A year later :eureka:

Quote:

Peter Lynn Himself Newsletter December 2014 "I've settled on SSSL24 as being the most promising re-boot point. Sure, it's complicated and wrinkly, but it's stable across the range- to 60km/hr at least- doesn't show any inclination to dive off to either side in gusts, and recovers well from lulls."

http://www.peterlynnhimself.com/newsletter/Dec_Nl_14.php

Interesting thing about that last newsletter. I've seen the shots from Mongolia and the higher AR Single Skins they used and then read the bit about Peter Lynn Kiteboarding experimenting with single skis but opting to put efforts into open cell depowers. Too bad. I would have liked to see a killer single skin come out of the PLK stable.

These are single(fly) line TRACTION kites?... Not just single skin traction...Single line traction? Am I understanding his newsleter(rambling as it is)?.

If he is indeed talking a traction kite that is single line.....How do you control or steer with a single line?

This key question is totally overlooked in newsletter to the same degree that it is so obvious it jumps out as a foremost question.:puzzled:

Maybe I have misunderstood, or am I missing something..

Look at this single line(not bridal-but fly line) below..

Peter lynn himself is working on sssl which is single skin single line. When he was talking about the traction kites that michael decker (i'm sure I misspelled that) is working on, those are 4 line. 2 completely separate things brought up in the same issue other than they are both single skin. The picture is of a single line and not a traction kite. At least that's what I gathered from it.

I'd sure like to see what Michel has all worked out in the SS traction kite arena. It's somewhat sad to know there is one designed but we can't get one. I imagine they will come out eventually, because I'm thinking this very revised Peak is going to take the market by storm. It's about to get serious. This might be the latest big development in the evolution of the traction kite. And we might just look back a few years from now and realize it was a revolution.

A lot of what he is talking about is dealing with a stable single line kite as a pilot kite for lifting large show kites. Don't be confused about some of the characteristics in his description as far as a traction kite because many of the stability characteristics are those needed for a reliable stable pilot / SSSL

As far as I can tell the kites we saw used in Mongolia might be more in the direction of the traction kites.

My understanding of it was that the kites used in Mongolia are traction kites designed by Michael Dekker and Peter Lynn has been told not to say too much about them. completely separate to the SSSL kites that Peter is developing which, if I understand correctly, are for pilot kites, not traction sports. I wonder if Villegrop (the company Michael Dekker designs for (I think)) is sitting back watching how Peak sales go and maybe NS3 sales before they launch their single skin traction kites.

In an email conversation a while ago with Steffen Born, he was also thinking about a design more suited for buggying than the NS2 and NS3 - whether anything comes of that we'll have to wait and see.

And I have to wonder is Ozone has anything up it's sleeve after ditching most of it's fixed bridle foil kites.

Could be some interesting kites coming out in the future...

Waiting to see what Ozone comes out with. It will be interesting to see how the work their experience with single ski paragliders scaled to kite use. For my purposes single skins are ideal. After last season of flying Peaks and now flying the new refined Peak 2, I would say in Bob's words it's already serious. These kites can and will do anything an traditional twin skin can do.

Anyone have any more flying time with the kites that have been bought so far?