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galewarning
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Postby galewarning » Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:10 am
Just saw this on Linkedin. There's another wing on the market, Vayu. Boards and kites to follow?
https://vayu.world/
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windmaker
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Postby windmaker » Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:57 am
Question is, who isn't making wings these says?
Checked the website, 2000 euros+ boards advertised as super lightweight but no mention of what you are actually paying for, the weight...
Everything is either out of stock or has a month delivery time.
F-One colors for the wings and design look like it was made for Vuarnet sunglasses.
Looks good!
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fluidity
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Postby fluidity » Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:59 am
Designer Bill Hansen is ex-switch kites. They ditched him and went to contract designers to drop the costs and (I think) get designs with lower bar pressure. I think Bill Hansen has an aeronautical design background... closer to wings than kites. Interesting that they also are coming out with a combined hard/soft boom design like Eleveight(first)? and then Duotone.
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fluidity
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Postby fluidity » Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:05 am
* I got told about the eleveight hybrid design back in mid 2020
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Postby irwe » Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:41 am
I am hoping the front luff handle is big enough to accomodate Winter gloves.
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galewarning
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- Local Beach: Any slowly draining lake in the Desert Southwest & Land of Detachment.
- Gear: Kite & foil kit: 15.5m Switch H2, 12m SS RPX, 7/10m RPM ('19), 8m SS UFO V2.0, 5/6[V5]/8m[V6] SS SST, SS Phantasm 633, SS Dwarfcraft 110, SS 5'4 Convert [my directional], SS 159 Glide; SS 138 Vision, 136 Nobile Split, SS 133 Luna
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Postby galewarning » Sun Apr 04, 2021 5:13 pm
Re: boom - What caught my eye is Bill's folding bridge-boom design, which seems like a clever way to support the center strut and allow for a wide variety of hand placements to control the wing, instead of fixed handles.
Re: comments about cost, availability, etc. - I think the web site went live just this week. In these Covid times, I'm sure launching a new brand is quite the challenge.
fluidity wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:59 am
Designer Bill Hansen ...Interesting that they also are coming out with a combined hard/soft boom design ....
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