
They flatten out and offer low resistance to the airflow. Known for being able to cope with a very stiff breeze since Them fly reliably from a single attachment point. And it flewĪlso, there are those who like to modify larger kites to make Large Wau kite from Malaysia on a single leg bridle though.

I do remember seeing an incredibly ornate and rather Guaranteed to be much good for anything else, particularly in the So, one-leg bridles work fine for 25% diamonds, but cannot be My smaller designs had terrible flying characteristics with a single leg bridle! The 1-Skewer Sode in particular. If it is attached at just the right spot. In theory, any flat or bowed kite will fly on a single leg bridle Wiggle about a lot, tracing their erratic motion in the air with a long Some flyers actually appreciate kites that

The distance from nose to tail, along the vertical spar.Ī diamond constructed and bridled like this is not the smoothestįlyer, but with enough tail it will stay in the air reliably over aįair range of wind speeds. Short line tied around the crossing point of the spars, with a small However, the much bigger MBK Simple Diamond uses a separate
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On this page, I have chosen to illustrate with photos of Dowel Series kites and one Multi-Dowel Series monster-the 2.4 m (8 ft.) rokkaku. Each photo corresponds to the kite highlighted in bold type, closest to it in the text. In all the photos, a yellow dot represents a bridle-line attachment point. Proven kites, starting from one leg and working up to five legs. That's from the tiny 1-Skewer ones right up toĭown below, I've gone through some bridle examples from these With five-leg bridles on kites that suit them.Ī few things can be learned about bridles from looking at Limits of flyability with single-leg bridles and enjoyed smooth sailing With the odd kite bridle over quite at few years :-) I've pushed the

With flying quite a few different types of kites, rangingįrom 29 cm (11 1/2 in.) up to 2.4 meters (8 feet) in span, I have fiddled Same again with the Indoor series, which all fly from a single point. And thenĬame the Paper Series, which went back to dihedraled kites again. OK, so there was the Soft Series for a while. That's about all we flew around here, except for the occasional This page is devoted to the bridling of flat, bowed, or dihedral kites
