Photo Blackheath 10th July 2022

Four Rokkakus 1992
Size: each 195 x 168 cm

Windspeed too much wind for stack 11mph Blackheath 09/10/2022.
Windspeed for stack 7mph Blackheath 21/08/2022.
Windspeed for stack 9mph Portsmouth 30/07/2022.
Windspeed for stack 3mph Blackheath 10/07/2022.

The Rok and Rev Tour 1992
Starting in Denver, Colorado and ending in Lubbock, Texas with JMH.
This was an experiment in flying JMH kites alongside the Revs with his graphic design.
Photo Denver

The conditions seemed right to try the two kite stack today.

The switch of bridle lines only took a couple of minutes.

If something goes wrong the stack descends quite slowly.

Marian caught some images of preparation and flying as well.

We had another light wind session so I was able to configure the lower bridle bungee in the yellow kite. The bungee and override link line can be seen in this image.

Three Zens flat on the ground.

The ground anchor bungee could feed the slack and then slow the line for the next flier input. This proved to be an added bonus of using the spectra flying line with the in-line bungee.

Thanks to Marian Linford for the images today.

Bridle test flight for the dark blue sail. Both kites have a peg in the top bridle set. Yellow, one clove hitch, blue, one clove hitch plus 1/2 hitch!

The blue kite was on c30m 2.5mm spectra on a ground anchor, the yellow kite on the same 2.5mm spectra but hand held.

I was on 1/250th second, f16 ISO80 for these images. I need a faster shutter speed in future!

Video from today, 15th August 2021.
Video on 5th September 2021

Thanks to Maggie Walker for these images.

It is a long time since I have mixed the Rev with Roks!