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[*] posted on 13-1-2011 at 11:55 AM
kite mutant ! (high AR c-quad depower race kite)


who knows what kind of kite that is? is it a proto? looks to me like single skin with massively lon carbon spar as leading edge:

http://www.simongillkite.com/en/gallery.php

(for large pic klick link: http://www.simongillkite.com/en/images_voyages/grand/TroisRi... )





and - anyone knows more about those elf kites:

http://www.kite-site.ru/zsw.html

aspect ratio of 7.4 :eek: :eek:

and look at this beautiful thin profile !! seems to have depower, too !
is this a flysurfer speed3 killer ?

and just for comparing, a beautiful picture of the highes AR arc:

the famous F-ARC with AR flat = 7.0



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[*] posted on 13-1-2011 at 12:40 PM


The top thin red and white one is a very high aspect one produced by the paraski-flex guys. When my buddy Mike was still living in Canada and doing a lot of the WISSA competitions we talked about them when they first came out. Mike was really impressed with the performance they got out of them. I was only at one event a few years back in Quebec in the winter when I had a chance to try one but there was zero wind that entire weekend. I don't know if they actually have that as a regular retail option to buy or just custom made for their own team riders.
If you see the set up on the paraski-flex at first you'd think at first it looks like it would be basic performance like a NPW - but wrong - very user friendly, I've seen events where they get huge numbers of people up and going with very little instruction and experience overall - they have some nice pop and float and for racing that high aspect ribbon works good.

The middle one is a Russian foil mentioned on another recent thread, Denise wrote:

"Since last year in light conditions, Simon flies the russian ELF ZERO-SW 16m kite.
7.4 aspect raio, 63 cells, a BEAST !"

http://www.kite-site.ru/zsw.html



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[*] posted on 13-1-2011 at 04:40 PM


The top kite is a Paraskiflex batwing which was only available to their race team. Here's a pic with the Paraskiflex logo on the kite. http://www.kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2339985&... The kite was supposed to be very fast.



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[*] posted on 14-1-2011 at 07:06 AM


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Originally posted by markite
7.4 aspect raio, 63 cells, a BEAST !"


Holy crapoly that's a lot of cells :wow: Thing must be about as rigid as a foil can be in the sky.



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