Better Lifter?

Flexifoil Blade Mk3 9m,is a good lifter

And your point is?,OH NO i forgot im in the single line Doda thingy whatever section,Sorry Keith

No worries JB, you're posting in the right section of the forum. Funny, I only see one line, what happened to the other three mate?? You know you like it...............!!

Does it matter how many lines the kite has got?,ITS STILL KITE FLYING mate

john fewell wrote:Flexifoil Blade Mk3 9m,is a good lifter

the 10.5 is even better

Is this what you're looking for?

mark wrote:Is this what you're looking for?

Well it might be just what I need, not too sure at the moment. What is it? Was I looking for a man lifter??

It might not look much... but it's historic.

Any guesses?

gorilla69 wrote:Actually JB, it probably does matter. Would you classify this as a kite, or an aircraft? No strings attached, remote control.
Come to think of it, your colour scheme isn't it! LOL!!

Is it me or does this look like a flying bum??

mark wrote:It might not look much... but it's historic.

Any guesses?

My guess would be: The kite was used to lift radio antennae many hundreds of feet in the air. Probably used around the 1900's by Guglielmo Marconi in his wireless experiments, shortly before he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. As I said, this is only my guess. LOL!
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A pioneer of the heavy-lift kite was Baden Baden-Powell, pre-WWI aviation pioneer and guiding force behind the Royal Aeronautical Society. In the 1890's he developed large hexagonal-shaped "Levitor" kites which were intended to be used by the army in order to lift a man for aerial observation. In 1901 radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi made the first successful transatlantic wireless (radio) tests by raising the antenna 400 feet by means of the Baden-Powell Levitor Kite. Marconi also experimented in shore-to-ship radio communication from Babylon in 1901, possibly using these kites to raise the antenna.

and of course theres the cody!!!!

Spot on guys! Who's the kite guru now?

That was the Baden-Powell Levitor which was used on December 12, 1901 when the first radio signal was transmitted across the
Atlantic from Cornwall, England to St John's, New Foundland.

Keef, medical advice... chose your lifter well and it will reduce the load on your knees!

mark wrote:Keef, medical advice... chose your lifter well and it will reduce the load on your knees!

Hi Mark, cheers for the praise and the historic lesson. Stu obviously researched the subject matter very well, whereas mine was only a guess. LOL!
The right lifter may well reduce the load on my knees, but will play havoc on my shoulder sockets. By the way, we are talking kite lifters and not shirt lifters aren't we?? LOL!

Kite lifters for sure.

Monkey bars will strengthen up your shoulder sockets and take the load off your knees!

Simples.

To answer the original question, no, most kites will wander when wind conditions are such to cause wandering, those that don't are still on the ground in their bags cos they won't fly anyway.
From what I have seen when Roks become overpowered they are likely to roll over and dive toward the ground at increasing speed the sled will do something similar but hurts less if you happen to be in the landing zone.

so you seen my kites fly then Bruce............

Stu wrote:so you seen my kites fly then Bruce............

Come to think of it...I do seem to remember you were wandering around a bit too...

i remember that day nice bit of wind and a nice stack of 6's,8's and 10's.

It did drag me a bit............

As you may know, I am normally the sensible one on the forum


who are you kidding...lol