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Bob and Charmayne's kites 2001 |
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Bob and Charmayne's kites 2001 |
| Here are some of the kites and pieces of line laundry we made in 2001. |
| Our fifth pair of Wadsworth Rotators. These are really fascinating kite to watch and build. We fly 3 pair and have given two sets away for raffles/auctions. |
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| A stack of three Eddy kites. This was designed by James Means in 1895. It is arranged on a single spine with very interesting rigging. We found the Means Kite in Paul Garber's book "Kites and Kite Flying", published by the Boy Scouts of America in 1931. |
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This is a 1 meter parasled. It is much less stable than our normal 2 meter parasleds so in higher winds it will fly with a tail. It is surprising how much line laundry it can lift. Small but mighty. | The kite we taught at Ft. Worden 2001 was a 1 meter parasled. We made several of these in preparation for the class. |
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The Baseballer and Sky Master. Two of our "Hi-Flier" replicas. They are actually Top Flites from the Grunden Martin Manufacturing Company. These kites are about 5 feet tall and fly so well in light winds. We made several of the replica kite series in 2001. |
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 Sky Rider, a Cloud Buster |
 the Clown, a Cloud Buster |
 Strat-O-Flier, a Hi-Flier |
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The Berlin Flyer An old German airplane kite design. Airplane kites or Flugzeug was the Fano Classic kite this year.
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This year at Ft. Worden, besides teaching the 1 meter ParaSled class we made a Martin Lester bird kite. This little swallow flies well but only with a sizeable tail. We made a second one to fly them as a pair. |
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| New line junk. Our pink and green line has six pieces on it now. This line was started in 2000. Not flying with them is a double wheel with internal spikes, next photo over. |
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Seen on a German web page. It is Flattermann. Our Flying Man is made from a Tyvek paint cover-up suit and booties, a Tyvek hood and rubber gloves. |
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| We made another, larger, meteor when the first flew well last year. |
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