Single Point, Tail Free and Dancing
The Nyoman [pronounced Nee-oh-man] kite is designed for hassle free trains: The single point allows for easy stacking, and not having any tails reduces considerably the tangling risks. In a train the top kite may have a tail for cosmetic reasons.
In-sail dihedral
The Nyoman kite has no dihedral in the cross spar. Instead it has an in-sail dihedral on the rear part of the sail. This is achieved by cutting a wedge out of the front edge of rear sail part. It is this in-sail dihedral that eliminates the need of tail.
Shimmying
A third, in the air more visible feature of a train of Nyoman kites, a Nyoman Shimmy, is that the kites are dancing in the air, see video Shimmying. The wind range is 2.5 - 6 ms.
The name Nyoman is a hommage to pak Nyoman Adnyana, the Grand Seigneur of Bali kiting.
Two sizes
The Nyoman kite can be made in two sizes. The difference in size of sail area is only about 20 %, but the larger one, Nyoman Besar, needs carbon fibre rods for all spars, while the smaller one, Nyoman Kecil, can have either carbon fibre or fibreglass rods.
Nyoman Kecil is optimized for those who prefer imperial units: the spars are exactly half a yard (18”). Nyoman Besar is optimized for using 1 meter rods.
Building description
Building description for Nyoman
- Update 2021-05-14: Clarification at step 32.
- Update 2024-12-05: Corrected spine spar length.
Templates
PDF - Pages which are to be glued together with an overlap of 5 mm.
Nyoman Kecil, 6 pages
Nyoman Besar, 9 pages
JPEGs for plotting out in full scale.
 Nyoman Kecil 18" |
 Nyoman Besar |
