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OBSESSION 2
Type: Stunt, impeccable functionality
Lines: 2 (25 meter, 70kp)
Height: 90 cm. (35.5 in.)
Wingspan: 200 cm. (6 ft. 6 in.)
MFR: HQ
Mele Kaliki Maka
"Theh yeh goh!" video.
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NEW JAM
Type: Stunt, Classic Rainbow
Lines: 2 (100 ft., 80# spectra)
Height: 38 in.
Wingspan: 87 in. (7 ft. 3 in.)
MFR: New Tech Kites
For a good time... go fly this kite! Purchased for Ray's 49th birthday. Love the colors and the way it sounds when it is flying high. It makes this thrumming sound as it swoops on the outer turns.
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HQ SYMPHONY 1.8
Type: Stunt Parafoil, 14-cell
Lines: 2 (60-75 ft., 250 lb.)
Height: 24 in.
Wingspan: 70 in.
Beautiful to watch, strong pulling, fast, fun, and portable.
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TURTLE
Type: Delta
Lines: 1
Height: 54 in.
Wingspan: 65 in.
MFR: Premier Kites & Designs
Bought this simple to fly kite from store in Melbourne Beach. Defys gravity each and every time. Made in China with fibreglass struts.
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MARCEL
Type: Diamond - Eddy
Lines: 1 or 2
Height: 48 in.
Wingspan: 42 in.
MFR: Sky Scrapers Kites, denver CO.
Marcel Marceau - greatest mime ever! Using two lines lets you move kite up and down and flip it over to fly it upside down.
Pretty old kite - lucky to have found it at our Goodwill store.
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PIRATE SHIP
Type: Pirate Ship
Lines: 1
Height: 2.5 ft.
Wingspan: 2 ft.
Length: 6 ft (including SpinTail)
Made by: X Kites
Wonderful gift! A real eye-catcher in the sky. We flew this one the first time on Sanibel Beach with Pam and Marty. Everyone in the area was ohhing and ahhing over it. Trickily assembled 3-D nylon kite with 7 to 18 mph wind range.
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TRAINERS
Type: Stunt
Lines: 2 (60 ft., 250 lb.)
Height: 3.5 ft.
Wingspan: 4.75 ft.
This is one of two identical beginner stunt kites we got from eBay.
The first one they sent was missing spars so they sent us another one. Made spars and now we have two!
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OLD RELIABLE
Type: Parafoil
Lines: 1 (0-1000 ft., 100 lb.)
Height: ? ft.
Wingspan: ? ft.
Yard sale special. This kite ALWAYS flys well for us. Strong pulling, reliable and portable.
We travel much lighter now with a much smaller cooler (4 beers, 3 sodas, 3 ice packs), only one chair, and no more fishing poles.
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LARGE TET
Type: 4-cell Tetrahedron
Lines: 1
Height: 4 ft.
Wingspan: 4 ft.
We made this from cheap tent material and only flew it once. Collapsable but still large. Tail really helped.
Here's a video of this kite in flight.
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PAPER TET
Type: ?-cell Tetrahedron
Lines: 1
Height: 4 ft.
Wingspan: 4 ft.
Wonderful but bulky-big and non-collapsable cool kite with paper sails.
While flying just before sunset one day we buried the kite string handle in the sand and left the kite (paper, elmer's, sticks, string) to find it's own destiny. The exact number of cells remains a mystery.
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ASSY REQUIRED
Type: 16-cell Tetrahedron
Lines: 1
Height: 4 ft.
Wingspan: 4 ft.
Actually four 4-cell tetrahedrons meticulously tied together. Only flown once - parts used to make two smaller (no assembly) tetrahedrons.
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PLAYING CARDS
Type: 1-cell Tetrahedron
Lines: 1
Height: 2 ft.
Wingspan: 2 ft.
What do you do with a deck of cards that ain't all there? Make a kite! Massive tail required.
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ROKKAKU
Type: Rokkaku
Lines: 1
Height: 4 ft.
Wingspan: 3 ft.
Experimental kite made with plastic bags (one bag wasn't large enough), tape and bamboo. Only flown once - all busted up now.
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TRIPLE DIAMOND
Type: Triple Diamond
Lines: 1 (so far)
Height: 2.5 ft.
Wingspan: 4 ft.
Conglomeration of 3 small diamonds from a kite train failure. Soon to be a fantastic kite - maybe stunt capable.
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THE BOX
Type: 2-cell Box
Lines: 1
Height: 48 in. (16 in. sails)
Wingspan: 14 in.
Looks different now - longer sticks and bells added. Rarely flown but fun to watch / hear.
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WIDE ARCH
Type: 6-diamond Arch
Lines: 2
Height: 1 ft.
Wingspan: 9 in.
Glad this test arch flew. Takes up a lot of space on the beach. Needs to be 200 little diamonds to be interesting.
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MINIATURES
Type: Paper Calendar Kite
Lines: 1
Height: 10 in.
Wingspan: 8 in.
Aren't they special?
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LEAF
Type: Leaf
Lines: 1
Height: 8 in.
Wingspan: 9 in.
Soar leaf, soar. Catch that ocean breeze and soar with the Cocoa Beach pelicans!
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BEACH UMBRELLA
Type: Umbrella
Lines: 1
Height: 6 ft.
Wingspan: n/a
Found broken beach umbrella, removed cover, cut holes (to make the difficult 'Up-Parachute' effect possible), tied a bunch of strings to it and made it fly.
Don't miss the unbelieveable "Jellyfish in the sky" video.
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CRAZY EYES
Type: Line-Climber
Lines: N/A
Height: 1 ft.
Wingspan: 1.5 ft.
Hasn't worked yet.
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DIAMOND CLIMBER
Type: Line-Climber
Lines: N/A
Height: 1.5 ft.
Wingspan: 1 ft.
Up... Down... Up... Down... there's no end to the joy this adds to kite flying.
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NIGHTMARE
Type: Sled
Lines: 1
Height: 4 ft.
Wingspan: 4 ft.
We've tried and tried but this kite just doesn't want to fly. Kinda funny acutally.
Here's the video to prove it. Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
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In The Works... (can it be done?)
- Kite to fly T-Shirt / Towel at the beach - too heavy?
- Kite made from lightweight cardboard - not flexible enough?
- Kite Arch/Train we feel comfortable with taking to the beach - some success but...
- Pics of high-wind 27 in. SpinBox Made by: X Kites. 3-D rotating kite with ripstop nylon on a fiberglass 7-18 mph airframe.
- Pics / info of giant 12' floppy high-wind stunt parafoil
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