Larry's Kites
at Wolfden Press
With instructions below 
for building three easy kites
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 The Sled Kite by Larry
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 The "Eddy" Kite by Larry
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 Here is Larry' small Eddy Kite
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 Delta 46" from "Kites on a Roll" |
 The Super Flyer 46" by "Go Fly a Kite" |
 The Wild Flyer 50" by "Funtastic"
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 A small Delta 28" made with nylon, dowels and glue |
 A Wild Flyer, modified to make it a two line "stunt" kite |
 A larger, 39" delta which is similar to the 28" delta
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The two kites below were made from the book "The Great Kite Book" by Norman Schmidt.
The construction is of tyvek and dowels with glue, and they are painted with acrylics.
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 Sasha, flying the Red Admiral at the beach
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 Larry, getting the Barn Swallow ready
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 Here is my wind sock, sewn up with kite material
and blowing in a nice breeze
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 Also, from kite material,
the "spiral wind twister", a little wind indicator
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 Line winders made with wood, CD disks,
bolts, dowels,
and a pvc coupling
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 Larry's aerobatic (stunt) kite "The Sparrowhawk". Shown here with spars of wood. Waiting for the carbon to come.
It actually flew this way and did a few turns.
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 Here is wind sock (twister) #2. This one is 49" (125 cm) long and requires a little more wind to make it stand up and spin.
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Tails will often help stabilize a kite and, what I like about them is they look great too. Here are a few of my kite tails.
 This traditional kite tail has 80 pieces of nylon and is 10' (305 cm) in length.
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 The wind sock was not made as a tail but it works well behind my delta. |
 The tube tail here is about 4' (122 cm) but only 2" (5 cm) in diameter.
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 This was the first tail, made with pieces of tyvek and nylon.
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Flying kites near trees is not very healthy for the kites. However, since we live in the forest, I do not have much choice
but to test fly among the trees. The wind is usually light—when it does come it is in short gusts.
The "flo-form" was launched from our lawn, with not much space to get it air-born.
 Here is the small "Iris-spinner" by Larry
The size is 36" (92 cm) in diameter.
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 The Flo-Form 15
This kite is my biggest project,
so far. Lots of sewing. |
 Larry's color "Eddy" kite.
Made of rip-stop nylon,
It measures 40" (102 cm).
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The three pictures below are from a kite building workshop at "Pacifica, A Garden in the Siskiyous" for their Art Sunday
All of these kites, made by children and their parents, were from "Kites on a Roll" www.kitesonaroll.com
 The Spider Man delta kite. The first one
completed at the workshop
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 Spirals, a beautiful yellow, green and white
color combination
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 Another great design. In the light breeze,
all the kites flew wonderfully well
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 Lots of kites hanging in the Kite Shop and waiting for a breeze |
 My "Ultrasonic Wind Speed Meter" - built from a kit and spare parts
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