Stunt Kites
BballBran492
thing, but I think I could make my own. You can e-mail me at:
BballB...@aol.com
DDKites
"BballBran492" <bballb...@aol.com.no.spam> wrote in message
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Hello friend,
You can find plenty of plans & stunt kite building ideas from the various
links listed on our Kite Plans page, in the "Stunt Kite Plans" page. The are
also additional ideas available for stunt kites in the "Accessory Plans"
page. The main URL is:
http://members.tripod.com/~verlin/plans.html
There are several great books available on stunt kites which ought to be
available in most libraries. If not, most any book store can order them for
you. Our favorite ones are; "Making & Flying Stunt Kites & One Liners" by
Wolfgang Schimmelpfennig, "Stunt Kites To Make & Fly" by Servaas van der
Horst & Nop Velthuizen & their other book called "Stunt Kites II, New
Designs, Buggies & Boats".
I hope this helps some. If you need some specific help on a detail feel free
to contact us & we will try our best to help.
Best of luck with your stunt kite building ... it's a blast to do :-)
Verlin & Carol Martin
--
Kite's have an Attitude of Fortitude,
They rise against the wind not with it!
~Delirious Delusion Custom Kites~
*Kite's With An Attitude*
http://verlin.tripod.com/index.html
Pierre Gregoire
A good source for kite books, I just bought a bunch is at
http://www.kitelife.com/kitelines/store/enter.html you can buy them
online or there is a phone number on the site. When I called, I talked
with Valerie Govig. They got all the books, from 15 countries.
Hope that helps,
Pierre Gregoire
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tom Baumgardner
beginner, that you might think about a factory kite from one of the better
manufactures for your first stunt kite. I like you thought that I could
build a kite. Luckily for me I bought a kite and learned a lot about that
kite and others before I ever attempted to build one for myself. Building a
good kite is luck for a beginner or a lot of work for the best in the field.
How do you want the kite to fly? Do you want it to track well, do you want
it to trick and if so how? What kind of wind range do you want the kite to
fly in? These are only a start of the kinds of questions that you have to
ask yourself if you want to build a good kite. A lot of plans are good at
telling you the shape of the sail, but frame length, spreader attachment
position, stand of position and length, and bridle configuration are often
left for you to experiment with. When you are learning to fly is it your
flying skill or is it a bridle problem that is causing you to have so much
trouble with the kite. Nothing can be more frustrating to a new flyer than
to have a kite that flies poorly and not having a clue as to how to improve
it. That doesn't mean that you won't or can't have problems with a purchased
kite, but at least the purchased kite has been designed by someone familiar
with kite flying, who has used his experience to produce a kite that should
fly. I have stopped flying many times to help people with less expensive
kites that they bought and brought to the field only to find that it
wouldn't fly. Maybe the bridle was not adjusted properly, maybe the wind
range of the kite was wrong and perhaps the kite was just poorly designed
and was just plain hard to fly. I fly dual lines and build indoor kites for
myself and know how it can take months of labor to play with spreader
length, spreader positions, and with bridles to come up with just the
characteristics desired. I tried to design an active bridle for on my
Illusion and I kept going back to the original bridle because the kite never
flew as good as the original design. Later I added the factory version of an
active bridle to my kite, and it did make a big improvement. I had read Andy
Wardley's description of how to make an active bridle, but I never quite
got the right geometry. Don't get me wrong, kite building is fun, but if you
are truly new to stunt kites, there are a lot easier ways to get started.
Hey this helps.
Hope your winds are good.
Tom aka Kite Boy