New Creative DIY MIA Trike-A-Sail (TM) Prototype using Steel Telescopic Square Tubing and Tyvek

I found this really interesting.
Lots of time and effort gone into your design. Well done.

I spend a lot of time and many many kilometers using race foil kites to power me in my kite buggy. The advantage of a soft wing is the ability to compress it to pack up. Not so important on a model. The current model single skin power kites pack away to a tiny package considering the over all square meterage of the kite.

I totally agree about the bridle tangles when they go wrong. This one took me 1.5 hours to undo and also a few beers.


A bit of fun on a very light wind day. Wind was measured at 3 knots and I was buggying with my ELF 18 m2 kite. Top speed was 46kmh.