To tell you the truth i didnt think anyone has ever tried this but me. I just decided to see if anyone has ever flown a kite extremely high. I did it about 3 years back and plan on doing it again. I used 50 pound test fishing line and used 3 1000 ft rolls no joke. I had it so high we couldnt see it anymore only feel the tention of the string.

I have the 9ft Levitation Delta also. Great kite. Looks awesome in the sky and I get pleasing comments from people admiring it. And as you say - quite a wide wind range. I look forward to using it for KAP soon. The only thing which is a bit of a downside is the spars. There are a fair number of them and they are a bit vulnerable when I'm setting up the kite on the ground. I'm a bit reluctant about having other people close by when setting up because all it takes is one person to accidentally step on a spar and it's instantly damaged. And then I would need to order a replacement. That actually happened the very first time I used the kite. I was walking to the flying location and one of the spars slipped and fell and I walked right over it and damaged it. I admit those KAP foil kites look really tempting to me because of the complete lack of spars.

Wow. Glad I found your channel. I can learn a lot. I want to fly large kites with my grandson. Something for him to remember

Absolutely the best kite aerial photography on KZfaq. Very cool video, well produced. I’m buying an Into The Wind delta kite after watching this, and subscribed 🪁 👍🏼

I remember back in the late 1980s when I was like 8 years old me and my friends mother got a kite up somewhere between 500 and 1,000 feet high. It was so high you could barely even see it.

Lovely flying i love these type of Delta kite very easy to fly, great video Evan steel going strong.

Flying really high has always been my favorite thing to do with kites. Next time it would be cool to see some pictures from up there (or a hundred feet below so, since the camera will be lower). I've got a few KAP photos from about 500 ft, but they were before I got my rig and camera set up correctly so they weren't that sharp. Still amazing how much could be seen though.

My first Kite was a 26 ft Delta , Have loved it for twenty five years of flight ! Come to Long Beach Washington State for our fest.

That's a beautiful kite, enjoyed - thanks...

We used a 21 ft span DT delta to capture the Guinness World Record in 2014. We used 12, 400 meters of Dyneema line (40,672 ft.) to reach 16,009 ft above ground level. We will try to fly even higher with a 33% bigger kite with carbon fibre spars. Perhaps 25,000 ft is within reach. BTW, your kite is leaning to the right.

I had my large delta about that high but bringing it down wore me out as the wind had picked up.

Thanks for sharing! Very nice.

Excellent

Evan, Was it my imagination? Was your delta pulling to the right? From the drone video it looked off balanced compared to the Long Boat Key video.

I can't believe it, I'm also from long island New York, around hempstead!

Nice kite. I still haven't decided which one I want for my first KAP kite. The KAP Foil 3.0 is out of stock and this one is too. Do you think that the 7' would be strong enough for lifting just a small little action camera? I just want to dabble in KAP for now. I have a ONE R 360 camera and I've seen others using the ONE R and getting some cool shots on KAP kites. I just don't want to get a kite that's too weak.

what type of line are you using?

Amazing, learned much from this video, Many thanks!

Into the wind always makes such flappy bendy deltas. I wish they were more rigid.

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Hi Evan where did you get your line winder from, many thanks Chris uk.

I'm definitely doing this. I'm also in the tristate area. Can I do this in May and June?

Looking good kite

I have a Sutton Flowform and the same Into the Wind 9' Levitation Delta. I preffer the Delta! I use mine with a matching black and white fuzzy tail. It gives a lot more stability and it also helps to avoid bumps on the kite when the wind suddenly changes. I'd heard that some people cut the upper spreader and then they put a dihedral union between both spars but I never had any problem with mine. It is true that it's illegal to fly a kite above the 500 feets?? I recently added two drone collision lights to mine. I do not fly near an airport nor at night, but one day I saw an Airbus A320 doing a sharp evasive manuver to avoid the area were my kite was flying. I was flying at least 100' below my 500' line limit, but that event scared the hell out of me!!!

Thats awesome, can you please use kite reel? And make video of that

Great video ,love it 😊

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For a while, I was mispronouncing the name _"Levitation"_ as _"Leviathan."_ 😊😊😊

Cool i does make big double head and star type singing kite caribbean

Hi Evan just ordered my levitation what line did you put on your reel . Ps I have 4 into the wind deltas I love them chris uk.

I would like to see how to get the kite back into that small case. I can't seem to get mine that small. Thanks

I just bought this same kite... and it wants to tip forward to easily .. then in stronger wind it throws its self side to side. Does it need a tail. ,?

looking for gopro mount for single line kite ? can you help ?

What feet it is?

What camera do you attach to your Kite?

Do they still allow kites on Robert Moses. They have regulations on some beaches now, a reall bummer. I liked your video. I have the same reel. What gloves do you find work well?

Wonderful! What is your camera setup? Do you mount the camera on the chord? Is the camera remote controlled from the ground ?

Hello, awesome video. Please reply with link on where to buy this kyte. Thanks.

Any website you recommend for a good quality kites

Is 9ft the wing span

How can your kite 🪁 go so high to 1000feet ?

Is this Jones beach li?

If you don't mind, could you please tell me the type and strength of the line you use, I've been trying to find out what line to use for that size kite. Thank you.

Should I use 1000 meter (3,280 ft) kite line for a delta kite?

It would be hard to believe that a kite could hold a camera and still fly, but I watched a video of a huge kite that pulled a yacht! A camera would be as light as a feather compared to that. 🙂

What are the keel measurements i need it so i can make my own

In from Afghanistan and all my life I have flyed Afghani kites and we fight them too. Look it up if you don't no what kite fighting is . Very fun . Your kite is more heavy to the right side that's why it's not straight, it keeps going right. You can easily fix this but fighting a piece of plastic to the left side so it's even.

By my calculation, assuming (in place of the catenary) a taut line angle of 60 degrees, with 700 feet of line paid out, that makes 606 feet elevation. Which puts the kite 106 feet above the FAA maximum of 500 feet. FAA regulations further require visibility streamers attached to the line every 50 feet beginning at 150 feet elevation. Neither of which violations are anything at all to me, but I do wonder... Has anyone ever received so much as even just a sternly worded email from the FAA regarding this sort of on-line posting? I mean, here you are, providing them with video evidence and a full confession of prior intent. Not yours alone, but many similar videos made by others and posted on-line for years. It is a mildly curious thing.

Nicr

so you only went to 700' but knowingly put 1000' in the title?

Hi because I am on a budget I was wondering if nylon string with a strength of 80lbs will be a good line for a 2m wide kite😆😄

Very nice! What gloves fo you use?

Dónde consigo una de esa

9 foot Delta ? this looks to me smaller than 9 foot.

LI!

This makes no sense. He goes to the beach so he can let the kite go to 1000ft. It’s in the title. The kite doesn’t go to 1000 feet. Then he says he wants to do this so he can rewind his line tighter. But then after that he is doing a technique to make reeling the kite in easier? I’m confused. It’s like the entire point of the video was forgotten. And why not name the video “taking my kite up to 800ft” like why lie about the last 200? This is still cool, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just confusing me

3:55 u r weak bro

Yeah, but you didn't fly it up to 1,000 feet which is what I came to see. :P

Could send me a kite