind: When you fly stunt kites in strong winds you must modify your stunt kite in some form in order to reduce the pull and slow down the forward motion of the kite. This is very essential in competition flying. To fly compulsory figure exactly, you need a slow kite. For ballet your kite should fly at the same speed, no ...

The Incredible Nasa Wing NOTE: This is NOT the usual Nasawing you find on other sites: this one is altered to give it better performance. The nose section as well as the bridling have been altered: it has more speed and pull and a bigger window compared to the original wing. This is truly an amazing kite: a single skin soft kite that is easy to make and that can be flown as two or quad line...if ...

The Sanjo Rokkaku This is the Rok as I build it. There are some details that differ from the normal way to build it. - The connector used is a drilled through standard 8 mm T as used in stunt kites: the the spar can be in one piece which is stronger than a split one. - I use a 7 leg bridle to prevent deformation in gusts or high winds. This allows you to build the kite lighter and allows a ...

Here it is... the kite for every one who thinks building your own is difficult. As you can see it isn't; as long as you scale it right other dimentions are possible, and it's an ideal kite to stack. Because it has no bridle you can easily stack them on one line. The only thing to consider if you do that is to use a braided line instead of a cheap twisted one cause the latter will untwist under ...

Dropping stuff Ferries , messengers, transporters: all describe the same gizmo that's used to carry and drop loads up the line. I've used several designs and although the winged versions are the most spectacular they do have a lot of disadvantages. They are relatively heavy and need big wings to lift a moderate load, and if the angle of the line is to steep they won't work. Another problem I ...

The Chute backpack The image tells it all. It's wise to make one out of paper first to see if the chute will fit in. Packing the chute Back to the index ...

Charlie Charlton's Kite Site - Help and advice on building and decoration of your kites, picture gallery, plans, tips and techniques, full easy to follow instructions ...

The plan is also available in the original visio format If you are able to convert the plan to another, useful format, then please let me know... andrew@tug.com There are many pictures of the (original) Pilot at http://www.kiter-onleine.de/lynnpilot/pilot.html ...

Last up date:1999/07/10 EDO DAKO (EDO KITE) Contents 1.Outline of Frame Construction. 2.List of Material. 3.Bamboo. 4.Washi(Japanese paper). 5.Trimming of Washi. 6.Building Kite. 7.Hummer. 8.Kumade(Binding Tool for Bridles). 9.Bridles. 10.Adjusting Bridles. 11.How to Fly Edo Kite. 12.Appendix : Painting Design of Edo Kite Top Page Kite Plan Mail Box ...

Make your own duck Duck building instructions I have promised myself (and others) to make a building instruction for the duck for a long time. I have postponed it because I know that while the duck is easy to make, it will be hard to explain. But let me try anyway. The duck consists of 3 major parts: 2 sides and a belly. Attached to these are 1 beak (in two parts), 2 wings (two parts each) and ...

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So you want to make a kite So you want to make a kite but you don't know where to start ! Charlie Charlton 1998 I get a considerable amount of mail from people who want to make a kite or kites, but they have no idea where to start, many people see the amazing kites on the web and remember those childhood days when they had kites made for them by a more knowledgeable adult, uncle, father or ...

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Last up date:1998/04/25 HATA LIST OF KITES MY PROFILE LIST OF KITE LINKS Top Page ...

Last up date:1998/08/01 THE GREAT WORKS OF NAGOYA KORYU This page was generated with permission of Mr.Masaaki Satoh, the author of the book Nagoya Koryu dako . There are three types of Nagoya Koryu. Those are a horsefly(Abu) type, a cicada(Semi) type and a bee(Hachi) type in their configuration. The Nagoya Koryu shows an excellent flight feature in a strong wind such as 5m/s to 15m/s and have a ...

Copyright 2000 Andrew Selzer No Sew Buka Kite By Andrew Selzer History I've been fortunate enough the last two years to attend the AKA national convention. In '98 at Ocean Shores, Washington, I was introduced to the Northwest Fighter Kite Association and Bruce Lambert among other fine members. In '99 at Muncie, Bruce gave a workshop on building a 5sided Buka. The Japanese Buka is a rectangular ...

Updated Dragonfly Fighter Plan - Aug 24, 1999 Provided by Tom Humphrey http://www.olympus.net/personal/katzen/dragonfly/ Kite specifications: 20 wingspan, 17.75 spine length. Line of wingtips bisects the spine 7 from the nose of the kite. Trailing edge should be cut out 5/8 on a smooth curve from wingtip to tail of kite. Bridle attachments are on the bow 1 on either side of the spine, and 9 down ...

