Harald Prinzler
Mikroelektronik, Fesseldrachen und Fotografie
Detmolder Straße 93
D-33175 Bad Lippspringe
Phone: +49-5252-7830
email: harald@hprinzler.de
URL: http://www.hprinzler.de

Sketches Flowform no. 4

These sketches for the flowform no. 4 are made by Alberto Bonati, Italy. Thank you very much for this fine and fast work. Take care, the datas for the flowform by Alberto are a bit different to the datas of my flowform. But, they work fine, too.

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To lead the drag better through the keels it is better to make the keels out of more than one piece. First, draw a line through the half of the angle at the bridle point to the base line (use keel K1). With a base line of 5m I have to divide these pieces again. Take care to the orientation of the fabric.

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Between the handmade profiles (p2, p3, p4) and the profiles calculated with my airfoil calculator KiteFoil 2.00 are some small differences in the profile shape. I think the flying result is nearly the same.

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