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3 Blue Elephants In memory of a kite maker and friend who sadly passed away far too early. The blue elephant, a line laundry modelled on the elephant from the WDR programme ‘Die Sendung mit der Maus’ (The Show with the Mouse), was created on his sewing machine. I have recreated two of these elephants […]
How to make 5 new kites out of one I have been thinking for a long time about reducing the size of my box system, which consists of 11 individual Cody rear cells. On the one hand, because the overall size I chose in 1998 now seems a little too bulky in terms of setup
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A New Year means new hope, new light, new thoughts and new paths to the goal. I wish all visitors a good start to the year 2025. And yes, this page is finally back up and running. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, I had to make some changes to my Flickr account. Since the Flickr team
A new kite and a makeover Let’s start with the redesign: I had already made the hexagon kite with the Dortmund coat of arms a little smaller, but after the first test flights I wasn’t quite so happy with the new shape. I therefore decided on a “classic” hexagon shape and sewed the coat of
Although a little late, I would first like to wish all visitors a Happy New Year 2024. After weeks of waiting for better weather-either it was raining or it was windless and cold-there were finally days with good flying and light conditions again. So I didn’t think twice and went to a familiar location to
Rendsburg-Picavet with miniature blocks As a long-time user of a pendulum, I had long wanted to give the Picavet suspension a try. I have tried this suspension a few times, but what kept me from using a Picavet permanently was the annoying fiddling with the long cords, which always led to difficulties, especially in windy
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is often associated with harvested fields and bales of straw. Here in Dortmund, the grain harvest was repeatedly delayed by the wet weather. The straw bales also lay in the fields for a relatively long time because they simply could not be brought into the barn dry. Good for me and the opportunity to take
What was foreshadowed last year at the KAP meeting in Fanø actually happened: the lens of my Canon S110 extended only reluctantly and then unfortunately did not retract again. The error message was “lens error”. What to do? After some research on the internet, it turned out that this is a well-known problem with this
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