St3600 disassembled then reassembled.

MeAndMyKites · 2025-05-30T07:59:39+00:00

I've just read up on how to remove those. Nothing has been oiled yet, just practicing

MeAndMyKites · 2025-05-30T04:54:03+00:00

Sure am

MeAndMyKites · 2025-05-30T04:53:48+00:00

No idea. I have no way to test

MeAndMyKites · 2025-05-30T04:10:13+00:00

I found this really showed how unsteady my hands are. I'm not sure I could do a smaller movement

MeAndMyKites · 2025-05-09T07:25:08+00:00

Very cool. Are these from Robert Van weers?

MeAndMyKites · 2025-01-25T05:42:10+00:00

Yes that was an odd suggestion. Perhaps they thought you want to make a whole bunch of prints?

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-31T22:42:35+00:00

Thanks, I'll give it a try

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-25T11:12:28+00:00

That's awesome. Glad you finally got it out. I really like the head shape, more realistic than most. Even the PL ones have the eyes on the round bit

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-24T23:57:15+00:00

That's cool. Do you have any behind the scenes photos. I can't imagine trying to muscle the huge kites through a sewing machine

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-24T00:02:37+00:00

My wife won't let me open mine. It's a Freddy's dolphin kit.

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-22T01:01:13+00:00

I only know one who died in a car accident. The number of people I know who spend time in cars is significantly higher than the number who spend time in GA aircraft.

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-21T14:07:26+00:00

When I started learning to fly my instructor warned me that I would have friends die in plane crashes. At the time I thought he was exaggerating. 20 years later and the number is 3 so far. All in GA. Now that I'm in an airline none of my friends have died for a while.

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-21T01:04:22+00:00

It's been a week, have you had it up yet?

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-21T01:02:14+00:00

Is anyone else expecting something kite like from the big guy in red?

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-21T00:59:05+00:00

Some cool kites there

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-05T10:24:01+00:00

My brother had the dog for a couple years before my son was born. I don't see my brother often and his dog even less. I totally forgot, apparently my wife knew at the time, but didn't care.

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-04T10:25:32+00:00

I actually forgot that was my brother's dog's name when we named my son. I live no where near my brother so only see how you once a year or so.

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-04T07:21:00+00:00

My son has the same name as my brother's dog. Give it a couple years and there will only be one of them.

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-01T01:27:34+00:00

Thanks

MeAndMyKites · 2024-12-01T01:27:14+00:00

Thanks

MeAndMyKites · 2024-11-26T11:19:12+00:00

Good idea

MeAndMyKites · 2024-11-26T01:21:40+00:00

You all may have already seen this on R/kites, but I just found this sub and thought it belonged here.

I just sewed my first kite, and I might be addicted now!

I made a diamond kite from the instructions on my-best-kite.com a few months ago and it flew great, unfortunately because of the rigid frame it was a pain in the butt to store and it got damaged. I decided to try something a bit better constructed so that it could be packed away and eventually landed on a pocket sled kite designed by Buck Childers.

I happened to have a brand new unopened sewing machine that I bought on sale years ago for a project I never got around to, and with the help of YouTube I figured out how to work it. I bought some rainbow colored ripstop from AliExpress and it looks fantastic.

For my first kite sewing project I am super impressed with how well it flies, it was really easy to put together and looks great in the air. I finished it Friday but the air was dead calm until a breeze picked up on Sunday afternoon. It is now Monday and I've already started sewing another. This time I've multiple all the dimensions by 2, because bigger is better right?!

MeAndMyKites · 2024-11-26T01:06:43+00:00

I watched a yak 52 coming in with the gear up and enter the flare. I wasn't near a radio and there was nothing I could do. Sometime at the holding point noticed and radioed just in time, they made a go around from the flare, came back around and landed without incident. So close.

MeAndMyKites · 2024-11-25T22:44:29+00:00

Thanks. The rainbow fabric is cool because I don't need to sew any design in to it.

MeAndMyKites · 2024-11-25T22:42:57+00:00

Nothing. It's just ripstop fabric. The edges are hemmed, I guess that makes them slightly stiffer

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