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Originally posted by pokitetrash HERE That needs to be retired with full honors to hang on a wall somehere as a totem for the gods of RipStop and Wind. Someone have a man cave big enough for that? I'd jump on it if I had room to hang it...

pokitetrash got me wondering what some of us have hanging in our living rooms.;-)

Mine.

left =? Center = Sea Devil Right =?
Bottom = Delta Hawk.
Any gusses IDing left and right would be cool.

cool!

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Originally posted by WIllardTheGrey left =? Center = Sea Devil Right =? Bottom = Delta Hawk. Any gusses IDing left and right would be cool.

Kite on the left is a PKC/Jeff Howard Wren.... indoor kite framed in microcarbon with fixed battens mid-sail to maintain sail shape during flight.

Center one is a Lam Hoac Sea Devil

Kite on right is a Wolfgang Siebert Sweety, an indoor/outdoor light wind kite framed in 4mm/5mm carbon rods.

Kite on bottom is an HQ Delta Hawk. A high wind kite with a top end of 38mph. It is framed in 6mm pultruded carbon rods like its sibling the HQ BatKite. Like the Speedwing, it flies without an upper spreader.

Someone with better eyes will have to id the beer bottles.

ATB,
Sam

Thank you!:singing: I feel bad that the only one I have flown is the DH (its my brain dead stupid wind kite, that 38mph max is really the min:evil: ).

Each one of the beer bottles is a different micro-brew.

I have own the Wren... and despite being listed as an indoor kite, the first time I flew it was outdoors in silly gusty wind. It qualified as kite abuse. If I had crashed it rather than landing it at the edge of the window, there is no doubt it would have been in pieces.

Recently acquired a Sweety, but haven't had a chance to fly it yet.... few indoor venues and winds have not cooperated in months to the degree I would feel safe flying it.

A Sea Devil would be wasted on me.... ESO (Equiptment Superior to Operator).

I have always wanted to pick up a Delta Hawk, as I consider it a hooligan kite for (as you say) stupid wind kite. I have flown the BatKite in winds where it is hard to talk and you can feel the wind endangering hair follicles. It can be very, very fast... power delivery is on/off with a narrow band in between. It is surprisingly quiet..... disconcertingly so. 6 foot wingspan and wide aspect ratio, so it is fairly squat. King of funny to see it ripping across the sky with long tails coming off the spine and wing tips. Sometimes, I like launching with the tails rolled up, so they unfurl during the ascent. Have a couple of mad scientist experiments lined up for the BatKite.


HQ BatKite

ATB,
Sam

:puzzled: I'm disappointed, no-one else has kites hanging? :puzzled:

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Originally posted by WIllardTheGrey :puzzled: I'm disappointed, no-one else has kites hanging? :puzzled:

Had to move my office to the basement(needed more room and more quiet), but before the move I had Elmo, a single line delta and a box kite, hanging off the ceiling along with a dozen other old kites that my sons and I flew some 30 years ago. Now they sit in the closet waiting to be reborn. The problem is that my grandkids like to fly foils and the bigger the better. So a 15m NPW hanging off the ceiling is to much for any office, let along the living room to hang as ceiling art. :puzzled: Right?

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Originally posted by WillardTheGrey :puzzled: I'm disappointed, no-one else has kites hanging? :puzzled:

When I was down visiting my sister a while back, I had brought about 4-5 kites to get some air time in... ever the optimist. It was February. Temps were in the single digits and teens. Winds were around 30g45+. I was sick as a dog, and running a temp of 103 at one point. I was also down there to attend a conference. After the second day, I assembled all the kites and had them around the bed, on the bureau (on one wing tip)... just to cheer myself up. I made me inexplicabily happy to see all of them assembled all gallery-like.

When I was receiving kites at work, it was fairly standard practice that they decorated the office for a day or two. Easier to do when I got an office to myself. When I was sharing an office, my office mate left early one day, and the UPS man arrived right after. Soon, the back of the office looked like this:



(Left to Right) ITW Goliath (9ft), Prism Ozone (75 inches), EAK Mirage XL (10 ft, 6 inches)

At home, I have no illusions... the little black hellion would find some reason to hunt the kites. My girlfriend brought home a plant because her office was moving and placed it on top of a shelf to forestall any temptation. Duncan climbed onto of the humidifier on the counter and from a standstill launched himself 6.5-7.0 feet to the top of the shelves. It still freaks me because there was so little leeway for getting a running start or overshooting on either side of the jump. It was partially feline levitation.

He has on one or two occasions launched himself at the ceiling fan pulls with me catching him in mid air when he missed his target. Hanging kites in the house would add a level of anxiety that I am not sure they have sufficient medications for. His eyes turned into big saucers the only time I have had to dry a Flexifoil Bullet in the house.

The dog is absolutely terrified of kites.... but then sneezes and electric toothbrushes also scare the bejeebers out of her. Dogs 3 times her size and suddenly she become a superhero (with no self preservation skills )

ATB,
Sam

the 2 diamond stunters were my first stunt kites

most of the ones hanging on my home office walls are Korean, Japanese, Chinese small figurative, fighters, birds, dragons etc.