Wannabee kite

The WannaBees are inspired by Nest Lernout’s kite Bee Nest. I saw the Bee Nest already at a kite festival in Washington/Sunderland in 1996 and liked it very much, but thought there was something fundamentally wrong with each bee: It had a pointed head and a round bottom whereas a real bee has a round top and the bottom, where the sting is, is the end that is pointed. I quickly made a clever design that only needed two sticks: one shorter for the body and one longer for the wings. However, it took till 2009 till I found material to actually make it: a single 200 cm piece of fibreglass rod cut into two parts was perfect for one bee: 78 cm for the body and 122 cm for the wings.

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