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Believing that rebuilding an existing design in one's favorite colors is not much of a challenge, the kite designs of the 'De Vliegerende Hollander' are often rather different - to say the least. Mainly focusing on single-line static kites, he first designs the sail and then develops an appropriate frame of spars. Only then does he start test-flying and improving the kite. His self-made designs consist of three series - Dice Kites, Impossible Kites and Mad Hatter Kites - and a bunch of single designs.

Dice Kites
To Dice Kite IV: Dice GameThe Dice Kites started of quite harmless with a design for 4-line kite, the Dice-Game. At that time De Vliegerende Hollander was looking for an alternative 4-line design small enough to fly with some mini-handles. Based on a book about impossible drawings by Bruno Ernst (Avonturen met onmogelijke figuren, 1985), two connected hexagonal dice-forms - which the brain perceives as a three-dimensional impossibility - became the origin of this series of kites. As two or more dice can be connected in several ways, a journey of discoveries results in the following series of designs: Dice Kite I: Roll-the-Dice, Dice Kite II: Lie-Dice, Dice Kite III: Dice Rotor, and Dice Kite IV: Dice-Game.

Naar Onmogelijke Vlieger IImpossible Kites
The Impossible Kites originated from a painting with impossible placed cubes. The Impossible Kite I is the first kite design by De Vliegerende Hollander's hands. The Impossible Kite II is a simplified version of IKI.

Mad Hatter Kites
The Mad Hatter Kites ****. Two designs are now on-line, the Mad Hatter High Hat and the Mad Hatter Witch Hat.

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