.Joel Posted February 23, 2016 Report Posted February 23, 2016 No, that's not a mistake.... Rub your eyes a bit.... Let this sink in properly.... PKD has come back from the dead with their first ever depower kite being a closed cell race kite called the Inferno! Kite & Friends have a video of a pre-production 12M kite and like most things PKD, they don't do it often but when they do it usually looks stunning or menacing. I have a soft spot for PKD, over a decade ago they were my very first kite and they've always produced a robust, well-built kite. The profile shape, the colours, the overall appearance and presence of the kite in this video looks brilliant. Welcome back PKD, there's still some life in this dark horse yet... igeighty, jaysmith, Goz and 1 other 4 Quote
.Joel Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Posted February 23, 2016 From looking at the video it looks to be using the Ronstan Orbit Blocks on a dual-pulley system, it feeds to what looks like unsleeved bridle where in pkd fashion they've heat-shrunk over all knots. Note I don't see any LCL connectors. There's 5 air intakes, 1 dump valve. Here's some stills from the video to get a better look and idea... All credit for the images above to Kite & Friends, I've just taken some stills and cleaned them up a bit to bring out the detail. nigel and mik333 2 Quote
.Joel Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Posted February 23, 2016 More info from Kite-Power-Shop in St.Peter-Ording including photos: 8M, AR of 7.0 12M, AR of 8.0 16.5M, AR of 8.5 nigel and mik333 2 Quote
Goz Posted February 23, 2016 Report Posted February 23, 2016 What PKD have produced a new kite and it's a depower race kite and it looks cool Better wake up now this dream is getting weird That is one sweet looking kite. Still got my first 4 line power kite a PKD Buster 3m Quote
Chook Posted February 23, 2016 Report Posted February 23, 2016 That looks very impressive. Simple distinctive colours. Amazing shape too. All pluses for me. Quote
ssayre Posted February 24, 2016 Report Posted February 24, 2016 Man that's a lot of cells. Looks like a sharp leading edge for lack of a better word. Chook 1 Quote
plummet Posted February 24, 2016 Report Posted February 24, 2016 Looks like very other depower race foil. I would it they buy a chrono or sonic chop it up and loosely copy it. Quote
nigel Posted February 24, 2016 Report Posted February 24, 2016 WTF!?!?!??!?!? PKD!! Wooaaa!!! Looking good PKD. So PKD can rise from the ashes, yet Peter Lynn can't produce a kite. Quote
.Joel Posted March 14, 2016 Author Report Posted March 14, 2016 Photo from Peter Lienhard of the PKD Inferno Chook, andy666 and Goz 3 Quote
Goz Posted March 15, 2016 Report Posted March 15, 2016 Profile looks pretty thin and profile is fairly flat, not even going to try to count the cells. Quote
andy666 Posted March 15, 2016 Report Posted March 15, 2016 An aspect ratio of 8.5! Everybody loves bow ties right? Quote
m.klinge Posted March 15, 2016 Report Posted March 15, 2016 24 minutes ago, andy666 said: An aspect ratio of 8.5! Everybody loves bow ties right? I can live the rest of my life without ever missing another bow tie //M Quote
kite-and-friends Posted April 7, 2016 Report Posted April 7, 2016 Great, you like our video. I am really stunned of the kite since my first try. JensKITE-and-friends-international FacebookKITE & friends news app - directly on your smartphone Quote
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