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[*] posted on 9-10-2009 at 07:22 AM


Lad,buggymangp was the man to ask re flying the wing at WW, though my 4.8 was pulling me back and forth quite well at the high side of the beach, that is until i got in the'shadow' of the Madrid Hotel, and dropped my wing on your lady friend's head! opps, sorry...:(



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[*] posted on 9-10-2009 at 09:24 AM


I couldn't access this thread's 2nd page (bobalooie57's last post) until I added this comment! :puzzled:

I can sort'a hit upwind with the 4.8 - adding brakes definitely gives it that "turbo" effect. But angling the loose sail effectively (and not sending it backwards, like a Rev stunt kite) is an issue.
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[*] posted on 9-10-2009 at 09:26 AM


seems to happen a lot on page changes, can't access until someone else posts after.



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[*] posted on 10-10-2009 at 07:19 PM


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I couldn't access this thread's 2nd page (bobalooie57's last post) until I added this comment! :puzzled:

I can sort'a hit upwind with the 4.8 - adding brakes definitely gives it that "turbo" effect. But angling the loose sail effectively (and not sending it backwards, like a Rev stunt kite) is an issue.


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[*] posted on 26-10-2009 at 09:41 AM


It's surprising how this well this guy is doing up against the treeline confined to such a small field. Then you'll see how long his lines are.

It gets pretty fun at the 4:00 mark :P


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[*] posted on 26-10-2009 at 11:36 AM


Yeah that's pretty interesting flying in such a tree bounded area.

Quite the pull generated by that wing, eh?!

How long would you guess those lines to be?



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[*] posted on 26-10-2009 at 11:45 AM


Would at least 20 meters sound right? I'm not too good at visual measures.

Notice too that he used only dual-lines!
He couldn't easily lay-down or de-turbo that nasawing if he wanted to.
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