Hand-made delta kites by Dan & Bev Leigh

• Kite catalog
• Payment methods
• Delivery charges

About these delta kites

• Overview
• What are delta kites?
• Design features
• Nose Angle vs. Sweep
• Construction details

How to choose deltas

• Choosing deltas
• Kites grouped by type
• Kites grouped by wind range

Flying deltas

• General kite control and over-flying
• Flying delta kites
• Tips for light wind flying including the "long launch" with a video (you may have to scroll about 5 pictures to the right)
• Kite flying for relaxation

  Stress relief

  Health and safety

• Reels, winders & spools
• Knots (& swivels)

Falconers section

• Main page: How it's being done

  Kites for falconers

  Line and accessories

• Running snap away linkages
• Home-made releases
• Easy on/easy off Knotless Hangers

• Winders for falconers - electric fence reels

• Bird-pest control

Articles contributed by falconers

• To Kite or Not to Kite? by Gerry Plant
• Conditioning Peregrines as High-Flying Gamehawks by Gerry Plant
• Technical Aspects of Kiting for Falconry by Gerry Plant
• Kite training of falcons

  An overview by Dave Scarbrough

• Getting Started with the Kite by William Murphy
• David Scarbrough's web page (14 Sept. 1997 version)
• Updated kite training article from "The Austringer" issue 30, 1998
• Lure your Falcon "Up"

  Article by Roger James

• An interview with Dave Scarbrough

  From the journal of the Drachen Foundation

• User report by Matt Gage

Wing types, towing points, and different fin designs

• Understanding delta wing types
• Towing points and equivalent towing points
• Brief look at different delta fins

Other things to do with deltas

• Kite aerial photography
• Experiment with custom frames and other things (lift gigantic loads & send weird lights in the night sky)
• Custom Trooper spreaders
• Kite trains
• Single line altitude record attempts

The evolution of my delta designs from the beginning at the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, London

• The Round Pond circa 1970 (from an old newspaper clipping)
• Bob Weil's interview with Alick Pearson from the European Kiteflier, spring 1978
• More Round Pond bird kites
• How I got started in kites
• The history of the delta kite
• The delta concept
• From layout to test flight
• Big deltas
• Flight tests - past, present and future
• Special designs & design dead ends

  Deltas with battens

  Experimental kites and discontinued designs

Making a Dan Leigh standard delta

• Rough guide

  Delta hybrid: tunnel keel delta

Links and references

• Knots (& swivels)
• Links and references
• Wind speed tables
• A note on my use of wood

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