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The other hanging device which I haven't used yet since the strings keep getting tangled. Arggg

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Other end of the hanging bracket. Fixed up with duck tape because it almost cut my string in two. That would be bad! Kite flys away and camera hits the ground.

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Kap rig pics

FIRST KAP Mission a Success!

We sent the camera up to about 200 feet. Macey seen here holding the kite up was my assistant for the 20 minutes. Yes she has gloves on so when the line goes out it won't burn your hand or take a finger off. How do I know to wear gloves? I nearly lost my pinky on the original first mission of the kite. It went out too fast and nearly took my finger. I had a severe string burn for quite a while. We set the camera to take a picture every 10 seconds. Ended up with about 50 pictures of which 2 or 3 are ok. HAHA..still work to be done.

My rig needs some adjustments. The hanger section nearly cut through my kite line. The winds were about 15 mph and not really solid, so the rig would bounce a little bit, hence the low keeper ratio.




The pictures are looking back to the east. In fact my house is in that group of houses on the right of the road.

I was going to try to send the kite up in my yard, but there were just too many obstacles and the wind wasn't a constant gust. So we ended up going over to the park.

Like I said, that was about 20 minutes, and only one trip up. I have some adjustments to make before the second attempt.

I'll try to put pictures of my rig up tomorrow. Stay tuned!

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One board done. One to go. Then the clear coat for both.

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First coat of orange

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2 month old pictures