Author Archives: David Hathaway

Issue 59: SPI Kite Festival

Last year, when John Barresi and I came back from South Padre Island, we vowed [...]

Issue 59: Kite Party 6

6 years ago, a few members from Gone With the Wind’s  forum decided to get [...]

Issue 58: From the Editor

Many years ago, when I was hanging out in kite focused IRC groups and participating [...]

Issue 58: REVisions: Clinics and Anniversaries

How about we refer to this installment of REVisions as one of those “variety show” [...]

Issue 58: Treasure Island Kite Festival

To properly tell a tale, one should always set the tone from when the tale [...]

Issue 57: From the Editor

Many of you have heard the idea that if you could get six million monkeys [...]

Issue 57: REVisions – Own Your Hover

What? Its coming up on winter already? I’m scraping frost off of my car? How [...]

Issue 57: Lincoln City Fall Festival

What? It’s fall already?  With the AKA Grand Nationals over, this left one single outdoor [...]

Issue 57: Niagara Falls International Kite Festival

Back in 1848, there was a dilemma. It was desired to have a bridge that [...]

Issue 57: Camas Indoor Festival

As the weather starts to turn chilly and the opportunities to fly outside begin to [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 5

Well, unfortunately, it had to happen sooner or later this week, the day was for [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 4

Here, lets get this out of the way early this time. When I woke up [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 3

With daily updates that have been filled with dire weather predictions, I certainly expected today [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 2

So just how did the day turn out after such dire predictions of rain, lightning [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 1

And welcome to the 2007 edition of Daily Updates from the AKA Grand Nationals! This [...]

Issue 56: REVisions: Quad Potpourri

Having drawn a complete blank on something “specific” to write about for Revisions in this [...]

Issue 56: Berkeley Kite Festival

For years now, people have been referring to Berkeley, California’s annual kite festival as “Berserkeley”, [...]

Issue 56: Frank Mots Kite Festival

Once upon a time, in the city of Milwaukee, there was a man that was [...]

Issue 56: WA State Intl Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by David Hathaway

Issue 55: REVisions: All Lined Up

As a person gets their very first quad kite, one of the very first lessons [...]

Issue 55: Wildwood International Kite Festival

Wildwood. The birthplace of “competition” amongst sport kites and one of the longer running festivals [...]