weight / projected area = onepossible light wind indicator

flyingweasel · **Joined:** Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 387

herculon wrote:

by the way, the selfmade nasawing is made out of 21 gramm per sqm ripstop nylon! now that i call a lightwind maschine :-)

regarding opencell kites on water: there is a very nice video of kitelehrling surfing with his ozone yakuza in virtually no wind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc7mQhj5-hg

and an impressive 720° circle while in zero wind while just walking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvVc8L1_1I

this is light wind magic !

Those vids are great , that 720 is amazing
How about adding projected aspect ratio to the list?
I also don`t reckon a kg or so spread over 19 square meters makes too much difference to the kites ability to fly ie compare FS standard and delux fabric figures. of course added to one wingtip which is so easy :roll:

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herculon · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:32 pm **Posts:** 115

new kites in the list on the first page!

Peter Lynn Vapor 9.4 qm -- makes 5th place !!
and some Peter Lynn reactor II

crash&burn · **Posted:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:42 pm

nauseating,

What a waste of time.

do you guys ask yourself "How can we make this sport look even more gay?

Light wind kiting has been around for ever its called Sailing.

voodoospirit · **Posted:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:59 pm

well, could be worse, u could do some newschool tricks.
newschool has been around for ever, it s called wakeboarding.... :jump:

herculon · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:32 pm **Posts:** 115

here, my personal new light wind kite - the pl twister 7.7 -- massive amounts of power even in 5 knots, but sadly also a slow truck that tends to collapse after a jump,if you don't watch it.

Code:

+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Kite                       |   A  |  pA   | pA/A | mass | m/pA  | UR |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Peter Lynn Twister I       |  7.7 |  6.7  | 0.87 | 1.30 | 0.194 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+

and a weight correction for the ozone zephyr from 5kg to 4.1 kg:

Code:

+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Ozone Zephyr 2009          | 17.0 | 12.7* | 0.7  | 4.1  | 0.323 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+

can someone please approve this?

Kamikuza · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:51 pm

Rev Powerblast 4-8

had it out in 1 knot today - only ju-uuust flying ...

herculon · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:32 pm **Posts:** 115

kami, then put the powerblast on a kitchen-scale and give me the weight in gramm.
i wish i could fly a powerblast sometimes...

herculon · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:32 pm **Posts:** 115

new kites! thanks to philipp!

Code:

+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Kite                       |   A  |  pA   | pA/A | mass | m/pA  | UR |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Wingine Cooper  2009       |  4.4 |  3.7  | 0.84 | 0.887| 0.240 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Wingine Cooper  2009       |  2.1 |  1.8  | 0.86 | 0.446| 0.248 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Ozone Cult 2009            |  6.5 |  5.66*| 0.87*| 1.48 | 0.262 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+

herculon · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:32 pm **Posts:** 115

some new kites in the list on the first page (coopers, pkd century soulfly, nasawing 7sqm)

complete list on first page

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2360753

Code:

+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Kite                       |   A  |  pA   | pA/A | mass | m/pA  | UR |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Nasawing NPW9b (selfmade10)|  7.0 |  5.6  | 0.8* | 0.450| 0.080 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Nasawing NPW9b (selfmade09)|  6.0 |  4.8  | 0.8* | 0.395| 0.082 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Ozone ULTRALITE Paragl. 09 | 23.0 | 20.16 | 0.88 | 2.85 | 0.141 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Wingine Cooper Ultra Light | 10.2 |  8.67*| 0.85 | 1.56 | 0.18  |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+

herculon · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:32 pm **Posts:** 115

new data:

Code:

+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+
| Peter Lynn Vapor 2009      |  6.5 |  5.64 | 0.87 | 1.148| 0.204 |    |
+----------------------------+------+-------+------+------+-------+----+

and data from PL reactor kites was corrected.

weight / projected area = onepossible light wind indicator

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