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How to Make a Barn Door Kite
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The MBK 1-Skewer Barn Door
How to Make a Barn Door Kite
Flying!
First, if it's very windy outside, stay home! This is a light-to-moderate-wind kite and won't like being launched in a gale.
Assuming there is some breeze outside, just dangle the kite at arm's length until the wind catches it. As long as you feel the kite pulling, let out line slowly by taking loop after loop off the winder.
Out in the Field
Barn-door kite stories of my real-life flying experiences are worth checking out!
Illustrated with photos and videos, of course.
Another
approach is to get a helper to hold the kite up and let it go, on the
end of maybe 15 or 20 meters (50 feet) of line. This way, the
kite soon gets high enough to make it easy to let more line out.
The picture shows this latest version of the 1-Skewer Barn Door kite flying in a fairly light breeze. The video below was taken on the same day after letting out a little more line.
Have fun flying, and I hope you've enjoyed learning how to make a barn door kite!
As mentioned earlier, there's more kite making on this site than you can poke a stick at. :-)
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The Big MBK E-book Bundle is a collection of downloads—printable PDF files which provide step-by-step instructions for many kites large and small.
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