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Big octopus kite series#

On one occasion, at the Adelaide International, the large inflatables were up and there came a considerable increase in wind speed.

And the big kite never flew quite the same again, or so it was rumored! Later, it turned out the knots were there for a reason, in precise locations. Not being a flyer of large inflatables himself, and wishing to be helpful, El Presidente proceeded to undo them all.

Big octopus kite series#

Some years ago, the (then) president of the local kite club spotted a series of knots in the bridle of a large octopus.It all turned out OK as we cleared the fabric away and the big kite moved off without dragging anything into the air. Next thing we knew, a huge tentacle was draped over us and threatened to snag on a chair. The breeze was not the best, and many of the large kites were struggling. There we were as registered flyers, sitting on our chairs near the dunes, with kites of our own in the air behind us. Yes indeed, a literal brush with one (or was it two) of the tails of a giant Peter Lynn octopus. We had a brush with an octopus at the Adelaide International Kite festival once.It's particularly pleasing when you can get the sun right behind the Great photos of these kites when the sun and wind direction co-operate. To keep the whole creature pumped up even when the breeze strength isīeing large and slow moving, it's not hard to get Kites have a single fairly large opening right at the nose. Instead of several cells open at the front, some modern octopus

Those thousands of stitches that used to be necessary to secure the So, internal ribs are done away with, along with Bridle lines enter through the lower surface and terminate at The head tends to be oval-shaped-a 3D ellipsoid, I suppose you couldĬall it. That is, until you can get your kite away and up a bit higher over theĮven some of the biggest octopus show kites these days have a relatively simple structure. The breeze down low can beĬhaotic, as it spills over the vertical sides of the concrete structure. I've flown a kite at the Barrage myself, and it's a very That angle really made a feature of those incredible snaking tails, of Swam over the Marina Barrage in Singapore, with video shot from behind. by creating the Octopile :-) This was a display of many such kites,Īrranged close together for a great visual effect.Īnother group of enthusiasts went totally overboard and successfullyĬreated and flew a 200-foot-long design. Of enthusiasts in the USA went a step further and multiplied up the wowįactor. Realized they had a great crowd-puller on their hands!

Sizes grew larger and larger as designers In the early days, an octopus kite was basically a keelless flat