Download Kite Lines - Vol. 02 No. 2 (Spring 1979)

Cover Story: Kites in museums: Dave Checkley on the Tokyo Kite Museum; Valerie Govig on kites in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Features: Tal Streeter at la Fête du Cerf-Volant in Paris; Art Foran on flying kites on wilderness treks; Valerie Govig on finding kite nirvana in Nag's Head, NC; Red Braswell on two-stringing the delta to fly figures. Departments: Letter from the Editor: magazine changes; What's New: Kites: a new roundup of kite reels and a do-it-yourself alternative by Jack Van Gilder, plus Stratton's Covered Wagon kite kit; What's New: Books: Kites: The Gentle Art of High Flying, by Susan Tyrrell and Kites: Sculpture in the Sky, by Hiroi; Empty Spaces in the Sky: obituaries of Shingo Modegi and Frank Mots; For the Record: Steven Flack's altitude effort; a new 4,128 most-on-a-line mark set in Japan; and a 9-hr 15-min duration record set by Tom Sisson and Carl Brewer in Seattle, WA; Profile/Design Workshop: Stephen Bernstein and his Chinese bird kite; News From Here & There: Marilyn Perlman's news from the San Diego Kite Club, CA; Jerry Grill on Denver's KIM-FM Radio Kite Festival, CO; teacher Truman Williamson on a school's assault on a kite train record in Louisville, KY; Hank Szerlag on Detroit's 5/20 Kite Group, Steven Jeske on activities in Saginaw and Lansing, MI; Bob Ingraham making news in NM; James Linnen on the Long Island Kitefliers Association, NY; news of the Ohio Society for the Elevation of Kites; news from Seattle and Spokane, WA; Martin Dowling on BBC coverage of a Cody manlift reenactment and Jim Whitehouse on the Stanford Hall Kite Festival, England; Larry Hoffman on Japanese/Korean kite visits and Korean reeling.