Something new from Ozone

[Ozone Kites AUS]

Finally Ozone has produced a crossover kite that can be used on land/snow and water, available mid March

[NYKiter]

...looks like a WWII airship dirigible...

[Bille]

...looks like a WWII airship dirigible...

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And everyone who Doesn't have there Head up there Ass, Knows :
"it's one of those funny blimp looking things, that currently holds the
land speed record in a buggy" !!

NO LEI, has ever come close .

[flyingweasel]

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[marekmk]

have seen three of these flying in the past few days, average wind over 2 min, 6knts.

super solid, does not make much sense as the kite has such a high aspect. beautiful to watch

in the air. this is a low wind race machine that nothing on the market for the time being will come close to.

I have owned 3 flysurfers over the years and have always ended up selling those kites, interested

in them but always disappointed the end. this kite might change my disappointment in ram air

kites

[Life_Is_Awesome]

Very excited for this kite! I love my Flysurfers, but competition is good. Great validation for the closed cell foil segment too. PMU will be very disappointed.

[s1buell_wl]

Very excited for this kite! I love my Flysurfers, but competition is good. Great validation for the closed cell foil segment too. PMU will be very disappointed.

I'll be watching I would like to add a foil to the kit. Ozone knows how to make things that fly that's for sure.. This will be interesting. I would love a high aspect ratio 12m foil for 27-30kns.

I've been looking a the new FS 12m.... But now I think I'll wait a little longer

No more sleep for PMU. He will have to get the ctrl-c and ctrl-v buttons all warmed up!

[davesails7]

Looks like an answer to the Elf kites that caused all the controversy this year.

Did the Elf kites wind up being able to compete at the world championships in China? I thought they got banned, but then I saw some in the video after the event.

[marekmk]

Very excited for this kite! I love my Flysurfers, but competition is good. Great validation for the closed cell foil segment too. PMU will be very disappointed.

I'll be watching I would like to add a foil to the kit. Ozone knows how to make things that fly that's for sure.. This will be interesting. I would love a high aspect ratio 12m foil for 27-30kns.

I've been looking a the new FS 12m.... But now I think I'll wait a little longer

No more sleep for PMU. He will have to get the ctrl-c and ctrl-v buttons all warmed up!

From my limited understanding this is a pure low wind kite for racing

[Billy B.]

...looks like a WWII airship dirigible...

...

And everyone who Doesn't have there Head up there Ass, Knows :
"it's one of those funny blimp looking things, that currently holds the
land speed record in a buggy" !!

NO LEI, has ever come close .

Billy,

Lets not confuse the task Brian accomplished with the gear he had, vs the gear no one else has tried.


If there were people trying to set buggy land speed on both then you would have a winner.

I wonder why are the speed run, water athletes not using a foil style kites to break the 60K mark on water, and maybe even how fast does a buggy go behind say a 7M or if they made it a 5m or 3.5m edge?

Here is your field? Paraglider top speed around 60kph( heavy speed bar) hang glider around 90kph. Why is this again?

I have lined up lots of buggy kites and other foils when I was a ozone athlete we wanted to see what was faster so we tried all of the kites we had ( lots of ozones fastest foil was the yakuzas, Peter Lynns, fly surfer pyscos, ozone mantas, frenzys) in the past and had them go head to head with Inflatables on snow speed runs and in my experience, the ridged air frame tended to be easier to go faster with, any distortion due to input error of the foil kite and you lose shape and power...Granted we are only going 60-70 mph on snow.

Not having to edge a buggy means handles work well, when you have to edge not so much.

A great foil kite on a bar may out run a pump up kite but in till I see it head to head I can only speculate based on my experience, with both.

I assume you have flown both head to head and have a personal favorite for speed runs?

I would love to see a shake down, but I think the results from current kite speed records where both foil and pump up kites are utilized speak for them selves.

I of course wish Ozone all the best with this new shape and hope it is super successful..

I may have my head up my ass as you say, but my merits would prove I am a competent kiter, weighing in on what seems like a straw mans argument about "those blimpy things"