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The Incredible Creations of
Joel Scholz from Kingsland Texas has long been know for his impressive designs and whimsical sky characters. In keeping with our effort to present the best kites from Kitemasters around the globe, GKPI is pleased to offer Joel's best. Each kite is a limited edition and produced especially for you. Ichabod Crane | Pink Floyd -- the Flamingo Raptor Deltas | Triangulation | Neptune and Jaws Stunt Kites Beautiful Evil | Vampire | The Kestrel More about Joel Scholz and Sky Delight Kites |
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Ichabod Crane: Joel and Bonnie's newqest kite combines the grace and beauty of a real crane with a whimsical personality befitting it's name. It features a fully adjustable tow point, a graphite and fiberglass frame, and reinforced stress points. Due to it's capability to be tuned for specific winds, this big bird flies beautifully in breezes from 7 - 20+ mph. The sail is three quarter ounce ripstop with polyester screening for air vents. If you like unique kites this one's for you. It has a wingspan of approximately 12 feet and a hight of more than nine. $400 |
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Pink Floyd -- the Flamingo: The second of Joel's new inflatable birds, Pink Floyd is an attention-getter - extraordinare. It also features a fully adjustable tow point, a graphite and fiberglass frame, and reinforced stress points. Like it's cousin, Ichabod, it can be tuned for specific winds,and flies easily in breezes from 7 - 20+ mph. The sail is three quarter ounce ripstop with polyester screening for air vents. It glides in for landings so smoothly, if we could spring load it's legs, you'd take it for real. It has a wingspan of approximately 12 feet. $400 |
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The Raptor: The Raptor 20 is incredible in size, with a wingspan over twenty feet across. The kite is ten feet tall and has one hundred square feet of sail area. It features a fully adjustable tow point, an all graphite frame, and 3.9 ounce reinforced edges. |
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This giant flies beautifully in winds from 7 - 15 mph. The sail is ounce & a half ripstop for extra durability. If you like big, lifting kites this one has what you need. Recommended for the experienced flier. $600. Also available is the Raptor 8 -- the same outstanding design in a smaller eight foot scale. The Raptor 8 has a composite graphite/fiberglass frame in a 3/4 ounce spinnaker ripstop sail, with 3.9 ounce reinforced edges. Built to last, it will offer consistent high angle and stable flights. $120. |
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Triangulation: This high angle flyer is an A.K.A. Award winning design that fills the sky with 75 Square Feet of color. It's combination cellular-delta construction blends stability with the aerodynamic efficiency of a high aspect ratio wing, which is enhanced by the slot wing effect. Each Triangulation is built to order, hand signed and numbered. Thirteen feet wide, five feet high and three feet deep. $400. |
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Neptune 2 and Jaws: These ever popular sport kites set the standard for originality. An increased wing camber results in a kite that will fly in winds as low as 3 MPH, yet can comfortably handle 25 MPH. Whether you are flying precision or looking for a kite that will stall or axel with ease, you can't go wrong. |
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The adjustable outhauls will allow fine tuning for even the most discriminating flyer. Flown by many notable teams, these kites are real crowd pleasers for their animated graphics and performance. $159. |
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Beautiful Evil: The ultimate quad-line. This show stopper comes equipped with custom six wrap rods and hot cut Icarex sail. Ten by five feet, including the tail. |
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Beautiful Evil, does it all and then some. Easy to fly in a large wind range this is a signed and numbered limited edition. The prototype version was the A.K.A. First Place winner in the Multi-Line competition in 1993. The gargoyale looks as striking hanging in a window as it does in the sky. Stable yet responsive, this kite makes quad-line flying easy. It will fly backwards, forwards, sideways, or stop and spin like a propeller, all at the flick of a wrist. $600 |
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Vampire: This colorful quad-line is based on the Beautiful Evil. It's smaller, 9 foot wingspan makes for a faster, more responsive flight. Easy enough for the beginner to fly, it also exhibits performance demanded by competition flyers. $250 |
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Kestrel: The Kestrel exhibits the absract beauty of a bird in flight. Designed with the team flier in mind, they are proven winners for their graceful, yet precise flight characteristics. |
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Flown by "The Aviators" of Canada and by Ray Bethell, world renowned innovative kite flier in his record breaking 12 hour continous flight of three kites in winds as low as 1 MPH. The Kestrel not only has proven flight characteristics, but durability as well. Ray's record was flown with 3 Kestrels which had already logged over 1200 hours of flight time. $169. |
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More about Joel Scholz and Sky Delight Kites: For the past 14 years, Sky Delight Kites has been producing the finest quality, most innovative designs in the industry. Each Sky Delight Kite is an original design by world renown kite artist, Joel Scholz. He has been described in American Kite Magazine as "One of America's best kite designers", and in Kitelines Magazine as "On the forefront of the next generation of kite makers". Joel's kites have won many awards, set world records, and hang in museums through out the world. |
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