B-kites

The maiden flight of my new kite. The sail, designed by Chris Meynendonckx. was based on knitted wool. It's also the first time that I am using the appliqué technique on a larger (than my light table) scale.

The kite is made on the plan of Ivo van Olmen. Please find in attachment the original plan.

Nobodies land

A beautiful piece of land between the Netherlands and Belgium. 5 Bft Gusty wind conditions. Flying the PFK kite bringing my camera almost a 100 m above ground.

Oostelijke Spuikanaalweg 4411 Rilland, Nederland 51° 23.626', 4° 14.266'

Grey Wet but Fun

We spent a weekend in Zeeland. The weather wasn't all that good. But we had a great time walking at the beach for hours. Driving home, I couldn't resist to stop the car and take out my KAP equipment. Here some pictures of the area near vuurtoren strand - Ouddorp.

Birthday party for Lisa & Sara

I promised to make some kites at the birthday party for Lisa & Sara...

Live of a kite man can be very hard!

Looking for the Mary Maersk

I was so happy to make some pictures of the biggest container ship in the world. Back home I found out that it was an other ship....(or did they put the wrong picture in the newspaper).... anyway this one was also very very big!!! Please let me know who is right...!!

Hot cut

An other exercise for hot cutting!!

A Della Porte kite with lion head made for testing out my new cutting tool. Thanks to recommendations of Christian Baden Powell.

zero wind

There was almost no wind today, A temperature of 17 degrees and a little sunshine; what else do you need to get your low-wind kites out. I was hesitating to take out my new Plutz3 from Leong Cheewan. I have to admit, It's not always that easy to set it up in the field. But what a blast! What a kite! It's hanging there! It doesn't want to come down. Totally different flying experience than the PlutzII. Once you get the feeling of putting and releasing tension on the line you can get the kite wherever you want.

To finish the day, I had to take out "the long way home" from Horvath.. for that long long glidepath....

Some more pictures:

The long way home I
The plutz II

Some more videos;

"The long way home" kite - Justitiepaleis Antwerpen - I
"The long way home" kite - Justitiepaleis Antwerpen - II
"The long way home" kite - Justitiepaleis Antwerpen - IV
"The long way home" kite - Justitiepaleis Antwerpen - V

Zora

Made this morning a present for Zora. I hope that she gone be a great kiter!

Some links:

An other example I

An other example II

An other example III ; Noor

Workshop for kids

Singapore

We were invited for a kite festival in Singapore at the Marina bay organized by Act3. It was a very special festival with live opera music and a lot of international street acts.

The wind conditions at the marina aren't that great, so we had to work hard to keep our kites up in the air. (The holy man and many other kites had be rescued from the bay)

Good buddies; Danny and Rajesh, showing me the area.

A areal few on the festival

Eh eh what do you need more than my billboard guarded by these two security man

A great show of quad liners

Setting up my booth

We spend almost a full day flying our zero wind kites

All pictures of my stay in singapore

Do you see the church

It's a special place in the harbor of Antwerp. Checkout if you can find the church....
"Oosterweel" was a small town north of Antwerp. It was leveled to the ground for the expansion if the Petroleum docks, Only the church ('t Kerkske van Sint Jan de Doper) still remains.
Screenshot of the area (Thanks to Hugo)