Four Rokkakus 1992
Photo Blackheath 10th July 2022
Four Rokkakus 1992
Size: each 195 x 168 cm
Windspeed too much wind for stack 11mph Blackheath 09/10/2022.
Windspeed for stack 7mph Blackheath 21/08/2022.
Windspeed for stack 9mph Portsmouth 30/07/2022.
Windspeed for stack 3mph Blackheath 10/07/2022.
Four Rokkakus 1992
Size: each 195 x 168 cm
Windspeed too much wind for stack 11mph Blackheath 09/10/2022.
Windspeed for stack 7mph Blackheath 21/08/2022.
Windspeed for stack 9mph Portsmouth 30/07/2022.
Windspeed for stack 3mph Blackheath 10/07/2022.
The Rok and Rev Tour 1992
Starting in Denver, Colorado and ending in Lubbock, Texas with JMH.
This was an experiment in flying JMH kites alongside the Revs with his graphic design.
Photo Denver
Starting in Denver, Colorado and ending in Lubbock, Texas with JMH.
This was an experiment in flying JMH kites alongside the Revs with his graphic design.
Photo Denver
In 2016 two of the kites were re-framed and bridled by Paul Morgan.
The Red sail was missing. (Dark Blue one was located as at 25/04/2020)
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The Red sail was missing. (Dark Blue one was located as at 25/04/2020)
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The Dark Blue sail arrived as at 10/08/2021 and needed re-bridling and re-sparing. A set of spiral wound carbon rods was prepared for all four sails.
Three point bridle, top and bottom, set ready for field adjustments on the Dark Blue kite. 14/08/2021.
The red sail was re-made, framed and bridled as at 28th March 2022.
Cervia 2025, Decorators Not Zens with Jørgen Møller Hansen Roks 28th April
In 1992 Jørgen did a second design for the Revolution kite and also designed and made a set of four rokkaku kites. A trip to Denver and the AKA meeting at Lubbock followed but the team did not really get to fly the Revs and Roks together.
The framing and bridling of the roks has been modified over the last couple of years and the roks have been stacked however this flight at Cervia 2025 was probably the first time the kites have been flown singly together.
Longer lines may be needed to realise this project as in this session Rev fliers kept on flying too high and seeing their kites fall out of the sky!
The Not Zens were fabricated in 2022 based on the 1992 graphic.
The Not Zens were fabricated in 2022 based on the 1992 graphic.
The format obviously needs multiple fliers with good control and an understanding of the 'abstract' flying concept.
The occasional apparent 'organised' arrangement of kites is an accident really!
The occasional apparent 'organised' arrangement of kites is an accident really!
The fliers on this occasion were... (to follow)
Cervia 20th April - 1st May 2024
Following on from 2022 another attempted flight of the stacked 1992 Rokkaku sails and the 1992 Rev design in Not Zen format by Jørgen Møller Hansen.
It was a short flight as the windspeed was not quite sufficient to keep the stack in the air.
Thanks to Marion Linford for these images of the re-fabricated Jørgen Møller Hansen Rokkaku from 1992.
Some more configuration changes on a shorter anchored flying line, this time without the pilot kite.
Some more work to do finding a quick setting solution for the last kite in the train.
Some more work to do finding a quick setting solution for the last kite in the train.
Images thanks to Marian Linford.
Thanks to Lex Kraaijeveld for these four images from Saturday 30th July.
For the first session, the smaller Parafoil was launched followed by the Rokkaku stack. The large 1991 Parafoil was then launched and as the Rokkaku Stack was perfectly stable this group of images were captured.
Jørgen Møller Hansen banners and preparation of the four rokkaku sails in the 1992 graphic. The bow sliders needed to be fixed as the line has been polished and the aluminium sliders have lost their gripping edge.
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