"This new design forces the viewer to reflect on their own feelings towards the original Pride flag and its meaning, as well as the differing opinions on who that flag really represents, while also bringing into clear focus the current needs within our community".

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Do you have any aeromodelling skills? Have a go at making a little balsa box kite; it should work fine, particularly if you carve a bit of an airfoil section into the sails! More than just decreasing drag, this would also increase the lifting force of the sails.

I have actually managed to go one step further with my 1-Skewer Box design. There is only one pair of cross sticks, with a strategically placed internal tensioning line keeping the kite rigid. There it is, in the closeup inflight photo.

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Regarding the towing point, this should be located on one spar, about midway along the upper cell. A simple two-celled box kite of almost any size seems to only require this single attachment point in order to fly stable. Perhaps a tail would be required, in the case of very small box kites.

In the case of foam slabs breaking, that would mean trimming down the dimensions a little to achieve greater stiffness—leaving the thickness the same of course.

Baker's flag was embraced internationally as the symbol of the LGBTQ community and inspired many designers and activists to create subsequent flags for more specific identities, such as the light blue, white and pink transgender flag, created by Monica Helms in 1999.

The first photo down there shows the kite frame, around which the upper and lower cells are wrapped. This contrasts with the more conventional approach of attaching the spars to the sail material first, closing the cells, and then applying tension by inserting cross sticks. Both approaches work well for those who prefer them!

As with building box kites the conventional way, the short pieces should be positioned to the center of the cells, along the main spars. (Yes, I know my Moderate Wind Dowel design has its cross sticks near the trailing edges. In lighter winds you can get away with that.)

The Progress flag was an immediate success. On 6 June 2018, Quasar posted the design on social media and woke up the following day to find it had gone viral. A Kickstarter campaign was launched to respond to the dozens of requests for merchandising. Through 508 backers, Quasar raised $25,802. The design was featured in publications such as Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ by Andy Campbell and in articles by Forbes, BBC and Dezeen. It was widely adopted by the LGBTQ community and was carried at numerous Pride events and raised to the top of the Seattle Space Needle for Pride 2020. It also appeared on US TV in RuPaul's Drag Race in January 2021.

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I explored this idea some years ago, using bamboo skewers for spars. Small slabs of packing foam can be glued together to form the upper and lower cells, before gluing the skewers into the inside corners. At this size, the kite was rather inefficient and heavy. But it flew!

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Apparently a press-fit can work, if everything is cut accurately enough. I would prefer to glue all those joins though, since the kite will be flying in strong wind. The frame will be under considerable stress.

And how about building box kites with balsa wood panels? In theory, balsa wood could be used in a similar way to the foam-slabs idea.Do you have any aeromodelling skills? Have a go at making a little balsa box kite; it should work fine, particularly if you carve a bit of an airfoil section into the sails! More than just decreasing drag, this would also increase the lifting force of the sails.Try this using thick slabs of the lightest balsa to get some rigidity. Perhaps try a harder grade of balsa for the main spars. This way, they can be thinner and hence have lower drag to increase the efficiency of the kite. Balsa wood would be ideal for building box kites in tiny sizes. Ones that would use ordinary sewing thread for flying line, perhaps! Also, these days it's easy to get hold of polyester sewing thread in supermarkets. That's similar to Dacron, the single-line-kite flyer's favorite.

And how about building box kites with balsa wood panels? In theory, balsa wood could be used in a similar way to the foam-slabs idea.

'Progress' is a reinterpretation of multiple iterations of the pride flag. The original 'rainbow flag' was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 to celebrate members of the gay and lesbian political movement. It comprised eight coloured stripes stacked on top of each other to evoke a rainbow, a symbol of hope. Baker assigned a specific meaning to each colour: pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for magic, indigo for serenity and violet for spirit. A year later the pink and turquoise stripes were dropped owing to a shortage of pink fabric at the time and legibility concerns, resulting in the six-colour rainbow flag most commonly used in the first decades of the 21st century.

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Foam slabs would lend themselves to building box kites with rectangular cells rather than square. You would then need to fly the kite flat rather than on one edge. This would require a four-leg bridle.

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Quasar plays with the idea of a diverse community, and states that the fight for inclusivity needs to come from both within and outside the LGBTQ community – from all spheres of society:

It is relatively simple. Also, it minimizes the total weight of the kite, for any given combination of spar and sail material. Light kites are good kites, for any proven configuration.

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However, what does that matter in ... "box kite weather"? That is, a good stiff breeze! You will still end up with a perfectly airworthy kite for those windier days. Or maybe it'll be for when a solid trade wind is coming off the ocean.

Worried about the "airfoil shaping" idea for the foam slabs? It's not strictly necessary, but it would still be helpful to at least round off the leading and trailing edges of both cells. This will definitely cut down the drag forces a little and hence help the kite to be more efficient.

The nice thing about thick slabs of foam is that they lend themselves to shaping. I carved the edges of the slabs to create a crude airfoil section, like a plane's wing.

