Blue Spot 1 Gallery

Please note that these photos were taken by a professional photographer using high-tech equipment. Any resemblance to the blurred, smeary, underexposed shots your mum used to take with a box brownie are purely coincidental. Sam assures me it was 'old film'. Yeah, right

Here we see it from a ways away, showing the flat bridling, but nothing else due to the distance.

Similarly from the rear. Note the 'step' caused by 2-line controlling a foil with a non-crossed bridle. You can see the blue spot here, too. Just about. If you turn the brightness up. I like a photographer.

Retying knots, for the umpteenth time. A year on, I'm still doing it.

Fully powered up across the window, it's a beast. I took off several microseconds after this shot was taken. From this photo it can be seen that although the (way too) many ribs keep the surface pretty smooth, each group of 3 cells bulge outwards. Dribs would help this.

Here we see it struggling to inflate. Much 'pumping' required. Proper liftoff technique involves letting it try to inflate on the ground, then a quick tug and 'pump' it up through the window, hoping it doesn't fully inflate till the top. If it does, you fly.

The aformentioned bridling tags. Very neat. Thanks, Harry.