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woodpekr
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Ron,
That looks awesome! Great work!
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JC
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Lovely design, I hope the spars you used are stiff enough to do the job, are these glass fibre?
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Pumpkin
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:15 am Post subject: |
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Looks stonking.
Flight pics with tails now please 
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powder_pig
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Location: Portland, OR, AKA Region 9
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| woodpekr wrote: | Ron,
That looks awesome! Great work! |
Thanks
| JC wrote: |
I hope the spars you used are stiff enough to do the job, are these glass fibre? |
Fiberglass spars. 1/8" on the 23" model, 3/16" for the 60" kite.
| Pumpkin wrote: | Looks stonking.
Flight pics with tails now please |
As soon as the wind cooperates. 
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mototrev
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Nice shape!
Rainbow colours! or are they the flowers? LOL
Good use of a wheelie bin!
Great reflection!
Trev-(R)
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powder_pig
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| mototrev wrote: |
Great reflection!
Trev-(R) |
LOL...you have to be the most observant person in the forum to spot that.
You should have been an artist...or maybe you are?
You definitely look beyond the obvious. 
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Ron
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PeterB
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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Ron,
I have to say that is one great looking kite.
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kiteguy
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| powder_pig wrote: |
LOL...you have to be the most observant person in the forum to spot that.
You should have been an artist...or maybe you are?
You definitely look beyond the obvious. |
LOL I noticed the reflection, but was enthralled with the actual project. I really like it...a lot. Hope it flys at least half as good as it looks.
Heck, I even like the white framework!
Hope the reduced wing area from the holes are not a problem, but the holes add so much interest.....
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powder_pig
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you all for your kind comments.
I looked out the window and noticed a few leaves moving in the tree and grabbed everything and drove to the high school.
Zero wind. (Phoey!)
Back to the drawing board.
Maybe later. 
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planish
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:08 am Post subject: |
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Ooh, that looks nice so far. It'll probably have no problem self-relaunching, since it can roll around.
Any particular reason for the offset in the colours?
ie. The 60 degrees rotation between the inner and outer layers.
| kiteguy wrote: |
Hope the reduced wing area from the holes are not a problem, but the holes add so much interest..... |
It looks to me like there is a fair amount of sail area for the number of spars, compared to other flakes, waldof boxes, etc.
 Or is that just my imagination?
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