Our regular field was being cleared of firework debris and crowd barriers so Martin had set up to the east of the road.

Zens with green race again and a south westerly breeze meant that we were not looking into the sun today.

Clear blue sky above to start but a bank of low cloud loomed from the west.  I had hoped to test fly the two Eddy kites in ‘sunny’ conditions and  that almost happened.  The first one that I put up seemed fine at first but then it became apparent that it did have a slight bias to the right.  The second one had a very similar bias so that will be ‘fun’ to sort out.  Reminds me of ‘fighter kite days’! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hne6cSgn0uo Eddys on Blackheath today

We attached one Eddy to two sections of the JMH Rhombus-shaped kites 1985 train and while the train did remain stable the Eddy kite did not quite have the buoyancy that I had hoped for.  I’ll try it with the 145cm Malinsky Eddy pilot at some point and see if that works better.  Meanwhile the second new Eddy will be inserted in the fifth position in the green set of the Malinski train.

I have done the base drawing on the Hexagonal pilot kite sail for the Malinski train and may have this kite ready to test fly next weekend.  I found an article and drawings on a Dutch website relating to this project via Vlieger Magazin:- https://www.kiteplans.org/planos/trein/trein.html

Felix