The Dragon kite is based on a Genki kite, the body is inflated through the mouth. The frame is carbon tube 11 mm. and 6 mm.  It was built in 1991 and still is a real crowd drawer, wherever I fly it. It flies best in light winds, you can even walk around with it at days without any wind, which makes it even more spectacular. And by the way, it is not for sale. Plans of this kite can be found at: dragon
 ( 7 x 5 mtr )
The Phoenix bird kite is a soft kite based on a Peel, all available colors of icarex are used in this kite.  As a stunt kite it is a poor performer, I can just fly a circle at 50 mtr. lines, but it looks marvellous. The legs move, the feathers on the body move around, and the color of the tail changes due to the light shining through different layers of fabric. The combination of bright colors and detailed application work make it an outstanding kite, both close up and high in the sky.   
 
The building of this kite took 80 mtr of icarex, the bridle took more than 1000 mtr of dynema, and it took about 300 hours to built. Since it is a very big Peel design the pull is incredible. During its first public flight it won me this wonderful award.
 ( 7 x 5 mtr )
The Geometric Centipede kite is an excellent flier with an enormous wind range. That's not a real surprise since it consists mainly out of 20 rokkaku kites with triangles of fabric on the connecting lines to represent legs. The head is just a decoration and can be used  to attach fireworks for a fire spitting dragon or boxes of confetti for a more friendly dragon. Plans of this kite can be found at:centipede
  ( 0,85 x 1,00 x 25 mtr )
The killer whale is a softkite, designed in the autumn of 1993  at about the same time as Peter Lynn designed his dolphin. These sea creatures first met at the Scheveningen Kite Festival 1994, as you can see it was love at first sight. ( or was it first bite )
      ( 5 x 8 mtr )
The Waffle is one of my first own design and is a cross between Tsutomu Hiroi multicell box and a Peter Lynn box. It is successfully copied by other kite flyers and pictures of it appeared in several magazines.  In 1985 Valery Govig described it in an article in Kitelines as 'several Lynn units very compounded in  offset positions.  The design uses single pieces of cloth woven over the spars. Difficult to describe but very original' Plans of this kite can be found at: waffle
     ( 3 x 2,25 mtr )

 
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