Issue 40: Newport’s First Night 2005
The event was held on Dec, 31st in a new venue for indoor kite flying in the City of Newport, RI. It was coordinated by High Flyers Flight Company as part of Newport’s First Night 2005. The organizers...
View ArticleIssue 40: Contours in Utah
In October 2004, the famed Australian kite maker Robert Brasington visited Utah for the first time. Even though he had never seen the Great Salt Lake before, Brasington already knew a lot about some...
View ArticleIssue 40: Wind Party in Buenos Aires
Every now and then, some concept or idea comes along and just “smacks” you between the eyes… and it even happens here at Kitelife, occasionally. Read on, and you’ll see! We received a “Kite Festival...
View ArticleIssue 40: 3rd International Goa Kite Carnival
We’d been gearing ourselves to hold the 3rd Goa Kite Carnival towards the third week of January 2005 when out of the blue, about the last week of October, we got an invitation from Goa to hold it...
View ArticleIssue 40: Empty Spaces: Merv Cooper
The kite community lost a good friend this Christmas… Dr. Mervin Cooper, longtime treasurer/event organizer of the Toronto Kite Fliers, passed away at the age of 61 on Friday, December 24th from a...
View ArticleIssue 40: Milking the Breeze (part 2)
This follow-up article brings us back to the subject of light wind flying techniques, except this time we’ll address how we apply them to your quad line kite! One might imagine that flying a quad line...
View ArticleIssue 40: Team Tirades (manuevers)
One of the goals of any serious team is to create a maneuver that is unique to their team. Inventing a totally unique maneuver takes experience, a lot of practice and a through understanding of what...
View ArticleIssue 40: Remembering Cris Batdorff
In 1987 I was flying with Eric and Dorothy Wolff and Frank Fiesler for the first year of the Chicago Fire. We were all very interested and involved in Stunt Kite Flying, as were many fliers in the...
View ArticleIssue 40: ProFile with Rob Vreeland
A couple of years ago Steve Hall of GWTW and I were yakking about kite photography, including words about some of the better practitioners of the art. We’d kicked around such august luminaries as John...
View ArticleIssue 40: Kites at Super Bowl XXXIX
As a 14 year kite veteran, Announcer, and Masters class trick flyer Jason Benedict has long been a proponent of kites and kiters in mass media. As the owner of Bradley Royce Entertainment, Jason has...
View ArticleIssue 40: Tangents w/out Trivia
I recall that I flew kites as a kid just like almost everyone else did. I have no major memories of that childhood kiteflying, and I guess that it was just typical “kid stuff” at the time! Many of you...
View ArticleIssue 40: ProFile with Robert Valkenburgh
On a trip to a kite festival in Taiwan last September, I was exposed to something I’d had never seen before at any of the events throughout the USA… Kinetic sculptures (generally harmonic of nature),...
View ArticleIssue 40: Full Circle… Got Kites?
In the late 80s kiting saw the spread of home grown kite events around the country, inspired and created by daily fliers who simply wanted to share their passion with others in a more organized...
View ArticleIssue 40: ProFile with Aerial Experience
In a time when the kite flying community is very much reaching out for greater exposure in the realm of professional performance status, there is a duo doing exactly that… Lee and Debbie Park first...
View ArticleIssue 40: Letters to the Editor
We don’t hear from our visitors HARDLY enough, and are always thrilled to post comments when we get them… It’s your feedback that helps us streamline, and gives us additional insight into what we do...
View ArticleIssue 40: Dave’s World: KTAI
The “Gomberg Crew” has just returned from the 17th Annual Kite Trade Convention — this year held in Primm Nevada. As many of you know, this is an annual exhibition where manufacturers and distributors...
View ArticleIssue 40: AKA Corner
Who has the biggest? The fastest? The longest tail? Kitefliers, like most other people, seem drawn to making comparisons and making claims. Sure, lots of people are in it for the fun and could care...
View ArticleIssue 40: From the Editor
It’s been a lonely winter holed up here in Oregon without any kite festivals to attend… But, we’ve been busy getting in touch with people from all over the world in our efforts to stimulate and...
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