Facts and Insights
1 Product informations 4
Which kite where and when, icarex colors 2024, dyneema flying lines, features.
2 Setup, flight, methods 6
Flying a zero-wind kite, setup of the kite, flight concepts, line handling.
3 Zero wind kites: culture, context 4
What's such a zero-wind kite, typologies, technical notes.
4 Articles in the press 6
About the invention of the single line zero-wind kite, articles by various authors.
5 Pictures and movies 7
Photos and videos of flights without wind, some made by customers and friends.
6 Make a kite yourself 5
Lightweight kite building materials, the famous urban-ninja-plan and variations.
7 Kites and companies 3
Advertising with ultralight high-tech kites, workshops, our clients.
Thomas Horvath has invented kite flying without wind. His 'active kites' stay in the air, because the pilot is giving the right impulses via the line. And because the kites are precise constructions made of hi-tech material.
As a designer, Horvath is looking for the perfect balance between air and kite.
Urs Honegger, Hochparterre Magazine for Design and Architecture
Product news
- In 2024, there are also some finished kites here now, ready for shipping.
- Light and slow: Leaving rome now officially available in the store.
- Reel z.125: Lighter main body with adapted minimized diameters.
- Just barely possible: LWH HCS hyperlight with the lightest dyneema sail.
- The urban ninja kite building set revamped and is Minimal Art now.
- Generous and beautiful: LWH hyperlight in dyneema composite fabric.
- LRS and LRS flow now with plugged wings in a much shorter tube.
- Reel z.124: Versatile press fit handle knob with center bore for accessories.
- New microwinder™ for enhanced line lengths of the short flying line range.
- Shorter tube and even lighter: Like a rolling stone ul now also as Hyperlight.
- Improved usability: DT honey comes now in an even more compact tube™.
- The little kite "c'est la vie, darling" is floating again, lighter than ever before.
- The long way home handling compact stradale further optimized.
- Rubber parts are now precisely cut on the lathe with a new technology.
- ibb tiny 300: ultra compact zero wind kite in production and available.
- The ultimate flow: the Hyperlight kite series made of dyneema composite.
- Video showing the Ibb-mobilé at the former Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.
- Urban ninja: the numbers. The compact version of the legendary kite.
- I'll be back urban rhythm edition: translucent Dyneema variations, seasonal.
These beautiful ultra-light weight zero wind kites from Horvath in Zurich are amazing. Built using specialized sail materials and finely manufactured carbon tubing, they fly on thermals, the same way birds do.
They represent, to me anyway, a pinnacle of kiting, both in terms of engineering and, ultimately, elegance.
Nichol Alexander, publisher, New York, USA