LO-Do LO-w aspect ratio e-Do More examples of LO-DO's and The Domino Gif format plan of Lo-Do Instuctions on how to make the LO-DO I have been asked by Roberto Guidori to mention himself, he believes that he is the originator of this style of kite and having looked at some of his kites I can see why he might think this, however these kites were independently developed by myself and I do not ...

Buka design specifications: no drawings here...but...that's part of the fun...luckily 90 degree angles need few drawings... a rectangle... 15 wide 10 - 11 high...(depending on whose ratios you believe) leading edge spar....050 carbon spine...050 carbon corner to corner diagonals (2)...050 carbon three point bridle top bridle points 1.25 either side of center attached to leading edge bow. bottom ...

Last up date:2002/01/24 FLAPPING CROW KITE This kite flies as a real crow in the sky. Many real crows will attack the crow kite. If you fly this kite near the forest where many crows live, more than two handreds of crows will attack the kite within only five minutes when you would fly the kite in the sky. You can see the scene in the above center picture. Can you find out the flapping crow kite ...

Last up date:2000/01/03 KINETIC KITE EList of Materials 1) Sail : Plastic sheet or Ripstop or equivalent 2) Spar : 2mm depth ~ 10mm width ~ necessary length (Bamboo or equivalent) 3) Vertical Spar : 2mm depth ~ 10mm width ~necessary length(Bamboo or equivalent) 4) Connecting bolt and nut : 3mm @diameter ~ 15mm length Each sail of wings are bonded with plastic adhesive or soldering iron or ...

Last up date:1999/12/24 POKEMON KITE Click on the image for large photo. EList of Materilas 1) Sail : Plastic sheet (yellow color) 2) Vertical Spar : 2.0 mm depth ~ 5.0 mm width 670mm long 3) Piano wire : 1.0mm diameter x 1000mm long two pieces 4) Bamboo frame : 1.8 mm x 400 mm long two pieces Sail are bonded with frames by plastic adhessive tape . Details of the Plan Top Page Kite Plan Mail Box ...

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RockA Fighter Kite Oregon Kitemakers Retreat Rockaway Beach Or. 1998 Brian Johnsen Parts List 1 pre-cut mylar sail 1 26 x 0.060 carbon fiber bow 1 19.1 bamboo spine 1 0.25 in heat shrink tubing for bridle anchor point on spine 1 bead for bridle yaw control 1 1 foot piece of line for lashing the spine to the bow 2 1/16 heat shrink tubing for bridle anchor points on bow 2 ripstop nylon wingtip ...

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Hata making- with Mr. Kuwata After our initial amazement at all his kites and the work he has done in such a short time, we began with our lesson. Mr. Kuwata carefully went through the steps in making a hata kite, which we video taped. Hatas are made in set sizes based on an old Chinese coin. We began by making a size 16 hata. Mr. Kuwata carefully selected three pieces of paper that had been cut ...

Last up date:1999/02/21 NAGASAKI HATA Building Steps of HATA Step-01 Prepare a bamboo stick which is 10mm wide, 8mm depth and 700mm long. Details of area A is shown in step 8. Details of area B is shown in step 9. Step-02 Length of horizontal bone made by bamboo is 820mm. This frame is bowed by string as shown in step 11 using the string as shown in step 04. At the center of the frame, its ...

Kite Arch The first flight of the kite arch is planned for 30 August at the RMB Kite Day. It is intended to be an easy and fun project, the first of its kind for Doldrums Kite Club. Please contact Leon or Otto with any comments. The kite arch will be made up of around 20 or more diamond shaped kites, using a single flying line as the cross spar for each kite. This line will then be pegged so ...

Raaseri - A full range of high performance stunt kites Kite construction plan Copyright The copyright of the Raaseri plan (except the photographs) is owned by Simo Salanne. You are granted a permission: To make a Raaseri for your private, non commercial purpose. To have a link to the Raaseri plan on your web page. Please send me an email about it. You are not allowed: To use the plan or the ...

S-QUAD 4 LINE KITE Back To Plans By Dave Salmon To make the S-QUAD you need Ripstop lmtr 3mm Bungee elastic 2 X 1.2Smtr 8mm carbon fibre tube 2 X lmtr 6mm carbon fibre tube 2 X &nm Knocks (home made are best) 1 X 8mm Ferrule at least 10cm long with the centre blocked 2 X 6mm Knocks 2 X 6mm Endcaps Bride line Alloy rings (optional) Small lengths of 6mm and 8mm tube lmtr 50cm wide dacron tape This ...

Karens Butterfly Plan After acquiring a Dragonfly made by Go-Fly-A-Kite recently Karen decided she wanted to make something in a similar style, whilst browsing the 'Penguin book of Kites' by David Pelham she came across the outline plan on the right and decided she wanted to use it. The first job was to find a butterfly that would fit the pattern, and after scouring various bits of clip art and ...

