Article 26184 of rec.kites: Path: tug!ibmpcug!laura.pcug.co.uk!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!yale!oitnews.harvard.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!harvard-gateway!andrew From: Andrew Beattie Newsgroups: rec.kites Subject: Re: Chevron progress Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:40:06 +0100 Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University Lines: 20 Sender: news@das.harvard.edu Message-ID: <9606062340.aa07822@tug.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: endor.harvard.edu Originator: daemon@endor > I flew this at Basingstoke and while I'm no expert foil flier, it was > obvious to the untrained eye that this kite is really something. The > most impressive thing was the ridiculously small turning circle (the kite > almost snakes around itself) and the inability to fold the kite up, even > for a lutz like me. In fact, this is a bug. I don't mind it snaking up on "extreem" input, but it was doing it on "reasonable" input. I think that it's fixed now. I messed around with the cross-bridle trying to fix it, but I think that the real problem was with the primary bridle - I think that it wasn't powered up enough, so it didn't have sufficient internal pressure to cope with the amount of steering effort coming from the cross-bridle. I've managed to retain a similar steering response - I want to describe the feel as "twitchy", but maybe I've been flying 13m^2 too long... > I have no commercial interest, blah, blah, disclaimer, blah, blah with > Andrew other than an interest in seeing what he comes up with next. The cheque is in the post.. Andrew This is signature number 100