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AiyanaLeigh

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  • Favorite Kite(s)
    With out a doubt Paul Shirey's!!
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    July 2002
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    south of Vancouver...in BC ..eh
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    Afghanistan

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  1. Woohooo!! Congratulations Scott!! Er... you do know HOW to fly a Ghost pyro....don't you????
  2. For my $0.02 worth...IF you can find one the Blitz by CdC is an awesome kite...it will trick and it will fly a pretty decent corner too, tracks well and is relatively inexpensive. I think one of the kite shops in Long Beach WA. might still have a couple of them!
  3. Just a thought on the E2...it's a full on trickster and as such has an inherant instability which will affect how the kite corners ... if it's precision cornering that you want you might want to look to more of precision oriented kite... There are several kites out there that will do both tricks and give you really sharp cornering to boot... just depends on what you want and how much you are willing to spend!
  4. Hi Rick... Thank you for the invaluable advice! As soon as I get my soldering iron, the brick will appear almost simultaneously! What an awesome idea! As for to "hot cut" or not...I'm with you there...why take the chance? I will also have a rotary cutter and self healing mat (I think... ) but that remains to be seen right now. Again...thanks so much! Oh...if it's easier just call me Aiyana (eye-yana)
  5. I can't go!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
  6. Well Whidbey Islands Festival has come and gone again for another year, it's always my favorite festival, come to think of it, it was my very first festival and competition! This was the first year I'd seen the "Whidbey Fog" and almost no wind at times. (Note: White kites as pretty as they are against a blue sky....really suck in the fog!!) It was so weird as the fog seemed to hang right over the feild and yet a few hundred yards up or down the road it was clear! Maybe God was punishing us kiteflyers??? LOL! I don't think so some how! This year inspite of the fog was a great year there as both Deb and Jannie came to the Festival!! Just as an aside, I was flying the ZeroStar UL that I got from Deb and that is the only reason she and Steve found the feild!! That kite REALLY shows up in the fog...come to think of it...that's the only time you can look at it without sunglasses!!! All in all the weekend was great...the Sun came out on the Sunday (finally!) and made for a great wrap up. At the end of the day on Sunday they always have this awesome raffle and most of the prizes are to die for...some...well some only a mother could love but the raffle is for all ages so this is to be expected I guess. Some of the major prizes this year included 3 CdC kites! One 2.3 STX, a 1.8 UL Stx and a 1.9!! There was also an E2 from Prism kites and a custom made Pizazz from Dick Barnes!! Kudo's to Dick and Linda Barnes for all the work they put into that festival! As for me? I made out like a bandit at the raffle! I won a roll of Texlon kite fabric, maybe not the greatest color but what the heck..it's piqued my interest in building kites!! I also put in for and won a new Rev Kite Bag from Revolution kites...but...they substituted it for a new Rev EXP. I guess I can't complain too loudly I have a 1.5 SLM that a friend crashed on me and tore the sail up pretty badly so I took the frame and bridle off of it and did an in home upgrade to the EXP! Now all I need is some wind to try it out! One other feature that Whidbey has that is a huge hit is the Swap Tent...people can bring their kites there and sell them and the place is just hopping most of the day and let me tell you there were some awesome kites for sale there!! I saw a matched pair of Mamba's a Std and a Vented for sale, there were Gemini's, Outer Space's (one in red, white and Black that looked awesome!! Jan that kite had your name all OVER it!!) There were some classics there too... and a whole mess of Revs!! I snaffled up a Rev II but for the most part tried to stay away from that darn tent! As good as peoples intentions are you always seem to come away from that tent with a net zero in your kite bag! In other words...you came to sell some kites cuz you have too many and end up buying as many as you've sold!! Anyway...I'm already making plans to return there again next year. It's a great festival flown on a nice grassy field and I hope to see more of you there in the years to come!!
  7. You might also want to make up a set of extended pigtails for your handles so you have more ability to change the amount of "brake" you have on your EXP. This will also help with inverted flight!
  8. I have looked at soldering irons, wood burners and hot cutters till I'm !! I think...(key word here is think) I'm going to settle on an Unger/Weller soldering pencil with interchangable tips it's not too expensive and heavy duty enough to hot cut and seal the edges on webbing too.... It will also do hot tacking with one additional attachment... here's the link.... http://www.goodwindskites.com/goodwindskit...tools.hotknifes At least this way I can buy it piecemeal and it won't kill me right off the bat! Now...as to what I'm going to build... hmmm... I do need one more RevII to complete my stack of 6. It is nice and flat so the sewing part shouldn't be too awfully hard (I hope). It's not like I don't have enough of them to take a pattern from! LOL! That brings me to my next question... I was looking at dacron tape (for leading edges and such). Which do I get? There is a 2" one that is already folded to 1" or do I need more like say 3"?? If so...does it come folded or do I want that? And lastly...that mesh stuff....what is it called and where do I get it?? By the way...thank you all for your inputs...
  9. One kite you might consider IF you can find one is the Blitz by Cavalier du Ciel...it's a wonderful little kite that has a tricksters soul! I think one of the kite shops in Long Beach WA might still have one or two of them!
  10. But some fabrics need to be hot cut....I guess what I want to know is what is a good hot cutter and what tips would I need for both straight cuts and appliques? I've looked at the Engel hot cutter but am not sure I need all that just yet....Some thoughts on it???
  11. Okay....I won a bolt of Texlon at the Whidbey Island Kite Festival and now I want to start building some kites.... So...my question is...what do you use to cut the fabric? I am looking at some sort of wood burning knife or such and was wondering what is generally used for cutting/sealing the material? Also...what do you use to cut on?? Glass?? Okay....so scratch the link I was looking at... it seems there are dozens of different hot cutters out there and as many different prices. Weller makes a nice cheap soldering pencil that apparently works well....as does Engel hot cutters ....but the price bites!
  12. Yikes!! I hurt just looking at Bob's picture!!
  13. I talked with Bob about his stacks when he came up to White Rock BC for the Wind, Wave and Sea festival and he said then that the big stack almost pulled his arms from the sockets!! Not to mention being very tiring to fly!!
  14. Hi Doug... Sorry it's taken so long to reply but I have a good excuse...I was on vacation!! High in the mountains of Colorado with nary a kite in sight! First, no I didn't add anything to the Rev II stack....YET. I do have one more kite to add and a fifth one coming. As for the lines Penny made up the originals for me and they are 2/3 the length of the leading edge.
  15. Okay...okay...I said it was a silly question!!
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