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Issue 40: 3rd Intl Goa Kite Carnival (gallery)

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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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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),...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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...

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Issue 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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