Rev Kite Team Notes, The Decorators

The swifts have finally arrived in Hackney and at Blackheath.  Their fast/slow interactions in flight are an inspiration every year and their screaming calls the signature of summertime.A light wind exercise on Blackheath today.  The premise being that the full vented B1.5 can be flown in light breezes with extra input from the flier and that th...

The trees in Greenwich park have turned full spring green in the last four weeks.It was a quiet day on Blackheath today compared to the rigours of the previous 3 weekends.Mid vented 1.5s with race rods were good to start with at 10:00am but the windspeed gradually freshened over about 2 hours so we changed to full vented 1.5s and finally Xtra Vented 1.5s...

Arrived Saturday midday and the strong westerly breeze rolling across the buildings was not really 'flyable' so as it was not a day that was formally part of the event we retired early to a late lunch. ;-) Sunday was sunny but the wind, although lighter, was still from the west and given the available space on the beach it was far from clean.  W...

Another full day at Cervia ending in the arena with Team for Fun.  Zens to Vented today, mostly sunny with very light showers falling from blue sky! Off to Mare Vita shortly followed by the Sicilian 'meeting' <grins> Felix

Arrived back in London from Berck c7:30pm this evening. The team used everything in the team kit during the four days in attendance.  Xtra Vent, 1.5 full Vented, Standard 1.5 and the Rev1s.  Once again, a very good event. The team kit had to be transferred to the flight case this evening which meant de-sanding all the kites as well....

The isobars were close together on the weather map this morning but the expected temperature was way up compared to the last few weeks.The strong (c20mph gusting 30?) southerly breeze saw us checking 80 and 100ft line sets ahead of Cervia with a quick run through of Moby with Rev2s on the 80ft lines.  As some of the fliers had rarely or never flown t...

There was a light breeze, there was some sunshine, It was Zens rather than Xtra Vents, quite a contrast to the last few weekends.The circus was still in place and we were early so heard the build-up to the 11:00am show and then flew with background music highlighted by the crash of the cymbals.    The 'extra brake' setting for the high wind...

The clocks changed so I was late on Blackheath today.  Still cold so some of us went for Xtra Vent with race rods.  The extra movement on the ground did help in keeping warm and it was interesting to see how well this configuration coped in the wind window against a standard full vent sail.  I guess the windspeed was averaging 10mph so occa...

Late March gloom with an overnight dusting of snow did not present any real obstacle in getting to Blackheath today but the wind chill on site made it feel colder than any other flying day this winter.Full vented with green race for me again was over stressed on a couple of occasions even with extra brake.  My kite and others with different frames we...

Showery airflow from the South East today with occasional glimpses of the sun through deep layers of cloud.Full vented 1.5 with green race again for me and unusually I was first on site so time for some 'solo' flying.  The first shower passed before other fliers arrived. We then flew freeform only daring to look back when shadows were occasionally vi...