Red Arrows eat your heart out!

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Red Arrows eat your heart out!

#1 Post by Boac » Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:26 am

Difficult to believe this is real.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nr9KrqN_lIg

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#2 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:55 am

Excellent video :-bd

I can't even fly one kite very well let alone three. ^:)^ :-O
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#3 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:51 am

Back in the mid 1970s I became obsessed with 'stunter kites' such that I decided to build my own 'super kite'.
I started with a roll of heavy duty plastic sheeting normally used for damp-proof membrane under building floors and acquired metal thin-wall piping (normally used for truck hydraulic brakelines) for the frame, and the resultant kite was about 9ft square.
I bought several hundred feet of braided fishing line to use as 'kite strings' and headed for the local recreation ground to fly it.
It flew high and strongly - in fact a little too strongly as it veered from side to side in response to my inputs.
It certainly was fast and powerful.
The assembled crowd were amazed by this leviathan and its swift manoeuvres.
Inevitably it headed for the ground in an accelerating dive and buried its 'nose' six inches deep into the grassy field.

Aware of the danger that had been averted (had it struck any of the spectators) I immediately retired the kite.
I had proved the principle and satisfied my ambition but decided that the risk to others was too great.

Shame - it was fun while it lasted,

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#4 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:53 pm

Boac wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:26 am
Difficult to believe this is real.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nr9KrqN_lIg
Quite extraordinary. I bet this chap with be a dab hand with one of those Afghani fighting kites.


https://afghanmagazine.com/post/1842987 ... g-and-kite
Though you remain
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"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."

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