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41. Ririn


Flying and flowing 		Ririn - video



Flowing
42. ThorNado


ThorNado development 		ThorNado


Black/yellow 		ThorNado video.




Cerise Outriggers

The rest of the kites.

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1. A-Kross


2. Fold Black


3. Who's flying whom?


4. Volvolare
View details of kites 1 - 85. Go fly a Kite, Charlie Brown!


6. Sverker Longship






7. Ruler of the Sky


8. SHARK
9. Salida Sled

10. Fly50

11. Flag

12. Sueño de Barrilete
View details of kites #9 - 1613. ReTurn

14. Confusion (Fat Flat Rok)

15. Red Tail

16. Sake Dako
17. Absolut Kite

18. Nokap

19. Flyn

20. WannaBees
View details of kites #17 - 2421. PentArch

22. Stockholm 1912

23. Coded & Decoded

24. Ikan & Sakana
25. Square Foot

26 BAHCO 10

27. Don't Waste Your Time

28. Money Laundry
View details of kites #25 - 3229. Imposters

30. Block Shot

31. YangTze

32. Butterfly
33. HumbleBee

34. Nyoman Shimmy

35. Roebuck

36. Ronbus
View details of kites #33 - 4037. Svein

38. akka

39. Niëlje

40. Forty³

A local cargo boat broke its anchoring outside my beach during a storm and was washed ashore by high winds and big waves. My beach was thus turned into a shipyard for a few days as the broken outriggers were repaired. When the outriggers were being painted I noticed it was in exactly the same cerise shade as the tail of the Thor Nado!

The black/yellow ThorNado has an even bigger aspect ratio on the FFR, and this seems to cause the wing spars to flutter in strong wind.

Due to lack of enough black ripstop when making the kite the front is different.

ThorNado was many years in coming. In 2006 I wanted to make a kite for strong winds, having a long tail. I made the Red Tail (see #15) where the wing is based on a FFR, Fat Flat Rok. But I made it in a very complicated way of sewing. It could fly well for a while but always needed a tedious adjustment of the bridle before each flight.

A simplified version was HarryKane (also as #15), but it didn’t look well.

With ThorNado I reverted to the tapered tail that starts a a tunnel keel, and introduced an asymmetric bowtie sail for the FFR and a much easier way of sewing.

The plan for ThorNado can be found under menu Kite Plans on this site.

The rippling flowing of the tail is of course a heritage from the Balinese Janggan kite.

I wanted to visualize ‘Flying and Flowing’ and do it in green colours.

A long tail was obvious for ‘flowing’ and I wanted to use organza to get a light and airy impression.

The first try, making a green Ronbus and adding a tail, didn’t work well: the Ronbus didn’t have enough lift for the drag that the long organza tail induced.  So I needed a good lifter; a kite with a big wing span, and it was just a question to make a wing shape that looks nice to the eye.

The prototype in Nylon paper flew well, and it could lift the amount of organza that I intended to use. But I couldn’t prevent the double tapered tail that I had used with the Ronbus from rotating, so I settled for a long tail that would be an extension of the lifter.

Then it was just to implement a green coloured graphics that would seem to initiate the flowing in the tail.

I wanted to visualize ‘Flying and Flowing’ and do it in green colours.

A long tail was obvious for ‘flowing’ and I wanted to use organza to get a light and airy impression.

The first try, making a green Ronbus and adding a tail, didn’t work well: the Ronbus didn’t have enough lift for the drag that the long organza tail induced.  So I needed a good lifter; a kite with a big wing span, and it was just a question to make a wing shape that looks nice to the eye.

The prototype in Nylon paper flew well, and it could lift the amount of organza that I intended to use. But I couldn’t prevent the double tapered tail that I had used with the Ronbus from rotating, so I settled for a long tail that would be an extension of the lifter.

Then it was just to implement a green coloured graphics that would seem to initiate the flowing in the tail.

I wanted to visualize ‘Flying and Flowing’ and do it in green colours.

A long tail was obvious for ‘flowing’ and I wanted to use organza to get a light and airy impression.

The first try, making a green Ronbus and adding a tail, didn’t work well: the Ronbus didn’t have enough lift for the drag that the long organza tail induced.  So I needed a good lifter; a kite with a big wing span, and it was just a question to make a wing shape that looks nice to the eye.

The prototype in Nylon paper flew well, and it could lift the amount of organza that I intended to use. But I couldn’t prevent the double tapered tail that I had used with the Ronbus from rotating, so I settled for a long tail that would be an extension of the lifter.

Then it was just to implement a green coloured graphics that would seem to initiate the flowing in the tail.

The rippling flowing of the tail is of course a heritage from the Balinese Janggan kite.

I wanted to visualize ‘Flying and Flowing’ and do it in green colours.

A long tail was obvious for ‘flowing’ and I wanted to use organza to get a light and airy impression.

The first try, making a green Ronbus and adding a tail, didn’t work well: the Ronbus didn’t have enough lift for the drag that the long organza tail induced.  So I needed a good lifter; a kite with a big wing span, and it was just a question to make a wing shape that looks nice to the eye.

The prototype in Nylon paper flew well, and it could lift the amount of organza that I intended to use. But I couldn’t prevent the double tapered tail that I had used with the Ronbus from rotating, so I settled for a long tail that would be an extension of the lifter.

Then it was just to implement a green coloured graphics that would seem to initiate the flowing in the tail.

ThorNado was many years in coming. In 2006 I wanted to make a kite for strong winds, having a long tail. I made the Red Tail (see #15) where the wing is based on a FFR, Fat Flat Rok. But I made it in a very complicated way of sewing. It could fly well for a while but always needed a tedious adjustment of the bridle before each flight.

