ant man,s new build

[ant man]

thanks quad kit it was eazy to build but the stars were a pain in the ass i had to keep starting over and over again to get them right after i did the first one the restwere eazy i just set the darn on my machine to stitch the patterns now for the rev the stitch patterns are a little harder then what i did here these are all stright stitches the rev has som tricky zig zag stitches so hopefull ill get it down but this kite flies real good

here is the machine that made it possible

[Baloo]

Looks a tidy job to me. Did it so quickly as well. If it flies as good as it looks it is a fine kite. Well done.

[ant man]

thanks baloo i got it done because i stayed on it for a long time i didnt stop until it was done and it does fly great i still need to tune it a little more for lighter winds

[johnnmitchell]

well its done my delta and it flies great i got it done at 2:35 this afternoon and after a few bridle tunes it flies great here are the pics the kite is a delta conyane with a 7 foot wingspan it took 12 hours between yesterday and today i was up late last night and worked on it all day today

Ant, attached is a photo of a variation of the Delta Conyne that I made a few year back. I lengthen the wings from a design that already had lengthen wings.

Enjoy,

Photo removed by johnnmitchell on 2007.02.13

[ant man]

nice kite i thought of doing a 2 color pattern on the box part but i liked the stars better i also broke the wood spreader and bent the wing leading edges so i replaced them with some avia sport rods i had 196 to be exact im going to use a 13 mm carbon tube for the cross spreader lucky me i didnt have it up high to where i would lose it but i flew great im still going to keep the wood on the box part for now to see how things do that one you have is reall cool nice work

[Jim Foster]

ant

Nice kite. Lynn and I love the patriotic theme.

Jim

[johnnmitchell]

nice kite i thought of doing a 2 color pattern on the box part but i liked the stars better i also broke the wood spreader and bent the wing leading edges so i replaced them with some avia sport rods i had 196 to be exact im going to use a 13 mm carbon tube for the cross spreader lucky me i didnt have it up high to where i would lose it but i flew great im still going to keep the wood on the box part for now to see how things do that one you have is reall cool nice work

Yours is really nice. The stars look great. For obvious reasons, I had to refrain from being too patriotic in my design in Europe.

At the time mine was built, carbon was rare and very expensive. Thus, all of the rods were fiberglass.

It flew solid as a rock like it was pinned to the sky. If you ever have problems of instability, change to thinner carbon rods or even to fiber glass rods.