Date:	Mon, 4 Sep 1995 10:32:09 -1000
From:	kfh@login.dknet.dk (Ken Friis Hansen)
Message-Id: <99sImaBr1qn1065yn@login.dknet.dk>
Organization: DKnet / EUnet Denmark - Login Tjenesten
Subject: 6. Int. kitefliers Meeting, Romo

I have just returned from this year's Romo festival organized by the Danish
Kite Club. Romo is normally cold, stormy and wet, so this year's festival made
quite a change with warm weather and little/no wind on Saturday and fairly
warm weather and 5-7 m/s on Sunday. Really nice ... you could wear your T-shirt
all day.

While the weather was all new for Romo, the kites were mainly yesterdays news.

I did however get a chance to fly the new vented Tramontana from HQ. Ralf from
Flic-Flac was kind enough to lent me his brand new. It has a 6 mm Cfk Exel
frame, like the standard version, but the center black panel and the black panel
closest to the wing tip has been replaced by mech. This takes a large piece off
the surface area and wind range goes up to about 12 m/s. It was very nice to
have all the germans come up to me and ask "did you make that yourself", and be
able to answer "no that will be out from HQ soon"!!

It flies great. I am *not* the worlds greatest stunt kite flyer, but the Vent.
Tramo. preformed very well. It has *very* little pull! I was able to stall it
and side slide it all over the window in 6 m/s, and someone more skillful than
I would have been able to a lot with this kite. Price should be just under the
standard Tramo.

Ralf also told me that HQ has a UL Tramo with P31 and Skyshark (I think) on the
way.

Also on Romo I picked up what HQ calls the "Indoor-Kite", but this kite should
have been named Baby Tramontana. It has 93 cm wingspan, 2mm Cfk frame and P31
Icarex sail, price DM 98 (app. $67/#42). I have not had a chance to fly it yet,
but it sure is a nice little toy.

I did also get a chance to fly (strugle with) Windtool's 6.5 m2 Mosquito, which
is from the new eliptic (sp?) Windtools serie. It it fourline crossbridle and
comes in two more sizes 4.5 and 9 m2. The 6m2 is a very powerfull kite, and I
found it easy to control, it has a large window, and can be made to stand still
or side slide or wing tip stand. In 5-6 m/s it provided alot of traction, and
later when we went buggying it proved to be very fast.

Well I did see something new after all, and Romo was better than ever ... not
least because the weather was better than ever before.

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Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 1995 07:28:39 -1000
From:	flicflac@login.dknet.dk (Ralf Dietrich)
Message-Id: <777LmSUOpBYH079yn@login.dknet.dk>
Organization: DKnet / EUnet Denmark - Login Tjenesten
Subject: Re: 6. Int. kitefliers Meeting, Romo

kfh@login.dknet.dk (Ken Friis Hansen) wrote:
>I did however get a chance to fly the new vented Tramontana from HQ. Ralf from
>Flic-Flac was kind enough to lent me his brand new. It has a 6 mm Cfk Exel
>frame, like the standard version, but the center black panel and the black panel
>closest to the wing tip has been replaced by mech. This takes a large piece off
nope, it is not the black panel closest to the wing tip, it is the white one. 
Out of the wing, you get this parts on a vent. Tramontana:
colored panel, mech panel, black panel, white panel, mech panel
normal is:
colored panel, white panel, black panel, white panel, black panel

>Ralf also told me that HQ has a UL Tramo with P31 and Skyshark (I think) on the
>way.
i wish it would be Skyshark one day - but right now, it is only Ultra-RCF 6mm.
The wight is something about 298gr, windrange from 0.5 - 4 Bft

And there is a third Tramontana edition: Tramontana Competition High Performance.
Icarex, g-force-UL, weight 303gr, windrange from 0.5 - 5.5 Bft

Both of the UL4s with Bow-Line

CU Ralf


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