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It is not an original design by me, rather is it a tweak of a tweak: My friend Ron Spaulding has often been flying a white high aspect ratio diamond kite when the wind is very light. In 2018 he tweaked it to become single point, but for some reason he was not altogether happy with the result. I asked him then if I could have a go at it.
Later it emerged that the original design was by Peter Rieleit already in 2010. Ron’s previous tweaks were to split the sail halves into four panels each and changing the fringe along the trailing edge to wider pieces.
My tweak consist mainly of adding a rear in-sail dihedral, two versions of kick-up front and colours. And naming it RonBus 5-3, which is a nod to Ron and the geometrical figure rhombus. The 5-3 means it is optimized for 5 + 3 Skyshark tubes (or 32.5” arrow shafts).
RonBus 5-3 is a large (3.8 x 2.4 m) light wind kite with a wind range of 1.5 - 5 ms.
PDF - Revision 1 of the plan for RonBus 5-3.
Templates
Full size panel template for print out on wide format printer/plotter. The ZIP has four sets of templates in different layouts:- As wing side
- For efficient print out
- The four panels (A, B, C and D) one by one.
ZIP - RonBus 5-3 templatesThe file names include the measurements of the template(s).
Revision 1 (March 2026):
- Document re-structured
- Building process simplified
- Wind range increased
- Stacking added