A simplified version was HarryKane (also as #15), but it didn’t look well.

With ThorNado I reverted to the tapered tail that starts a a tunnel keel, and introduced an asymmetric bowtie sail for the FFR and a much easier way of sewing.

The plan for ThorNado can be found under menu Kite Plans on this site.

The rippling flowing of the tail is of course a heritage from the Balinese Janggan kite.

I wanted to visualize ‘Flying and Flowing’ and do it in green colours.

A long tail was obvious for ‘flowing’ and I wanted to use organza to get a light and airy impression.

The first try, making a green Ronbus and adding a tail, didn’t work well: the Ronbus didn’t have enough lift for the drag that the long organza tail induced.  So I needed a good lifter; a kite with a big wing span, and it was just a question to make a wing shape that looks nice to the eye.

The prototype in Nylon paper flew well, and it could lift the amount of organza that I intended to use. But I couldn’t prevent the double tapered tail that I had used with the Ronbus from rotating, so I settled for a long tail that would be an extension of the lifter.

Then it was just to implement a green coloured graphics that would seem to initiate the flowing in the tail.

ThorNado was many years in coming. In 2006 I wanted to make a kite for strong winds, having a long tail. I made the Red Tail (see #15) where the wing is based on a FFR, Fat Flat Rok. But I made it in a very complicated way of sewing. It could fly well for a while but always needed a tedious adjustment of the bridle before each flight.

A simplified version was HarryKane (also as #15), but it didn’t look well.

With ThorNado I reverted to the tapered tail that starts a a tunnel keel, and introduced an asymmetric bowtie sail for the FFR and a much easier way of sewing.

The plan for ThorNado can be found under menu Kite Plans on this site.

The rippling flowing of the tail is of course a heritage from the Balinese Janggan kite.

I wanted to visualize ‘Flying and Flowing’ and do it in green colours.

A long tail was obvious for ‘flowing’ and I wanted to use organza to get a light and airy impression.

The first try, making a green Ronbus and adding a tail, didn’t work well: the Ronbus didn’t have enough lift for the drag that the long organza tail induced.  So I needed a good lifter; a kite with a big wing span, and it was just a question to make a wing shape that looks nice to the eye.

The prototype in Nylon paper flew well, and it could lift the amount of organza that I intended to use. But I couldn’t prevent the double tapered tail that I had used with the Ronbus from rotating, so I settled for a long tail that would be an extension of the lifter.

Then it was just to implement a green coloured graphics that would seem to initiate the flowing in the tail.

The black/yellow ThorNado has an even bigger aspect ratio on the FFR, and this seems to cause the wing spars to flutter in strong wind.

Due to lack of enough black ripstop when making the kite the front is different.

ThorNado was many years in coming. In 2006 I wanted to make a kite for strong winds, having a long tail. I made the Red Tail (see #15) where the wing is based on a FFR, Fat Flat Rok. But I made it in a very complicated way of sewing. It could fly well for a while but always needed a tedious adjustment of the bridle before each flight.

A simplified version was HarryKane (also as #15), but it didn’t look well.

With ThorNado I reverted to the tapered tail that starts a a tunnel keel, and introduced an asymmetric bowtie sail for the FFR and a much easier way of sewing.

The plan for ThorNado can be found under menu Kite Plans on this site.

The rippling flowing of the tail is of course a heritage from the Balinese Janggan kite.

I wanted to visualize ‘Flying and Flowing’ and do it in green colours.

A long tail was obvious for ‘flowing’ and I wanted to use organza to get a light and airy impression.

The first try, making a green Ronbus and adding a tail, didn’t work well: the Ronbus didn’t have enough lift for the drag that the long organza tail induced.  So I needed a good lifter; a kite with a big wing span, and it was just a question to make a wing shape that looks nice to the eye.

The prototype in Nylon paper flew well, and it could lift the amount of organza that I intended to use. But I couldn’t prevent the double tapered tail that I had used with the Ronbus from rotating, so I settled for a long tail that would be an extension of the lifter.

Then it was just to implement a green coloured graphics that would seem to initiate the flowing in the tail.

The black/yellow ThorNado has an even bigger aspect ratio on the FFR, and this seems to cause the wing spars to flutter in strong wind.

Due to lack of enough black ripstop when making the kite the front is different.

ThorNado was many years in coming. In 2006 I wanted to make a kite for strong winds, having a long tail. I made the Red Tail (see #15) where the wing is based on a FFR, Fat Flat Rok. But I made it in a very complicated way of sewing. It could fly well for a while but always needed a tedious adjustment of the bridle before each flight.

A simplified version was HarryKane (also as #15), but it didn’t look well.

With ThorNado I reverted to the tapered tail that starts a a tunnel keel, and introduced an asymmetric bowtie sail for the FFR and a much easier way of sewing.

The plan for ThorNado can be found under menu Kite Plans on this site.

The rippling flowing of the tail is of course a heritage from the Balinese Janggan kite.

I wanted to visualize ‘Flying and Flowing’ and do it in green colours.

A long tail was obvious for ‘flowing’ and I wanted to use organza to get a light and airy impression.

The first try, making a green Ronbus and adding a tail, didn’t work well: the Ronbus didn’t have enough lift for the drag that the long organza tail induced.  So I needed a good lifter; a kite with a big wing span, and it was just a question to make a wing shape that looks nice to the eye.

The prototype in Nylon paper flew well, and it could lift the amount of organza that I intended to use. But I couldn’t prevent the double tapered tail that I had used with the Ronbus from rotating, so I settled for a long tail that would be an extension of the lifter.

Then it was just to implement a green coloured graphics that would seem to initiate the flowing in the tail.