design and construction

    Top: Recreation: Kites: Design_and_Construction:

• - Kite building plans, tips & techniques.
  
• - Power kite design and construction, buggy plans, trick kites, and photos.
  
• - Details of Paul Garber's World War II naval gunnery target kites. Includes contemporary instruction manual and patent data.
  
• - Hints and tips for building Chinese kites.
  
• - Plans to build the Team Triangle and vented Team Triangle kite.
  
• - Traditional construction of the Japanese Hata.
  
• - How to make ariroplane kites. photo gallery.
  
• - Detailed discussion of soft foil design and construction.
  
• - Measurements of the relative stiffness and weight of spars.
  
• - Tips for tuning a Tim Benson Gemini sport kite.
  
• - A site dedicated to miniature kites including plans, kits, construction tips, building materials, photo galleries and contest results.
  
• - Russian site with tools for modeling the behaviour of textile structures interacting with fluid.
  
• - Plans for inflatable kites and gear. How-To guides for construction. Information and instruction on kite surfing, ice-kite-buttboarding.
  
• - Andy Beveridge provides construction advice for the traction kite builder.
  
• - Design and building instructions for ram-air foils and inflatable sled-style foils using CAD type software.