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Planting Kite

By:

Mitch Cordover

Challenge: 

Kitchen Sink DIY

Planting Kite

As shown, the materials are all items found in a non-kite-builders home. Planter flats from a flower purchase, gardens stakes, tall plastic trash bags. The flats are held together with tape and bound around the outside with bamboo plant stakes tied at the corners and hot glued to the plastic "sail". The plastic bags are fused into a banner tail with an iron between layers of kitchen parchment paper. It is bridled like a Rokkaku.
It was gusty today and I could get it to momentarily lift, but it would need a stiffer breeze. (Full disclosure: the last time there was a beach wind in Missouri, the air was blowing off the glaciation of Iowa.) Still, I posit that it flies.

Video Link: 

If the creator of the submission did not submit a video, the above link will take you to the recorded workshops from the WFGKC

Planting Kite
Planting Kite
Planting Kite
Planting Kite

Challenge Details:

Kitchen Sink DIY

This is a fun and easy challenge meant for everyone from a first timer to the experienced kitebuilder. It is simple. Using only items easily found in a common home, build a kite, anything and everything but the kitchen sink! It can be an established design, or one all of your own, the point is simply to build with what you have on hand

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