Hung
I remember you were playing with a concept air kite as a shape
shifting flat to sled kite.
Conceptair now makes it. Its called the "smart". Have you tried it?

Stan


--- In cankitesurf@yahoogroups.com, hungvu2000@... wrote:
>
> We had this battle about sled .vs. flat long time ago.
>
> Sled more or less won due to its inherent stability and
the "mysterious"
> sled boosting effect. Read
> http://www.kitesurfingschool.org/kite.htm#Sled_Boosting for the
sled
> boosting effect.
>
> Even with flat LEI, the kiters' preference is SLE, not flat bow.
SLE
> has more stability and "sled boosting" effect while offering full
> depower (actually, it's the full depower that is important and not
the
> flatness of the kite).
>
> Do we want a flatter flat LEI? flatter than bow? We have foils
which
> are probably better and more efficient. Back to the future with
foil?
> I had this wonderfully sled/foil kite that can behave as a foil or
sled
> up to the desire of the kiter a while ago...
>
> What is next for kites?
>
> P.S., I was posting a message about bridle on the trailing edge of
flat
> LEI a while ago on these groups and it looks like someone is
seriously
> working on it. Sounds like our discussions at the various Yahoo
> kitesurf groups are always first in trend and direction (the same
thing
> happened with Flat LEI via the original discussion at
> http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/kitesurf/message/67005 )
>
> Hung
>