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12m Blaze - Lightwind Monster

Blake - 11-1-2011 at 02:58 PM

Hi Guys

Here ia cool video of a friend of mine flying a 12m Blaze that I converted into depower for him. As you can see it works quite well. He had the entire Bay to himself that day!

Blake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx8YfjISpDA

kiteetik - 11-1-2011 at 05:58 PM

nice!! i like the differnt camera angles!!

Feyd - 11-1-2011 at 06:05 PM

I gotta make a line mount! Looks great!

Surface looks wicked creamy. What were the winds blowin?

Nice having all that space solo sometimes.

Houston AirHead - 11-1-2011 at 07:34 PM

awesome video, those blazes are so versatile

Kamikuza - 11-1-2011 at 11:14 PM

Verah nice! :thumbup: am jealous again :D

mdpminc - 12-1-2011 at 08:23 AM

Blake, well done !!!
I have an Ace and a Sprint that I would like to convert to depower sometime.
Care to share some details on the mod; ie bar, depower, lines layout, lengths, pulleys or rings, etc.. ???

btw.
How did that bar from Jo (doranswan) worked out?. I bougth the 20" off him. (on the way now)

Blake - 12-1-2011 at 10:49 AM

Mdpminc

As for converting the Ace and Sprint to depower, forget it! The bridle arrays are all wrong to achieve the required A-B, C-D cascades needed to install a depower line with pulleys.

Blake

mdpminc - 12-1-2011 at 03:58 PM

Blake,
So do you think a FDS set-up similar to FS would work ?.
I rigged up a home made FDS based on the sketch: http://picasaweb.google.com/mdpminc/DePowerAndKiteControl#55...
Let me know what you think ?

Marek