CaptRichard

What have you missed is a great question. Check out some of the videos on utube and elsewhere and you will be shocked. The peter powell kites are probably in need of new straping tape to hold them together. It was used at all the connections so you could replace and retape the joint. The hawaiian team kite should be ready to go out of the package. You probably have some old Kevlar line which is frowned upon since its tough of the other kites. Spectra and a few other new lines are the norm now. The Flexifoils suffer from old age and loosing thier coating. IF the material is not sealed they wont inflate. I have several that wont fly any longer and a few new copies that I get out for old time sake. The general difference is in the past you could make it go left and right and if you were good do a loop or figure 8. New kites like the rev can fly upside down and backward so to speak since four lines are used and you basically fly each side of the kite seperate. one side up and the other down makes it spin. I was big in the kites in the mid 80's and left for a few years. When I saw what was new in the late 90's I started building a new collection and I have not slowed down since. I remember Dad asking how many kites I needed when we were stopping at the 5th kite shop on the outer banks. I said only the ones I did not have... I wish he was still around to complain about the collection.