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#1 User is offline   alnegri Icon

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Posted 28 April 2008 - 09:53 AM

Hi.
I owne 3 Rev. All of them have the rods on the front side (the pilot side).
I went to a festival and a master told me the rods must be on the backside.
Is it true????

thanks.

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Posted 28 April 2008 - 09:57 AM

View Postalnegri, on Apr 28 2008, 06:53 PM, said:

Hi.
I owne 3 Rev. All of them have the rods on the front side (the pilot side).
I went to a festival and a master told me the rods must be on the backside.
Is it true????

thanks.

alberto



Yes its true ..... Rods on the back ALWAYS! I know from bitter experience having flown with rods on the front for the first few weeks.....

Change to the back and you will be amazed how much more control you have!
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Posted 28 April 2008 - 12:16 PM

View PostJonesey, on Apr 28 2008, 01:57 PM, said:

I know from bitter experience having flown with rods on the front for the first few weeks.....

Change to the back and you will be amazed how much more control you have!


Ditto... Heck.. I read in this forum somewhere that even J.Barresi flew with them on the wrong side in the beging. Put them where they awt to be and you'll see a change as drastic as Night and Day especially if there is anything over 10mph for wind!!!! :kid_devlish:





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Posted 29 April 2008 - 02:20 AM

Thanks all.

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Posted 29 April 2008 - 06:56 AM

View PostJonesey, on Apr 28 2008, 06:57 PM, said:

Yes its true ..... Rods on the back ALWAYS!


Not Quite Always :kid_content:
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Posted 21 July 2008 - 10:53 AM

I quite nearly made the mistake of trying to fly the kite with the rods in the front, and was saved when I actually sat down and -- gasp -- read the instruction manual. There was something highlighted in there saying that the vertical spars go on the back of the kite, and I must say, the thing was hard enough to handle during my first flight, so I'm glad I didn't make it any more difficult than it needed to be by messing up the assembly.

It seems counterintuitive to put the rods on the back of the kite like that, especially when you see the sail all stretched out over the rods when it's full of wind. But I guess that's the idea -- make the ends of the wing straighter probably helps stabilize the kite in some arcane manner.
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Posted 21 July 2008 - 11:38 AM

The vertical spars are the equivalent of the spine on a dual line kite; so they always go on the back to give the sail the correct shape.

A Rev with the spars on the front will fly, but it flies like a pig :D
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Posted 21 July 2008 - 02:27 PM

rods go on the back always.. never tried them in the front .. i wonder how the kite flies like that
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Posted 21 July 2008 - 04:09 PM

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i wonder how the kite flies like that

^It flies like a pig! :D
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Posted 21 July 2008 - 08:45 PM

View Poststeveb, on Jul 21 2008, 08:09 PM, said:

^It flies like a pig! :D


lol... thanks, I needed that!
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Posted 21 July 2008 - 09:23 PM

A few islandQuadders tried out the iHog P-Series Quad on Sunday at the Parksville Kite Festival.

I couldn't hold it steady enough one-handed to get any good pics, but Cathy took quite a few. It was a lot of fun, but it doesn't even fly as well as a Rev with the spars on the wrong side. ;)
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Posted 21 July 2008 - 09:53 PM

View Poststeveb, on Jul 21 2008, 10:23 PM, said:

A few islandQuadders tried out the iHog P-Series Quad on Sunday at the Parksville Kite Festival.

I couldn't hold it steady enough one-handed to get any good pics, but Cathy took quite a few. It was a lot of fun, but it doesn't even fly as well as a Rev with the spars on the wrong side. ;)


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Posted 21 July 2008 - 10:09 PM

View Poststeveb, on Jul 21 2008, 05:09 PM, said:

^It flies like a pig! :D

How about a Pig Mega Fly? All revs must have the down rods on the front!
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Posted 03 October 2008 - 09:01 PM

If you all think a bee flys like a pig try a blast with the rods backwards ;)
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Posted 06 December 2010 - 02:53 AM

Here is a giggle for you all... My 2nd hand t300 rev 1 arrived 4 days ago and on the instruction on the old owner I loaded vert spars upwind.
I've logged 8 hours so far and have been so impressed with what I've been able to do that I'm now trying to fathom what I will be able to do !

As a side note- I got my duel line delta out today and kept trying to curl back my pinky fingers to brake: )
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