a short discription of the experiment by florian scharscher.
This is all about a little project I always wanted to do!
To attach one kite to another is called kite stacking. I heard rumours about it but couldn’t really find any further information. In fact the only thing I knew, is to try it with similar kite sizes and in predictable (light) conditions. I was talking to my friend Alex and Robert about it and we were lucky enough to have 2 equal kites in size & model. Check out following material about our first try…
To hook you up with further information, it went like this. The bigger size kites seem to work perfect for this. A huge kite is slow, this prevents nervous behaviour and also the best conditions seem to be around 5-12 knots. We used 4m line extensions and attached them to the original connecting points of each kite. The result was pretty nice, stable and strong. To launch was easy with 2 friends, to re-launch, I guess impossible.
For sure kite stacking will never be main-stream but its easy to do and a lot of fun in light conditions! Still you need some skill and be precise on what you are doing. Ride safe!
ze staan nog stabiel in de lucht, enkel voor de springen denk ik niet dat dit ideaal is
stefkiter had een 4 sterren sessie in Borssele met maar liefst 25 - 35 knots op zijn Core GTS (2011)
lunatico had een 5 sterren sessie in Texel paal 17 met maar liefst 19 - 29 knots op zijn Zeeko Krush (2012)
Het zou ook makkelijker gaan als de achterste kite een maatje
of 2 groter was geweest.
mossel had een 4 sterren sessie in Heist met maar liefst 16 - 21 knots op zijn Ozone Reo (2019)
Nadeel is als er eentje uit de lucht valt dan heb je meer dan spaghetti
