After the success and fun of building the Zaephay and the Skiron, I decided to build another light wind quad lined kite. This time an indoor flyer was on my mind and I started to google for some inspiration. I found quite a lot of it and after a quick chat with Anders, I got to work. I cut out the sail panels and – well, that was it, for the time being.

Yesterday, however, I had some time on my hands, and I put the sail panels together, and while at it, I just finished the complete kite and managed to squeeze in a test flight before the darkness set!

So just before the darkness hit, I walked over to the local park to give it a go, the first test flight. The conditions were aweful with really gusty winds coming from all directions! However, I hid in the wind shadow of some trees and managed to get, no, not good conditions, but somewhat better.

So my first impressions must be regarded somewhat … skewed by the conditions. The kite surely did fly, but as I feared, it felt a bit “flat” in the air and it was difficult to keep a constant forward speed. Pulling on the handles din’t make the kite accelerate the way I’d like it to and this also gave the kite a skittish feel when flying.

I did some field bridle adjustments and things got a bit better but not to my satisfactory. But I have a few ideas on how to improve things!

First, the leading edge is pretty straight, so one of my remedies are to put a more significant curve into that LE. Second, I’ll go over the bridle and see if all measures are correct and symmetric. I might do some more bridle tweaks as well.

So stay tuned for more on this … still unnamed kite of mine!