October 25, 2016

Collection Name: Stormy Weathers Collection

Collection Number: 3682

Post Type: History

This item was entered by Matthew Sutton. They assume full responsibility for all content.

Artist or Author: Stormy Weathers,,

Creation Year: 1994

Length: 0.00

Height: 74.00

Width: 76.00

Summay:

Diamond Victory style red kite.

Weathers was convinced that the diamond kite was a rotten kite, but seeing an eight-foot Eddy at a festival piqued his interest. Research convinced him to the old two-stick diamond-shaped Hi Flyers (which in his boyhood years he could but for 15 cents) could be more reliable than a small Eddy and he began to work on developing a diamond that could fly without a tail and launch itself from the ground. Here are some of his prototypes

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