Very first mega-fly

I have mentioned before how the help and encouragement by Allan and Marilyn Pothecary, aka Close Encounters, was instrumental in getting us started in pair and team flying, and also hinted at the first mega-fly we flew with them. So here's the story ...

We usually fly at Stokes Bay with the other members of L-katz. Allan contacted me one day to try and arrange for the three of them (Allan and Marilyn, plus Dougie) to meet up with the five of us at Stokes Bay, and fly together in a mega-fly. Took some e-mailing back and forth to find a day we could all make, but we could pick a day, and all duly arrived on the field. Luckily, the weather turned out to be very helpful: sunny, lots of blue sky, and a wind that wasn't too light or too strong. We had already flown in a team of five, and that was already quite scary and exhilarating at the same time. Now we were going to fly with up to eight people, and so up to eight kites in the sky! Kite of choice was the Dream On, for the very simple reason that we all had one.

So we launched ...

... got into an infinity pattern ...

... careful not to crash into each other ...

... tried flying boxes right and boxes left in various configurations ...

... and really had fun in our first mega-fly, without any major crashes!

If you want to know what happened, in the air, and on the ground after we landed, here's a brief edited video, which I feel gives a good impression of our very first mega-fly:

Pictures taken by Roger. Video credits at the end of the video.