Here are some photos of how my LE tube seams and the canope seams didn't line up with each other. The kite shape is made from a number of flat panels that when sewn together give the kite its shape.

This kite was split into 16, 8 on each side. The 16 canope panels should exactly match the 16 sections of the LE tube. For some reason mine did not.

This is the second seam in from the tip. You can also see the rib which I attached mid way between the seam on the canope and the seam on the LE tube ....

This is the fifth seam in from the tip. As you can see, they are waa-aa-ay out. The LE tube has an error of approx 4cm at the very tip. So this can't be due to my sewing, it must have been a mistake during the plan printing stage....

A close up of the 5th seam.

But the LE tube is almost *exactly* the same length as the canope leading edge....

Weird....

<some time later...>

I had chance to really think back and try to figure out why this would have happened, and I realised that when I printed out the canope plans from SurfPlan the plans for the inflatable ribs hadn't been implemented into the software yet. So there was a definate upgrade of the software before I printed the plans for the LE tube and ribs.

So I guess during that step something went wrong - hehe!

Note:

If I were to build another inflatable kite I would sew the rib seam into the corresponding LE seam.

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