Can you share your experience with your lifters?

I was very lucky to have visited Peter Lynn while on holiday a few years ago. Wow. He let me sew a new pattern 1skin boomer on his home sewing machine. Mecca. I’ve used that kite as my main go to lifter ever since. OK it’s not perfect. The design has just sooo much lift to weight, unreal pull. But it has an overpowered imbalance which can eventually send it hunting way down to the sides.

It can be tamed with tails in various configurations but they’re never 100% balanced. It can be really easily steered with the b2 lines so as a 3 line kite it’s rock solid.

Another trick which needs to be explored more is flying from a networked bearing mount.
Tests of this have involved setting basically 2 hubs on an axle the top hub as a frame to fly from… The bottom hub is used to guide the axle… This way the flight inclination (set by the top hub tilting ) is guided by the bottom hub & setting the axle angle (which can also be tethered to use as a lift line)
Each of the bridles on the standard model is the same length 3.1m ( for ease of manufacture mostly I think) but if the steering bridles are connected a bit further out from the axis… Axle tilt leads to the kite aligning to the hub (likewise brake & nose make fore and back)

Because wide lines can now be used for steering and stability… I reckon That could make for an amazingly simple & massive tight net, mesh-like surface for mounting hundreds of lift kites as one meta kite.
Or at very least a very simple platform for a controller.

Can’t see my tilting hub steer test on YouTube
In the meantime…

Still can’t find any video of me testing a hub steer… Know I filmed it once.

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