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I've seen this stack before.  But for the life of me, I can't remember where or who made it.  Argh!!!!!!

It kinda looks like a Triangulation, if it flies like it looks in the picture. The Triangulation is all attached to itself, so it looks like a stack, but not separated by lines. I've seen different versions of the Triangulation, some big with many wings, some with only 3 wings, and another with progressively larger wings. I flew a large (7 wings, I think) Triangulation. and it pulled like a mule. A quick google search reveals that it's a Joel Schultz design.

WOW, I had not heard of Joel Scholz and upon closer inspection of the kite.. You are spot on. I took it out of my SLK bag today and gave it a good look.  It had been sitting there since the original pics when I obtained these SLK "rescues". Here's a few other pics I took today..I suspended the kite under slight tension to get better photos... There are spots on several sails where this kite obviously wasn't taken care of. Another of the Stage Props in my rescue pile to try and resurrect..Eventually it will see the sky on a regular basis.. I think every kite should see the sky. Don't you??

I even found the tag in an obvious spot so I feel badly that I misled on the original picture comments..I have a few SLK's that I don't know the origin of (mostly from that show) but I guess this one isn't one of them..anymore.. The date of the show is circa 2004 so that would seem to be a good start date for this kite's life..

It''s called the "Skyscraper"

 

WOW... I learned something here, too. Very similar to the kite stack that I flew a few years ago. A kite friend that I met at the beach threw it out on the line and handed it to me. I was very impressed with the pull, and how high of an angle that it flew. Now, this kite friend... many years ago she was president (?leader?) of the KTAI, and she had access to all kinds of kites that most of us don't see.

I think that this kite that you have is an amazing part of kite history, don't let it go, you'll probably never find another.