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Stormy Weather

Posted by on February 24, 2008

It’s been raining a lot lately with high winds. Last weekend was very mild, and I had so much fun flying an Air Hogs You Build It with Evan, I decided to order the Pico Stick kit from Model Airplane Engineering. This weekend is great for flying a kite, but the high winds would just blow a plane like the Pico Stick far away. Ally and I flew the You Build It at the local park, but it just blew away with little penetration into the wind.

If you’re going to fly a kite in the wind, make sure it’s made out of a waterproof material. We were able to easily get a $1.99 thin plastic kit into the air, and it stayed up since the plastic wouldn’t absorb any water, but this other kite made out of nylon fabric became soaked and heavy with water which made it difficult and eventually impossible to get up in the air.