Description
F-ONE have always pushed boundaries to make your experience on the water as memorable as possible. The F-ONE PLUME is their latest innovation, the perfect hybrid of a kite and a wing. It’s crafted to provide unmatched freefly abilities and downwind sensations.
- Downwind and freefly weapon
- Incredibly easy to use
- Fantastic upwind angle, similar of a win
- Exceptional stability in the air
- Unique glide sensation with a great forward pull
- Wide range of use
- Reinforced safety and easy set-up
Available in: 3.0, 3.5, 4.2, 5.0 m²
COMPACT & LIGHTWEIGHT
The F-ONE PLUME marks the beginning of a new discipline, K-WING, an entirely new way of riding upwind to take full advantage of the swell. The first of it’s kind for this sport, it combines a minimalistic design with optimized lightness, exceptional stability and pure glide, offering an unrivalled freefly and downwind experience.
Light as a feather, the PLUME is F-ONE’s most freeing creation yet. The glide of a kite, combined with the comfort and practicality of a wing you can hold at arm’s length, creates a new, revolutionary riding sensation.
With a small leading edge, no central strut and a sleek C-shape profile, the PLUME is effortless to handle and easy to forget about when freeflying. Benefitting from a wide range of use, this K-Wing ensures stability, comfort, and an upwind angle on par with a wing, giving you maximum downwind time.
Gliding feels effortless, as the PLUME pulls you forward without straining your arms. Its super light construction and superior upwind capability make it a favorite for deflaters. The minimal bridle system makes setup simple and safe, even offshore. Finally, the PLUME’s tiny leading edge can be deflated in the air and re-inflated at sea with a mini pump.
Compact and lightweight, the F-ONE PLUME is the perfect companion to make the most of the swell.
DESIGN FEATURES
Sail engineering is the science of controlling the design and its behaviour while flying. These features are created with one goal in mind: Mastering the kite’s loads to maintain the desired shape for the longest time.
1 – WARP TENSION LINE
Woven fabrics feature a longitudinal 0° yarn (Warp) and a transversal 90° yarn (Weft). Therefore, a fabric has great elongation resistance and strength capacities if you apply tension at 0° or 90° along the yarns. But it will deform and stretch when tension is applied at, let’s say, 45°.
2 – LOAD CONTROL PANELING
When engineering the load control paneling, we make sure that fabrics panels are warp/weft oriented, meaning that the load path runs through the yarns. Fabric and seams are then in the best position to receive tensions and maintain the original kite shape.
3 – STAGGERED SEAMS
Most of the kite’s back lines tension is distributed through the trailing-edge panels and seams. As seams are significantly stiffer than the fabric they join, they tend to strain under loads and therefore deform the profile. The staggered seams break that line of tension by balancing the stiffness between seams and cloth, which helps distribute the load over a wider area and maintain the original shape even under high loads.
4 – FABRIC WEIGHT MANAGEMENT
Our sails feature four different cloth weights, from 52 up to 155gr/m². Sail engineering allows us to control our shape and drive load tensions without using heavy fabrics or bulky designs, therefore we can reduce fabric’s weight and use. It results in a lighter, optimized kite.
TECHNOLOGY
To meet the specific needs of the development of wings and kites, and to offer a high-performance and durable product without using inaccessible materials, F-ONE has developed HITEX, a new high tenacity polyester.
Available in 158g, and exclusively for F-ONE in 178g, this new material is incredibly resistant to elongation and increases the durability of wings and kites.
HITEX is an innovative, high tenacity polyester fiber with an enhanced high-quality weaving and coating that increases the fabrics’ resistance. The 178g is a new weight and perfectly matches the needs of the center strut and center of its leading edge.
The lighter 158g is used in the leading edge tips. Used throughout the inflatable structure of the wings and kites and designed to handle the high pressures when inflating, HITEX offers performance and resistance.
Thanks to extensive Sail Engineering work, each weight of HITEX is placed in different areas. This allows absolute control of the shape session after session.
NANO
Micro ripstop polyester 55g is used on the canopies of SWING V3, CWC V2, BREEZE V4 and ONE V2.
Wings and kites are often left in the wind to flap. They are also very often wet, salty and sandy; all factors that weaken them. The canopy must therefore be very durable to keep its rigidity over time. This ensures the same performance level between the day of purchase and the end of its life.
NANO coating and Plasma treatment bring increased rigidity, resistance to elongation and tears, and durability. Used by our bluesign-certified factory, Plasma is an eco-friendly technology. Using less chemicals in the finishing process it guarantees the same performance and stability.
