Hints and Tips
Bits of info that dont quite fit anywhere else
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Nose angles
100-110 deg. looks nice
Design by eye
What looks right invariably is right because our impression of what looks right is formed from those things which are right. Trust your instincts.
Venting distribution
Try to keep the area your vents in each half sail distributed equally between the inner and outer panels, to maintain the same turn rate as the unvented version of the kite and above and below the horizontal centre line to keep the pancake balanced.
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