Perhaps you haven't thought about it much, but building box kites successfully does not necessarily mean using two sets of cross sticks to tension the sail! That time-honored technique is very good design for a couple of reasons.

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Today, the pride number of flags is considerable and illustrates the many identities that fall under the umbrella of the LGBTQ community. Because some subgroups are more visible than others, recent pride flag redesign projects have sought to increase the representation of discriminated minority identities within the community. In 2017, Philadelphia City Hall in the United States revealed a pride flag including black and brown stripes to highlight the discrimination of black and brown members of the community. A year later, the US city Seattle added five new colours to the rainbow flag: black and brown to represent people of colour, and pink, light blue and white to represent trans, gender non-binary, intersex and those across the gender spectrum.

From one flag reboot to another, the coloured stripes are imbued with different meanings. For Quasar, the light blue, pink and white stripes represent trans and non-binary individuals and the brown and black ones represent marginalised People of Colour (POC) communities. The black stripe has a double meaning as it is also intended for "those living with AIDS and the stigma and prejudice surrounding them, and those who have been lost to the disease".

I would recommend a slightly larger gap between the upper and lower cells of the kite than the distance from the leading edge to the trailing edge of each sail panel. This is for the sake of stability.

"The arrow points to the right to show forward movement […] and illustrates that progress [towards inclusivity] still needs to be made".

For the best chance of success, I would go for dowel and slabs that appear a bit thin or weak for the job. If anything breaks in flight, just try again with a slightly stronger design (see below). Otherwise, it's just too easy to build something that won't fly in anything but a gale or category 5 storm, due to sheer weight ;-)

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But if you really want your box kite to be a little different, why not try one of the two methods outlined below. It so happens that both of these approaches will result in a slightly heavier kite for its size than a traditional approach would generate.

Detractors of the Philadelphia and Seattle pride flags have criticised their legibility, explaining that stacking colours linked to identity on top of the original colours assigned to values confuses and lessens the community's message. Quasar resolved this design issue by placing the black, brown, light blue, pink and white stripes in the shape of an arrow, on the left of the Progress Pride flag. This solution not only sought to improve the flag's legibility, but also placed discriminated minorities at the forefront.

Balsa wood would be ideal for building box kites in tiny sizes. Ones that would use ordinary sewing thread for flying line, perhaps! Also, these days it's easy to get hold of polyester sewing thread in supermarkets. That's similar to Dacron, the single-line-kite flyer's favorite.

OK, I hear you say "we don't often get gale-force winds around here." Not to worry—just build something bigger and look around for foam slabs that are relatively thin compared to their other dimensions. Use wood dowel for the spars.

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Try this using thick slabs of the lightest balsa to get some rigidity. Perhaps try a harder grade of balsa for the main spars. This way, they can be thinner and hence have lower drag to increase the efficiency of the kite.

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Notice the four short sticks near each end of the frame and how they are secured with small accurately-cut wood blocks. The second photo gives a closeup view of such a block. Obviously, you need a woodworking aid such as a table saw to do this quickly and accurately. But if you can organize that, it's a solid approach to building box kites.

This gave it more lifting force and I'm sure it contributed to the successful flight in the gusty fresh wind down at the park. Actually, it was more like gale force near the end of the flying session!

The Progress Pride flag was developed in 2018 by non-binary American artist and designer Daniel Quasar (who uses xe/xyr pronouns). Based on the iconic rainbow flag from 1978, the redesign celebrates the diversity of the LGBTQ community and calls for a more inclusive society. In 2020, the V&A acquired a bespoke applique version of the Progress Pride flag that can be seen on display in the Design 1900 – Now gallery.

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The foam slabs were so solid that the skewer tips didn't need to go all the way to the nose and tail of the kite. Ordinary woodworking glue was used to secure the bamboo to the foam. The foam slabs were just butt-joined to each other and secured with the same wood glue. The dimensions were arranged so the whole thing was square and hence could fly on one edge like a traditional box design.

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Subsequently released under a Creative Commons licence (allowing others to copy, distribute and make use of their work non-commercially), the Progress Pride flag has become a blueprint design used by identities underrepresented within the LGBTQ community. For London Pride 2019, a double-hoisted Progress flag, including the colours of the Bi-Pride flag was flown in front of City Hall. And in 2021, Valentino Vecchietti created the Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag. To respond to numerous requests of redesigns accommodating other identities, Quasar even developed merchandising in which the flag's arrow and background are interchangeable. This initiative shows that even the design of the flag is always a work in 'Progress'.

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Progress Pride flag, designed by Daniel Quasar, USA, 2018, manufactured by Art Schaller for Custom Flag Company Inc., Westminster, CO, USA, 2020. Museum no. CD.14-2020. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Unbraced with cross sticks perhaps, but it's still rigid. A visitor to this site submitted this idea, with photos, and has proven the concept in stiff winds. Thanks Jack!