Bbtech

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I will put it together and take it out and see how it flies. It is heavy with all the wood dowels so it will probably take a pretty good wind but there is also lots of sail area so a test flight will probably tell me a lot. I can tweak sail tension after observing it in the air.

I purchsed a bundle of kites at an estate auction recently. Most were old diamond kites, deltas etc. There was one great find. It is a cody and the label on the kite is Greens of Burley, U.K. The kite is about 4 foot high by 6 foot wide and constructed of rip stop nylon and 3/8 wood dowels. Judging from some of the newspapers that were wrapped around some of the kites I am guessing it is from the early 1990's. I managed to get it assembled and I will need to replace some of the tensioning strings. There are no instructions with the kite. I would like to know if anyone can give me an idea of how tight I shoud tension the sails. I guess what I am looking for is something like "as hard as I can pull", or "moderate pull". I am used to flying DC and Rokkaku SLK's so if you could relate it to one of those that might help. Theron