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A couple of vids from The Cleveland Kite Festival 2013


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I was at The Cleveland Kite Festival today and a bunch of Rev people had an unplanned group fly in between scheduled events. Nothing spectacular, just some fun quad flying :)

https://vimeo.com/74023376

Here is Lee Sedgwick flying his YFO;

https://vimeo.com/74127037

The Windjammers Performance kite team:

https://vimeo.com/74159460

Another Rev group fly. Not all of the people in the previous vid, but I got their faces in this vid John.

https://vimeo.com/74156873

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It was a great day yesterday, I got a bunch of flying in, met Lee Sedgwick as well as a handful of people I haven't seen/flown with in MANY years, and met a bunch of really cool people.

The Windjammer Stunt Team from the Detroit, Mi. area was there and they were fun to watch. The wind was right at the edge of comfort for me with the 1.5B with race rods and the three wrap tucked in as well. I flew it for a while early as well as the guy who sold me the kite. He verified as I assumed in my unskilled flying with the B, it's the user and not the equipment, the B is set up just fine. I then busted out the II and as always, I love flying the II. A handful of experienced Rev flyers also flew the II and each of them chuckled when they were flying it.... it's a fun kite for sure.

I was chatting with a dual line flier that never flew a quad. I had my Cross Quattro 1.5 out at the time and his initial apprehension also turned to smiles on his face after a few minutes with it as his comfort with the quad increased. With his skill on the dually I wasn't concerned with his flying the foil in higher winds. This truly is a wonderful quad foil at a very decent price. I picked it up this past spring and yesterday was the third time I've flown it. First time in higher winds; 12+. It does well 6+ but of course a bit slow and tame. At 12+, it was a blast to fly. I'm glad I picked this up to replace the Quadrifoil 3 I sold. NO way I would've pulled that out in yesterdays wind.

I had the opportunity to fly one of Vicki's B full vent..... WOW, that is a smoooooooth flier. Thanks Vicki! She returned your hello JB.

I added a vid of Lee Sedgwick in the first post!

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Here is Lee Sedgwick flying his YFO;

I tried flying one of those once. It looked like fun, and I thought "I can fly quad. How different can it be?" Boy was I mistaken. (Not the fun part. It still looks like fun.)

The one I flew didn't have the little colored arrows, so you could never tell what was forward or reverse (or sideways, or slantways, etc.) Five minutes later I handed it back, lest I break it. :(

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  • 4 weeks later...

that group with the red/ black revs is Vicki's team Air Mainia, with Bill Watson, Shawn , and Chris Murphy all from Columbus OH. They have been together about 2 years. I flew with them at last year's fest. Really like their colors.

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