They fly very well....the bigger version (in Chilese's picture) is the ul version...about 4' long.....
the smaller version (~3') is the normal wind version....
it flys with one wing set vertical and the other horizontal...there is one bridle hole (i made a second hole on another wing for a color difference on my small one)....solid rods ~.125"....the big one has ferrules at the middle point of the wing...
i would wager a guess that R-Sky designed it after watching Ramlal's Sentinelles...they fly in the same manner and a parallel design.
They are fun...i love actively playing with the smaller one....tugging the line and the kite flatten out and glide upwind...then it will slow to a halt and as it catches the wind the kite will roll backwards in the wind until the end of the line then pop itself back up again.....
their design makes them fly quite stable on their own....
two complaints about them:
- the Leading edges were made with the same ripstop that the skin is made out of....not as durable as it could be!!! but it does make for an easy replace if/when needed!
- the rods meet together at the disc that Steve referred to....4 rods each going in at the compass points....taking the darn things apart is hard!!!!takes practice....and i will admit that there was one time the kite came home put together!!!! it takes sliding the rods around so that one rod will have the most amount of area to be able to work it out of the disc at one end...get one rod out and you are golden.....
i got my pair from gwtw ~2002 or so and have not had the discs break...crossing my fingers!!!some of my favorite kites!!!!
