Final flight of tetrahedral kites

The tetrahedral kites were a complete success.  Each student built one small one, then we combined them to make 4 medium sized ones, then combined the medium sized ones to make one big one.  The small and the medium kites flew great.  Unfortunately the big one did not take flight.  I am sure the only reason it did not fly was because we had flown the small medium sized ones quite a bit before contstructing the big one, so each one had a slight bit of damage to it.   But overall a great project for the spring!



Above the kids are flying the small and medium kites, they flew great!
Middle we combined 16 small kites (4 medium kites) to make the big kite.
Below is the attempt to fly the big kite.