SkyHighLer

Here's a heavy, but simple version, using .157 PC tubes, and Rev end caps. The black 'bushing' between the tube and the end cap is a short piece of automotive vacuum tubing, same stuff Rev slices up to make washers to keep the shock cord from pulling through the sail corners, note my mylar washers... :-)) The other end of the tube I use a nylon bushing with the lip cut off, hard to find item... a piece of shrink tubing will do just as well to bush to the Avia APA connector. 135# Spectra, I can tighten it up by adding knots to the keepers at the head attachment points. P1020167 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020172 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020175 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020174 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020172 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020170 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020168 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020177 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020178 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020179 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020181 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020182 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020188 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020190 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020191 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020192 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020197 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020203 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020205 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020207 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020208 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020213 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020217 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020219 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020220 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020223 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1020224 by johnescooter50, on Flickr

Magic Quad Sticks... Steve LaPorte (maker of the Spirit quad line kite incorporating 'the sticks') was flying Rev's with the tension system in sport kite competitions a couple of decades ago... nothing new. I bought the kit way back then, and use a lightened up version on many of my Rev's. Here's the original instructions, and some pics of an UL Rev with 'the sticks' I recently passed on to Roger of the San Diego Kite Club. [/ P1010944 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1010954 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1010953 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1010951 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1010949 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1010947 by johnescooter50, on Flickr P1010945 by johnescooter50, on Flickr