And Now for Something Completely Different - A Giant Show Kite
While KAP Jasa kite society is mainly doing kite aerial photography, we do kites too ... We have made a couple of KAP workhorses (a venerable Rokakku, a couple of deltas, Millie the french military kite, a fled and a Royal 69 sled), but we designed and made some showkites too - to fly them for fun, at kite festivals and for the amusement of general public.
Exaggeration is the word when we - and by 'we' we mean Janez, or dr.agon as he prefers - design and make kites. This one is no exception:
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This huge air monster - a Giant Wiener Doggo Kite - is, well, really huge. Almost 70 square meters of fabric; the kite itself (with Caly the Kite Dog appliqué) is 6 meters wide and 1,5 m high, made of ripstop nylon, while the tail is 15 meters long and 3,60 m wide and made of taft.
Here is its first flight, in the beautiful Ljubljansko Barje Landscape Park:
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And it all began when Janez got himself a cute little dachshund - Caly ...
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Kite aerial photo of Caly the KAP dog on her first KAP session
Oooowwwww ... She would look so cool on a kite, right? Right! So Janez - dr.agon - dusted his sewing machine and ...
The completely new design - something between a genki and a multiplited fled was born ... and it flew beauifully:
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But it was soon apparent that it needs a tail, both for aesthetic and practical reasons (stability was a bit of an issue). And the tail must be ... well, exaggerated!
For all its enormity we - again, Janez, dr.agon - had to sew the tail in a big enough place; so Dragomelj elementary school kindly let us use their smaller gym.
On the test flight we realized we've created a monster. In a 20+ km/h wind we were left at its mercy; luckily it's so big that when it really catches the wind, its pull gets beyond strong slowly, so one is able to handle it.
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And it's beautiful ...
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Now it's time to show it to the world - kite festivals await!