Ozone Little Devil

The kite comes in a smart drawstring bag with good instructions (including how to para pack a kite). Ozone boast that you can fly the Little Devil immediately as it comes with handles and flying lines attached. Also includes profoundly large and not very cool Ozone sticker.

First thing you notice in the fluorescent green and yellow lines which distinguish the top from the bottom lines and the neoperene covered handles.

Set Up:
Place bag on ground and take out handles and walk backwards. Para Packed lines come out fairly smoothly, couple of kinks soon work themselves out. No brake line loop on handles so have to hook handles over stake. Unpack kite. Leading edge is completely open, no mesh or gauze to cover it. Beach users might find that sand would get in a bit too easily but would also come out easily too!. Build quality seems excellent. Kite sits on ground leading edge up. Kite shape quite unusual bit like the top of the screen of an old television cut in half. It is quite fat and solid looking. Handles are slim and neoprene covered so feel quite comfortable if not particularly substantial.
 

Flight:
18mph wind and kite goes up with gentle tug back on top lines. Flies out stably to the edge of the window and sits there. Minimal lift at the top . Couple of experimental loops and some real power is developed, however, feels very stable and controllable. Getting in buggy is easy and kite does not suddenly do anything unexpected.

Power comes on easily and then the fun really starts. The kite does not seem to know where the edge of the wind window is, it just goes on flying and pulling, it actually feels as if you are flying directly up wind at times. Really had to work at overflying the window and it goes without saying that it retained its shape and did not luff. Down wind the kite is a monster developing smooth and constant pull. That point when the kite just sits there pulling you along seemed to happen a lot and very naturally.

The kite is very controllable and really does go where its put there is none of the heart stopping worry that you get with a Blade when the wind gets a bit unpredictable.

End of the day:
I am not sure how you para pack a kite out in the field, so ended up winding on to handles.

Conclusion:
I imagine that for racers this kite may be a bit tame and not have the flight characteristics that they need; however for recreational buggying this kite is superb; it made even an amateur like me look like I knew what I was doing and I would recommend it to anyone.

By : William James