ITW 7ft Levitation Delta

You can't beat a Delta for a wide range of dependability. Flies well and brightens the sky and the day.

Very stable kite to fly. It will glide straight over your head then turn back. It also seems to just park it self in a place in the sky and sit for some time. A moderate wind is needed for this larger than normal kite. Many thanks to the sales person who recommended this kite at the Boulder Co. store.

It was a rough go after the first flight. But after some guidance from customer care, I was able to make repairs quick and easily and get it back up. The spars it came with were a little brittle, but 1/2'' wooden spars from any hardware store did the same job. The amount of lift the kite as a whole provides is unreal. One's easily able to attach an older, heavier action camera to it and take some rough video even in a light wind!!

Hello everyone,
After flying this kite last year at the kite festival in Berkeley and San Francisco, my kids and i are impressed, this is a very strong kite, and is able to soar in very strong California winds. We highly recommend this kite to everyone. Take Care and GOD Bless.

We fly at Ka Lae, on the Big Island of Hawaii. It's where people come to jump off the 35 ft cliff. We use it to fish offshore, and it works GREAT. We have caught good sized fish, and it has the power to pull them to the surface. The winds there vary GREATLY throughout the day. The trades have to flow around the largest mountain on the planet, so the trades are 4/5 times faster here than the rest of the island. Light winds in the morning, ramping up through the early day, gusting in the afternoon, and then slowing down again in the late afternoon, shifting to mountain winds in the night. This kite handles it all. We did drop one in the ocean once, when I wasn't paying attention, and the winds completely died before shifting 180 degrees. The Levitation righted itself in the water, turning right side up, and we managed to reel it back to shore to recover. I was really relieved. Trying to gear up for the next tuna season.

This is an update to my 8-17-11 review. Not to long after that I was out flying my new delta levitation again. I had the line looped around my cooler and it was flying beautifully at about 500 feet in light wind. I was attempting to call someone on my cell phone when I happened to look over and the cooler had overturned. I looked up in the sky and my delta was not there. I panicked! I searched the ground for the hoop and string....nothing there. I started searching the sky and spotted her way off on the horizon....descending into the Rappahannock river. That was the last I saw of my new friend as she went to her watery grave. R.I.P. I learned a valuable and expensive lesson that day about improper tethering. I was very impressed with this kite in the brief time I owned it and will replace it.

After researching kites and kite websites online for a couple of weeks or so....I decided on the ITW 7 ft delta levitation rainbow as my first serious kite. All others have been \dime store\'' kites. I definitely made a good decision. The levitation is a great flying kite....and looks awesome in the sky! It will not be my last ITW kite. I don't know what my next kite choice will be...but I do know it will be from Into The Wind. My wife's stepmother came by yesterday to see it flying....now she wants one. When she left for home she did so with my ITW catalog. Considering the Dan Leigh Little Bear or the 12 ft Riviera Highlighter as my next choice.''''''

This is a beautiful, well-made and easy-flying kite, and will take off in very little wind. I bought the Riviera, which looks fantastic, but I may get the Rainbow also, as I think seeing them both in the air together would be great. Recommended!
Jim Nicholls New Zealand

My kite was slightly out of balance. It pulled to the right. On a hunch, I pulled the leading edge spars and one was longer than the other by about 1/4 inch. I shortened the stick on my belt sander. Now, the kite flies straight. Once launched and about 100' out this kite flies great. I have had it out over 1,500', and it goes from a low angle like a box kite to past vertical. It is fun to watch it soar directly overhead alongside hawks riding the same wind.

The ITW Levitation 7-footer is a real joy to fly...The varied graphics make them look great in deep sky...embellished with line laundry, tails and such, they really are great looking Deltas dancing about in the clouds!!!!!!!!!

This delta was my first real ''kite'', and it's proven to be an excellent first choice. It's easy to fly - just attach the line and let it climb. It flies very steady and soars to an extreme angle when the wind picks up. It flies great with line landry, too. Simply a great, easy to fly delta kite.