Masque
A demanding kite for team flying. Capable of very impressive stuff (trickability) but also suffering from a lack of stability in several of our requested features. This kite must be flown and there’s no free lunch. We found it too risky to fly Masques in a 6 man team (with our flying skills).
Test result
8,0 Speed
9,3 Tracking
7,3 Cornering
7,7 Steps down
7,7 Stall (from a horizontal trajectory)
8,0 (Snap)Stall (from a vertical up trajectory)
7,3 Halt (stalled position) from a vertical up trajectory)
5,7 Keeping the Stall position
5,3 Side slide
7,7 Circle 20% (2 x wingspan)
9,7 Circle 100% (constant speed)
8,7 Wind window
8,7 Speed Control
8,0 Axel to Fade
7,7 Overall impression
116,7 Total Score
Test pilot comments:
- Must be flown to do crisp corners, easy to lose the pressure
- Unstable when stalled, requiring tending from the pilot
- Wobbly when side sliding, requires tending
- Extremely trickable!
- Requires a skilled pilot, can do wonders
- Hard to do a stable stall
