Issue 70: Rockport Kite Festival
3rd Great Texas Kite Club Fun Fly “If you don’t like the weather in South Texas just wait a few hours!!” So often that statement is quoted in jest, but never has it been so true as on Friday...
View ArticleIssue 70: Windless Kite Festival
Yeah, we’re on the road again, this time to the 9th Annual “Windless” Indoor Kite Festival – the oldest continual Indoor Festival in the USA. Every year, I’m kind of surprised by how young this...
View ArticleIssue 70: South Padre Island Kite Festival
Going to some kite festivals is a bit difficult and “pricey” at times… So I’ve kinda avoided the hefty travel costs of going to some of the more distant, out-of-the-way fests, preferring to stick...
View ArticleIssue 70: Kite Trade Association Intl Trade Show
Arriving early in the morning on Monday, Takako and I took the opportunity to explore some of Las Vegas before meeting up with Ben D’Antonio, Joe and Dave Hadzicki later in the evening for our drive...
View ArticleIssue 70: Empty Spaces – Kerry Glass
Kerry Glass was a kite flying friend of mine. And please put some extra emphasis on that word “friend,” too. That word is quite important to us. Oh, our friendship originally centered on kite...
View ArticleIssue 70: Featured Store – Picture Pretty Kites
Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive of Kitelife and other areas of the kiting community…The retailers you’ll find here are established, proven vendors....
View ArticleIssue 70: Kite Plan – Ohashi’s No-Bridle Kites
When is a bridle not a bridle??When it is a single line attached to a single point on a kite. Eiji Ohashi of Japan, known around the world for his kite trains, originally called this design system the...
View ArticleIssue 70: Kite Plan – Tekaweya
This kite design challenged us more than any other we ever set out to create. Our main purpose with the Tekaweya was to explore the contest between weight and drag reduction in sport kites. Our...
View ArticleIssue 70: Guide to Nose Replacement
Materials needed: Soldering iron with pointed tip (30 watt, no more, no less) Metal Ruler Silver or White Sharpie Glass table (used for cutting fabric with soldering iron) Mylar Kevlar (or some other...
View ArticleIssue 70: Drachen Archives – German Submarine Rotary Wing Kite
Having attended the High Altitude Wind Power symposium at California State University in Chico, I was surprised at the variety of high altitude energy systems proposed by presenters and attendees...
View ArticleIssue 70: REVisions – The Drill Bit
The Drill Bit A couple of weeks back, a thread popped up in the Rev Kites forum that talked at length about practice and learning curves. Given it’s something I do on a regular basis, I figured I’d...
View ArticleIssue 70: Kite Comics
Kite Comics by Dan Thompson This issue marks the second set of kite cartoons we’ve had made for Kitelife Magazine, courtesy of Dan Thompson (Funny Cartoonist)… These two were just made “off the cuff”,...
View ArticleIssue 70: Outstanding Fields – Seaside, OR USA
Hi! While I read Luc Parent’s gorgeous recommendation for the Iles de la Madeleine, in Kitelife’s last issue with considerable interest (and a very healthy amount of envy), I have decided that my own...
View ArticleIssue 70: News Reel
Travel/Tourism: Kite travel time share: the best of all world’s with a great business model! http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0118/entrepreneurs-offshore-odysseys-timeshare-share-float.html...
View ArticleIssue 70: Dave’s World – Safety, Safety, Safety
A perfect flying day for me means not having to worry about someone getting hurt. I do all I can to make sure my gear is well maintained, anchored and secure. But it is the things I can’t control that...
View ArticleIssue 70: Dave’s World: Gound Control
Some days it is just too windy. Some days the field is too crowded. And some days, you just decide you need a show without the need to fly it, too. In other words, better to stay on the ground than...
View ArticleIssue 70: AKA Corner
How many times have you flown a kite this New Year? Don’t let the weather be a deterrent! Either adopt the attitude of those of us in the north and get dressed to go hang out on the ice, or use this...
View ArticleIssue 70: Kites… Life.
Sitting alongside my wife, I’m starting this article at 35,000 feet somewhere over Arizona on my way to iQuad’s first major outdoor festival of the year in South Padre Island (TX) and I’m finding...
View ArticleIssue 70: From the Editor
Welcome to the 70th issue of Kitelife, the latest in over twelve years of online publishing by kitefliers, for kitefliers where we’re still doing our best to offer our brand of balance between...
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