Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 1994 06:44:20 -1000
From:	plepez@is1e.bfu.vub.ac.be (Lepez Philippe)
Message-Id: <2hp0p4$nuh@rc1.vub.ac.be>
Organization: Brussels Free Universities (VUB/ULB), Belgium
Subject: A bad kite : follow up.

Hi all,

some time ago ( maybe months ago ;-) I told you about "a bad sky dart" that
doesn't want to turn. It was a modified design. The answers ranged from
"trow it away, it will never fly" to "move the pick point down" I try a lot
of bridle adjustment with no success. But finaly the answer came from a snail
mail lettre of Esben Colstrup (sorry Esben if I mess your family name). Esben
uses a longer main bridle. With his bridle the kite was not yet ok but I could 
move the clip down and now the kite flies.
OK I just can't try to stall it (snap stall) or I lose the control of
the kite, but it now is what it was ment to be : a kite I can put in
beginers hands in case someone ask me to try a kite.

Thanks for your help and good winds.

Philippe.

PS. With the original bridle, when you hold the kite by the pick points over
your head and move the clip down the kite had a tendency to fall nose first,
and not tail first. Can't see why.
--
Philippe Lepez       (CP 125), |                           |       Good kite
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, | Email: plepez@ulb.ac.be   | +     Good wind
50 av. Roosevelt,              | Phone: 32.2.6503553       | ----------------
1050 Bruxelles,      Belgique. | Fax  : 32.2.6503323       | = A lot of fun !


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