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| Built at: Oct.25.2000 Last update: Dezember 06, 2004 |
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I am building kites for many years. Since 1999 I am a KAPer. You can see some of my kites in the next pictures.
My kites for KAPing:
1,7m Hexagon "Ghost Buster"
Built: 04/1990
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| The 1,7m Hexagon
"Ghost Buster" Camera: SONY DSC-F505 Cyber-shot, 1600x1200 fine |
The 1,7m Hexagon
"Ghost Buster" as tractor for kiteline decoration Camera: SONY DSC-F505 Cyber-shot, 1600x1200 fine |
One of my oldest kites is the 1,7m hexagon "Ghost Buster".
Wolfgang Schimmelpfennig wrote in his building plan that you have
to take 10mm roundwood. At the first start of my new kite, it
cracked in only a few seconds. Since that day, I use 10mm
fiberglasspipes. In the ends of the pipes I glue wooden sticks.
The tail of such a kite should be 7 times longer then the
diameter. That means, 12 m for this kite. The pull of the
kitelines are catched with aluminium-rings forward to the
fiberglasspipes.
The kite is flying very savely and smoothly in a windspeed from 3
up to 6,5 m/s. In higher windspeed, the kite beginns to stagger
left and right, and when the windspeed is higher, it turns around
and falls down.
I can KAP with this kite in a windspeed from 3 to 6,5 m/s.
Normally I fly this kite with a 1,5mm polyesterline with 80 dN.
For KAP, I use a 2mm line with 113dN.
1,75 m² Flow-Form # 1
Built: 09/1999
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I was searching for a kite that flys savely and smoothly and has no pipes. What I have found was a Flow-Form at the WEB-Site from Harald Prinzler. The advantage of this kite is, that you can make it up in a short time and its bag is very small. I thought, that the pull of the kite in the size of 1,45 x 1,2 m was stronger then the pull of my old Ghost Buster. But in my first KAP-sessions I found out, that the pull is the same. As kiteline, I took the 2mm polyesterline with 113dN. KAPing is possible in a windspeed from 3,5 up to 9 m/s. |
| My Flow-Form with approx. 1,75m² Camera: SONY DSC-F505 Cyber-shot, 1600x1200 fine |
Other kites:
Snowflace
Built: 03/1988
| The snowflace, built with a plan from Wolfgang Schimmelpfennig, is one of my oldest kites, too. When I built up this kite on the beach, people often say: "That kite will fly?" And it flys very good. But it needs a windspeed of at least 4 m/s. If the wind gets lower, the kite glides down to the bottom very slowly. Because the kite has a lot of cells, it flys very save and smooth. But for KAPing the pull is not strong enough. So I only have to use a line with 1mm in diameter and 45dN. |  |
| Snowflace whit a
length of 1m. / edge Camera: SONY DSC-F505 Cyber-shot, 1600x1200 fine |
Parafolie
Built: 11/1992
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The plan for this parafolie is from Fred Drexler, Den Haag. The kite is 2 m wide and 1,33 m high. The pull of this kite is great for KAPing, but it doesn´t fly very save. At the start and at the landing it is staggering in an alitude under 10 m. The kiteline I use for this parafolie is 3 mm in diameter and has a max. load of 140 dN. |
| Parafolie with 2,66 m² |
Snoopy and "Knüpfer"-Snake
Built: 05/1996
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Snoopy, from a plan of Rolf Sturm, Düsseldorf. The first time I have seen this kite, I took a lot of pictures out of kitemagazines and books. I measured the pictures and draw a plan for my own snoopy. At the kiteflyermeeting 1996 at FANO, Danmark, I spoke with "Hans from Holland" about the construction. On Hans´ kite, there is a Happy-Hippo in the cockpit. Later then, I have had a talk with Rolf Sturm himself. 1997 this picture of my kite and the snake was in the touristmagazine of the German island "Langeoog". The quality of this scan isn´t so good, because of the printout from the magazine. |
| "Knüpfer"-Snake and Snoopy |
Links to other KAPers and more you can find in my Surfers Guide.
I like to be available for questions, suggestions or experience exchange.
I would be very pleased about an entry in my visitor's book.
Manfred
http://KAP-Man.de
Manfred