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Glides of March - Day 28

Friday was a banner day as a day off from work and steady winds forced me out to the kite field.

Two full hours of flying the rev b in an empty park with earbuds in place. an approaching storm front was producing wonderfully consistant 5-8 mph wind, with a gust to 12 every now and then. it was great but not really gliding weather.

Even though the park was empty, every now and then i would look over and find someone watching nearby. kiteflying is like that.

anyway, after a couple of hours the wind started to wane and the rev was becoming tough to keep aloft.

i brought out the plutz and flew it around a bit. the wind would still come back in waves and the plutz would point into the wind or hunt around almost like a fighter kite. eventually the wind came back so i put the plutz away.

i had my fighter kites with me so i decided to try my luck with the hoopty. i haven't put much time in flying fighter kites, it is one of those things i always plan to do but just don't seem to find the right time. well this was the right time as i was able to get the hoopty to break free from circling long enough to climb pretty high up and then it would streak back and forth like the hyper critter it is. the hoopty was fun and i really need to put more time in with the fighters.

so by now the wind calmed again and it was time for the wala. it took no time at all to have the wala out on all its line and it too was lots of fun on the large field.

finally i got the emong out and had it on a long line. it flew nicely but the gnats would attack whenever the wind would go away, so i was eventually run off the field.

back home i flew an orange vented iflite sans photo op. ;-)

Kites Flown:

Revolution B Series

Plutz3 Pop Art

Jeff Howard Hoopty

Emong by Flying Wings Kites

Wala by Flying Wings Kites

iFlite I #1432 Twin Vents Orange

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Friday March 28th, 2014

Glides of March - Day 28