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Postby knotwindy » Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:53 pm
Velocity Made Good
overly simplistic is
Balance between max speed and max upwind/downwind to reach a mark
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Postby abel » Wed Aug 23, 2017 6:05 pm
Bushflyr wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:56 pm
^Love the polar charts, super helpful in visualizing the the kite characteristics. What's VMG (the inner dotted line) though?
Velocity Made Good (
I wonder who was the copyrigher )
The velocity component projected on the wind direction
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Postby Bille » Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:50 pm
Bushflyr wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:56 pm
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Dyneema and Spectra are, for all intents and purposes, the same thing. Just different brand names for the same stuff.
Yes i realize that ; my question is :
Are they using Spectra , (Woven-Fiber) on the Airush Ultra ?
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Postby airsurfer » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:08 pm
I think they're using spectra as reinforcement web across panels. the actual canopy material is probably a version of ripstop
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Postby Bushflyr » Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:16 am
Bille wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:50 pm
Yes i realize that ; my question is :
Are they using Spectra , (Woven-Fiber) on the Airush Ultra ?
As the fabric itself? No. The canopy is still Dacron. If you look at the pictures all that criss-cross stuff is Dyneema tape. It allows the canopy fabric to be lighter and the tape supposedly transfers the stress to keep the lighter fabric from stretching.
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Postby Bille » Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:18 pm
Bushflyr wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:16 am
Bille wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:50 pm
Yes i realize that ; my question is :
Are they using Spectra , (Woven-Fiber) on the Airush Ultra ?
As the fabric itself? No. The canopy is still Dacron.
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@ airsurfer & Bushflyr
Thanks !
I kinda thought it was gonna be a reinforcement of some type ; the
woven spectra is SO good, that i doubt they'd need a heavier fabric than
like .5-oz , (16.9 g/m2)
BUT DANG , it would be expensive !!!
A one strut LEI, made with 17-g/m2 woven Spectra, would be the Ultimate light-weight kite ;
unless Ya used that fabric to build a Ram-Air !!!
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Postby pikovsg » Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:11 pm
Nice video! What was it blowing?
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Postby windsuks » Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:44 pm
pikovsg wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:11 pm
Nice video! What was it blowing?
Not exactly sure but probably around 10-12mph max
The combo of P foil and Ultra is quite a hard one to beat on days like that.
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