Pan Flute Kite Plan
Pan Flute Kite Plan .... Addendum
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:22:26 +1000 (EST)
From: Anthony Thyssen (anthony@cit.gu.edu.au)
Subject: Re: Pan Flute
Re: Changing bridle point or adding keels to increase flying angle.
I made a small hole above the seem with a hot soldering iron 1 cm from
the top. but don't know how it flies, angle wise. The pockets however
still open out ok.
A side keel may work out ok. though where to put the bridle point is
another matter, I would not put it much more than 20 cm down the kite
length though, with prehaps a 45/60 degree angle from the top edge.
If you try it let me know.
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:18:15 +1000 (EST)
From: Anthony Thyssen (anthony@cit.gu.edu.au)
Subject: Re: pan flute
The following is Cc'ed to Buck Childers the author of the Pan Flute Web
plan so that he may include my answer as part of the WWW plan.
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Patrick Mann wrote...
| I'm now building the pan flute kite. It looks pretty
| straightforward, but sewing together 4 pieces at a
| time seems a bit tricky. How did you manage to keep
| them properly aligned?
|
| The weather here is awful for kiting at the moment;
| I bet it's nicer down under - lucky you.
|
Weather is very nice here, tough with christmas comming it is now
getting too hot :-)
Christmas in Australia -- Icecream, Barbeques, the beach and swimming
:-)
My own pan flute used a horrible soft ripstop but turned out great.
If I do it again however I would probably also add a triangle to the
final cell to try to move the bridle point down about 5 cm. but it flys
great (if not a high as the plan suggests)
To align all the pieces and sew the seams you basically have to carfully
pin the four pieces together all the way down the seam so that you can
sew it without needing to remove the pins. Check that all piece was sewn
through afterward.
I generally pin the two top pannels together (outside side to outside
side) and the two bottom panels together (ditto) then pin all four
together removing the top and bottom panel pins afterward.
What got me was that after heming (which can be done before seperating
the pieces (length wise) only 8 major seams are required for the kite
and none really difficult with a bit of patiance and lots of pins.
I finished my kite after to nights work, in front of the TV.
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Sewing Hint...
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/__\/__\/__\/__\/__\/__\/__\
A B C D E F G H
First sew the two outer most cells together A & H, as they will lie flat
at this point (no other pannels rolled inside the cell. You can also
include the small attachment tags easly into the seam while you are at
it. This is a good idea regardless of the order you sew the other
seams.
Alturnaive Seam Order 1..
Now sew the four panels for seams C and F, now while again they also
can lie flat, without haveing to roll the kite into the cell. Watch
which side the outer heming will be when the pieces are folded out to their
correct positions.
Now follow the plan again to do the rest of the seams from the middle
outward. rolling the extra pannels inside the cell to sew the seam, and
turning the cell back right side out, after sewing. Seam Order D, E, B, G.
Alturnative Seam Order 2..
Another order to do the sewing is from outside in. A and H as above
the B, G and C, F and then to the A-C group of pieces do Seam D.
All these seams are easy to do at this point as no peices need to be
rolled into a cell, unlike the inside out method.
Seam E of course is the tricy one as you have to roll both sets of
pannels (the whole kite) into the middle cell you are closing off.
5mm ,------.
`=<==FH AD<
/ `------'
Seam E to be sewn closed
NOTE: The Middle cell is turned inside out with ALL the panels of the
kite rolled up in two groups inside the cell being sewn closed.
Basically this will then be the ONLY time you have to roll the whole
kite together using this method. and the most difficult part of all
methods, the final seam.
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Of the above two methods I would probably do the second next time round,
instead of the middle outward order given in the plan.
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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