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[louiedogg03]

Well after 12 years of flying my first Rev 1.5 SLE I finally decided to hang her up on the wall. We have had a lot of good flights together. I first flew her in Newport, Rhode Island at Brenton Point with my uncle, Jay Nunes. Shortly after I flew it I smashed it into the ground and broke a rod but lucky me, Sue gave me a brand new one to replace it. I have a lot of good memories thanks to this Rev. I still remember the first time I hovered it. I owe that to watching Scotty and drooling at his hovers. I have chase my kite on 75ft lines trying to catch it and I have dove into rip tides in North Carolina after hovering a little to close to the waves for a sweet picture. The Rev family has taught me a lot of cool tricks and after about 3 years of non stop deployments I finally have to time to take my 4 new Revs out of the garage and hang my first on the wall in my man cave to pay tribute to all the fun that it brought me as a child. Thanks Revolution Kites and thanks for the support everyone has given me on my deployments. I am going to need it in November when I head out yet again!!





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Edited by louiedogg03, 04 January 2011 - 05:41 PM.

[Jynx]

That's Classic! Maybe someday... if I'm lucky enough to fly as long, I'll do the same!

Edited by Jynx, 05 January 2011 - 03:18 PM.

[stroke survivor]

Still flying my Rev 1 from the mid-90s, don't see any reason to hang it up yet!!! I'm from Newport, RI, but before kiting was the "in"thing! Sir, fly hard between now and November, and we all thank you for your service to our country!!!

[Kitelife]

I have two retired Rev photos to share...

#1 - My blues from the first set of SLEs (pre B-Series) that iQuad got in October of 2006, these 3 Revs saw TONS of travel/airtime and a lot of "key" moments for our team in just one year.



#2 - One of my old, old Rev I's that I had signed by nearly 50 people over the course of 2-3 events in 1994 when I thought I was retiring from kiting for good (boy, was I mistaken).



They have a place of honor on the wall in my kite room, a lot of memories every time I look at them.

[stevepigeon]

Like the Man Cave!!

[Kitelife]

Sort of, but like at your house, the kite room is both man and woman's cave.

[stevepigeon]

Sort of, but like at your house, the kite room is both man and woman's cave.

We're going to get Lou's wife Jenna flying at TI... that Man Cave may go bye bye...

[louiedogg03]

The man cave won't be going anywhere. Jenna knows she isn't allow to take over the garage. That is the one place that for right now is till safe.