self-built revolution kite

some short flight sequences of my self bult rev kite. took me half an hour to built, made it from ordinary household stuff and a carbon rod from an old delta kite..

* leading edge = 180 cm long, 6 mm diameter hollow carbon rod
* sail = yellow trash bag
* chord-wise spars: some very lightweight plastic tubes
* area = 1.07 sqm

sadly, the kite broke after the first gust (plastic tubes of course not strong enough) so i have just these short crappy sequences.

revolution kites are the most simple to build depower kites ! thats what fascinates me about them.




some pictures here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/andre.krause/RevolutionKiteSelf...









now dreaming of a large scale, high aspect ratio rev kite ( 10 sqm ?) with foldable leading edge -- for light wind adventures..

Reminds me a bit more of a Fijet than a Rev (wrt to aspect ratio)

ATB,
Sam

Nice! Good DIY job

thanks alot just wanted to show how easy it is to build a kite (that even has depower!!)
hope this inspires some others to try to build a rev kite. its really easy.

btw. , i also tried to build an arc kite out of litter foil - but i made some mistakes, so it flies *#@%$#!ty*.


tried to build the arc kite out of trash can foil. in the leading edge i did put one of those long skinny balloons used for modelling funny creatures.
the rest of the leading edge was left empty - i was hoping it would inflate trough small air inlets but that was a fail. if i only would have put those balloons along the whole leading edge, it would have flown much better. (in fact it would then have bee sort of an ordinary C-Kite with arc alike spars at the tips..)