Date:	Tue, 12 Sep 1995 00:48:04 -1000
From:	john.mitchell@multinet.de (john)
Message-Id: <199509121048.AA20290@BlackBird.MultiNET.DE>
Organization: Harvard University Office of Information Technology
Subject: Re: 7.5' rev knock-off's

Jeff,
>  
> >No wonder most of the Rev-style kite 
> >builders hit on the 1.5 style kite before Rev did. 
> 
> I don't understand this comment.  Are you referring to folks knocking off
> the Rev in a 7.5' size?  I know of very few people who have done this, and
> those who have seem to have done so for indoor usage.  I'd be curious to
> find out how many of the folks who have built 7.5' rev knock-off's have
> scaled down the I, how many scaled up the II, and how many just guessed.
> 
I am one of the ones who built one. I built my one and only in the summer of
93. I took all the dimensions of the I and subtracted all the dimensions of the
II divided the sum by 2 and added the sum to all the dimensions of the II.
e.g. 100-66/2+66=83
I called this a Revolution 83 for 83 
What I was after was a progressive train, II-83-I. It flew very well, even in
a hover, where most trains dance all over.
Alone it was also very nice to fly. I never got around to building another
one.

I should have had a 1.5 a long time ago for testing from Revolution via
DRACHENmagazin but it still has not arrived. It seems Revolution doesn't 
have any available for testing yet.

Over-the-Rainbow,
John Mitchell
Munich


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