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This page is for some color pictures of LASER Stunt Kites that used to be popular in the late 80's and early 90's.
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This page is still very much a work in progress. Pistures will be added as we find them. There were many more custom sails done than are pictured here so far.
LASER Stunt Kites are old delta stunt kite technology. They have flat sails (no camber), filament wound epoxy tubing frames, and no standoffs. If they had cambered sails, lighter frames, standoffs, and were larger overall, they would be able to fly some of the 'tricks' so in vogue these days. But that isn't what they were designed for. They were designed to fly fast in lots of wind. They do that well.
The two models that were sold in stores were the Chevron and the Ten Panel.
This is a typical Chevron:
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We frequently made alternating panel kites to put into pairs.
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This is a typical Ten Panel:
From the very beginning, the sails were made in many different patterns. Perhaps too many different pattersn. All the sails were flat, with no camber, so designs were no problem. Many designs were made that were very labor intensive. When it came time to make kites for stores, only the sail patterns that were economically feasible to make in big numbers were released to stores and catalogs. Many more sail patterns were made.
Below are a few that were available directly from LASER Stunt Kite thru the LASER Catalog & Coloring Book.
When looking at these, keep in mind that all panels and mmost of the pattterns were done with flat fell seams.In other words, this is not traditional applique.All straight lines are flat fell seams. The kites in most cases were made in two halves and joined.
LASER Sunset .Click on image for larger picture.
I have to do this. The next picture is from Page 13 of 'The Stunt Kite Book', by Alison Fujino and Benjamin Ruhe. Published in 1989 by Running Press in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ISBN 0-89471-697-2
When the caption is read, it is soon realized that the kite is neither one. Neither a Big-Wing, nor a Spin-Off. It is one of my Sunset LASER's when it was staked out at the AKA Convention in Chicago in 1988. Gotta love it. Ever wonder why Top of the Line started making Sunset Spin-Off's?
We made a Sunrise, too.
The next is a standard Nova to which was added two lightning bolts.
Next are some Quasar's.
This is a Six Pack of Arrow LASER's.
Here is a Split Eight. It looks a lot less like a Spider than the black & white line drawing.
This is a Wedge. In the early days we had a problem with the panels separating near the trailing ege. We cured it by imbedding strips of 3.5 ounce dacron in the trailing edge hem.
The last kite drawing in the Coloring Book was a blank Design Your Own.
Some people did great things with plain sail kites.
Everything from here on is strictly custom, one of a kind, only one each were ever done.
Well, there was this 6 pak of Texas Flag kites ....
This is Wayne Davidson's 8-LASER Thunder Stack.
Sunburst LASER:
A close look at the picture will show that it is a 4 color kite.
Red, Orange, Yellow, and Black.
This Fireball LASER will never be made again ...
This 'Super' Nova was made for Richard Boisvert.
