For my next trick, I need a... (lot of ripstop)....

[K'Tesh]

For my next trick, I'll double a French military kite and add a delta.  Dimensions are looking to be about 9' at the base, and 3' across from the edge of one triangle section to the edge of the other.

I like the color scheme I came up with for my sled.  So, I'm going to keep it.

Here's the concept:

 

 

[makatakam]

Really good looking design. You'll learn a lot about bridling and balance points from this build.

[K'Tesh]

Thanks!  I worked up a few other concepts for the design, as there's something that just didn't feel quite right about the first one you see there.  While I like the shallow angle of the blues and the green, there's something about the black section that looked odd (namely that it doesn't match the other's angle).  I'm now leaning towards the first design I did (top left corner).  It's the simplest of the versions, and likely the strongest.

Now I have to figure out how to attach the cells to the delta.  I'm leaning towards sewing pockets for the spars in the delta, thus concealing the four back spars.

[makatakam]

I'm liking the second one going across. The others look too Darth-Vaderish.

[K'Tesh]

This afternoon, I got a shipment of ripstop for this build...  1.5M (wide) x 4M (long) black cost me 40 RMB ($6.23USD).  Now it's time to get serious.

 

[K'Tesh]

Amazing how large a 9' wide kite really is.  This is the rough pattern for 5/9 ths of that.  WOW, this is going to be a monster.  Next I'll have to make the patterns for the individual parts before I can start cutting ripstop.