Single-Line High-Altitude StratoHawk Stunt Bird Kite

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Take the 84 inch curved wing (5 foot tip-to-tip Wingspan AND 8+ Square Foot Lifting Surface Area!) kite out of the box, unfold it (and preferably keep Unfolded, in its flying shape...It fits into ANY Car!)... After it "snaps" into shape, gently bend down the entire front flap a little bit, so the entire flap is just over a 90 degree angle as to the face of the kite... THAT'S IT FOLKS... Attach a thousand feet (to be on the safe side, although this kite will go Thousands of feet altitude) of single line (of appropriate strength, as per wind speed) to the central line-loop, and yank it up to God knows What altitude, in 15 to 20 mph surface winds...Note that this is an EXTREMELY RUGGED KITE, so that you will be concerned more about excessive Pull on the line, as opposed to whether the kite can handle the wind/gusts. The ONLY adjustment you may want to make is to level-out the flight path or not, by bending down the flap (not the Wing-Tip) slightly more on the side of the wing that is flying too High...I use a big orange extention-cord winder (from Walmart or your local True-Value Hardware Store for less than $10)...Grab some brisk gusty winds, and you've got yourself a show of a lifetime...All on a single line!

Also, when using the single line kite as a constant High-Climber you want to curl up the wingtips (at the upper-rear of right and left sides of Wing)...

If you want the kite to Dive (and Recover via tugging the line) in brisk winds, Then you want the Wingtips to be Flat, and Not curled Up... 

Note that in the last video, you can let out the desired length of line, ahead of time, then yank it up to its appropriate height (with very little wing-flap), and when it reaches its altitude it does whatever little dance until you wind it in, as indicated in this second video (although I was not interested in doing the wing-flapping stunt-kite routine, when I originally made this video...If the kite had a high altitude, I believe you could have a real show, by tugging on the line, at different points in the little dives it makes, when you have the Wing-Tips flat and Not curled up).