MEFM heading home

[KaoS]

Stumbled across an unflown MEFM that has spent its entire life hanging on a lounge room wall in the USA.

It's currently heading back Down Under...oooh!  I'm excited!!

[igeighty]

thats great mate. I have on that cooler, but I'm sure yours will be crispier

 

[KaoS]

11 hours ago, igeighty said:

thats great mate. I have on that cooler, but I'm sure yours will be crispier

 

Ooh... love the french accent

[Coogee]

Wallflower

[KaoS]

It was a good day today... 

[igeighty]

That’s beautiful. Now seeing as no one is making these anymore.... and you have a pristine specimen for reproduction. You know what I am going to ask

[igeighty]

An immaculate example of a classic deep dish kite. Thanks @KaoS for the opportunity to give this baby a new home.

[nigel]

On 9/11/2018 at 8:18 AM, igeighty said:

Now seeing as no one is making these anymore.... and you have a pristine specimen for reproduction.

Are going to make a copy Doug?

A stack MEFM's??

[igeighty]

At the moment a three stack is definitely on the cards

[Chook]

Doug can the stand offs slide though their lower spreader fittings in flight?

[igeighty]

yep, its small 2.5mm carbon tube that slides through the spreader and is kept taught by the bungy and line, not sure if this is what give them the unique flying feel, but it Is pretty neat

The black one was a shop model that was left over stock from the kite shop when it closed in 96. so I took it home for dad. he loaned it back to me last year.

the middle yellow one I got from Prawnstar and is fairly well used,, but very much flyable. and the top one came from Kevin and is pretty much brand new still. I would age them all at 1996-1998

I used to have a very early one it was grey and white, it had vented panels and was very very nice to fly in all winds. one day I will find another vented one somewhere.

I also had a microlite version it would fly in zero wind with a bit of walking. 

You can fly them at Kingston. I promise you will be hooked.

 

 

[Chook]

You did give me some time on one at Kingston in very little wind and I was amazed at how much control I still had with very little line pressure.

I just couldn't remember if the stand offs moved in flight Doug. Getting old this end matey.

Thanks.

[Tj ha]

 

Love these! Most Excellent Flying Machine

[Word Reet]

Oh Me Gosh! 🥰 The best Precision stunt kite ever made! Probably. WOOT!

I too love these Most Excellent Flying Machines! I was lucky enough to be handed the lines to one of these by an American gentleman at the world famous 😁 Blackheath Kite Festival in SE London more than 30 years back. Thank you my man, I have no recollection of your name. I was getting into precision flying, but not competitive. I was flying something I had made myself (being relatively poor) and paused to watch the MEFM. I then moved across and had a convo with it's flier, and was allowed to have a go. My Tim Benson Fizz Phantom, (acquired later) is the best stunt kite I've ever owned, but the MEFM is absolutely the best I've ever flown. Hmm, maybe that's because I hadn't flown anything expensive at the time. 😉

[Sven Dowideit]

My family have 3? Mefms, is anyone in Brisbane still flying them?

Heck, does anyone here know where the Aussie flag MEFMs Macca made are now?

 

Sven

[Ray Bordelon]

I am astounded that after so many years my kites (and Makka's) still bring joy to peoples lives.  What a fun chapter in my life.  

Most Excellent Regards,

Ray (Big Easy) Bordelon

[igeighty]

Hello Ray, welcome to the page mate and Thankyou for birthing these beauties.

Of all my kites, these MEFM give me the best time out. I don’t know how you came across the design, but you hit the nail on the head.

it is a great design, and the construction is first class /)

congratulations my friend. And thanks for bringing these wonderfull kites to life.

[Ray Bordelon]

It was my greatest pleasure. Thank you for the kind words!

Most Excellent Regards,

Ray