Chute.bas Chute.bas is a simple basic program that allows you to calculate the dimentions of a bear's parachute. It asks for the weight wou want to drop, the descending rate, the no. of gores (panels) and the distance between calculated points. If you got the printer switched on it then prints out the coordinates of a half panel. Shroud lines should be about 1.5 times the panel height. Don't ...

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Kuba's Kite Page - Stelar Delta Contents Building the Stelar Delta Back to Main Menu Building the Stelar Delta The original Stelar Delta was built from off-the-shelf materials because I wasn't expecting it to fly, I was just trying to build a delta kite. I was lucky though because I only had to change one thing after the first flight attempt to get the kite into the air. The original was built ...

Last up date:2000/5/21 TAHARA FIGHTING KITE This page is generated with a permission of the information office of Tahara Town. Tahara Fighting Kite Festival on the web site of the Japan Kite Association. Building Steps of TAHARA Fighting kite List of materilas @ Frame:-------- Sooty bamboo Hummer:-------Pleioblastus simonii bamboo 2cm diameter Paper:---------Japanese Washi: 9 sheets of 41.5cm x ...

A Modern Centipede By Bernhard Malle Picture of the completed kite Fig. 1: Overview of the Centipede Building a centipede has long been on my wish list of new projects. One of the favourite kites for this purpose was a soft-centipede, like the one that is built and sold by Peter Lynn. The reason that I did not dare to build one had always been the complexity of this kite. After the Fan\ o ...

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Last up date:2001/03/13 SHOOTING STAR TRAIN KITES This kite is made by black plastic sheet or ripstop nylon sheet. Sooting star train kites are made by using triple snap which are used in fishing. This kite is very easy to make and has a wide range of wind speed to fly, 2-6m/sec. Each kite moves like as a shooting star as shown in the above photo. EList of Materilas 1) Sail : Plastic sheet which ...

Miniature Kite KITEMAKING THE ART AND THE SCIENCE The Cocktail Napkin Kite by Charlie Sotich Kiting, The Journal of the American Kitefliers Association, May 1990 Introduction Small kites, especially ones that fly well and are attractive have a special charm. If you ever taught a kite class for children and flew a small kite: they'd like to have and fly your little kite too. Adults also like them ...

The Shropshire Rok' Back to Plans (a fun fighter kite). Designed by Tony Slater Shropshire Kite Group. January 1997 Drawing by Jim White SPINE -5 x 2 BAMBOO (SHINY SIDE DOWN) TOP SPAR - o2 FIBRE GLASS BOTTOM SPAR - ~I .5 FIBRE GLASS Drawn by Jim White BRIDLE - TOP LEG 420 BOTTOM LEG 445 on AutoCAD LT v.2 This kite is good for beginners, as it will roll around its edges and take off again after a ...

3D - Quadline kite (Work in progress) This plan is for a 3D effect quadline kite, total width of this kite is 1 Metre as i'm building a small version first to test out how well this kite will work, to be followed by a 2metre wide version. I havent cut cloth on this design yet, so it is as yet untested. I'm going to use the above colour scheme, and probably use 6mm carbon fibre tube for both the ...

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Keel-less Flowform I flew the Keel-less flow-form for a while in a nice wind at Petworth Park on Saturday. It's taken a bit of fiddling to get the bridle right, but it seems to be a happy kite now. The kite is basically the flow-form with the middle 3 keels removed, to provide a flat surface suitable for uninterupted appliquet. If you'd like to make one, this is what you do: First, buy Kites and ...

Doldrums is a kite club in Gauteng, South Africa, with members from Pretoria and all over the greater Johannesburg. The club started in all earnest at the beginning of 1998 and is growing with leaps and bounds, attracting attention from flyers all over the province.

Doldrums is a kite club in Gauteng, South Africa, with members from Pretoria and all over the greater Johannesburg. The club started in all earnest at the beginning of 1998 and is growing with leaps and bounds, attracting attention from flyers all over the province.

Driemaster by Jan Pieter Kuil Reproduced from the Nederlands Vlieger Gezelschap Magazine The Dutch loosely translate as follows: Because the flags are asymmetrical you may find that the left hand bridle will require shortening. A six leg bridle, requires a drogue and will fly in gentle to moderate winds. ...

Para Fauna - Watch for Falling Bears! I wrote a postcript file to print a parachute gore (one section of a parachute, many of which are sewn together to form a 'chute). You can get it here. You will need to edit the lines that say /gores 8 def /diameter 50 def to replace the numbers with those that you want. When you print the file, it calculates the shape and prints it out, along with a ...