Woodie said:

captain_spalding said:

Michael V said:

Bugger.

Like my motorbikes, but different. Two are gone. Two to go, somewhere, sometime, somehow – there’s a place for them.

Whereas i have acquired something.

Just about finished making a new delta kite. 2 metres across at the base.

Hand-sewn in calico, just need to make the reinforcing for the line attachment on the keel, and it’ll be ready for a try-out.

Is it meant to fly??

Damn right it is.

High hopes for it. The previous one was a bit of a bodge job, but with a few tweaks, it flew quite ok. Eventually, the ends of the rods wore through the calico, and a few other things failed.

This one has been made a bit more carefully, and some of the defects that appeared in the Mk. 1 have been addressed.