The big rokkaku comes to mind on just about any light-wind day. But if there's any rising air about at all, this kite always serves up a treat of thermal flying! At other times, often late in the afternoon, it will just hang up there in the lightest of breezes, steady and smooth. Nice.
Many people will have seen a rok or three at a kite festival—but rarely anywhere else! So it's something different.
It's fun to fly this kite on a long line. Go right up to whatever the legal limit is in your region. For some lucky people in unregulated airspace, that might mean several thousand feet!
The e-book is handy for these reasons:
In addition to basic construction and flying info, the e-book also provides
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Rather than drone on about everything the e-book contains, I'll just let you look over the Table of Contents, below:
Did you notice that bonus kite design in there? In a nutshell, here's what you get when you build the Multi-Dowel Rokkaku:
*** A kite with twice the span and four times the sail area of the Dowel Rokkaku.
*** A five-leg bridle for extended wind range.
*** When de-rigged and packed down, this kite is the same length as the Dowel Rokkaku package!
The video below shows the Dowel Rokkaku on a fairly short line, moving about in a light breeze before accelerating upward:
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