JMPVW73 Posted January 2, 2007 Report Posted January 2, 2007 I went out to the elemetry school twice today. The good news is I have found my stomping ground but dont have a kite to fly at the moment. I was out flying in the afternoon in 5-10MPH wind that started shifting faster than I could move the kite to stay in it and ran into standing water a few times from all the rain. My brother came over and I was showing him the E2 and he stepped on one of the lower spreaders. It has a .5" split in it now so I'll go ahead and get a spare but I dont think it weakend the rod any. The wind got real good around 9 so I went back out for night flying. Less water and it was a steady 10MPH w/ 15MPH gusts. The kite looked metalic when it reflected the availible lighting. I managed to do a perfect Axel, but cant say I ment to or could do it again. After an hour the wind started picking up a lot and I wish I had brought the 85'x150# lines with me. I think it was as much as 25-30MPH at times. I crashed and got the kite back up, launched it and immediately let go of the lines because noticed one line was behind the wing tip. It was too late, I snapped the lower leading edge at the metal sleave. Quote
JMPVW73 Posted January 3, 2007 Author Report Posted January 3, 2007 I didnt break it! The metal sleave came unglued and slid up on the upper edge. I have super glued it back in place. I'm glad it didnt fall off in the field somewhere. Quote
Penny Lingenfelter Posted January 3, 2007 Report Posted January 3, 2007 Sounds like a good day! Hey, I can do axels like that.. the ones where I wasn't trying. BB Penny Quote
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