Download Kite Lines - Vol. 04 No. 2 (First Quarter 1982)

Cover Story: George Peters at play in Hawaii, by Clare Chanler Forster. Features: Dale Fleener on the Venice Pier Kite Festival; Mel Govig on the kites at the Sky Art Conference at MIT, MA, including blind fighter kiteflier Charles Goumas; fighter kites: how to pick and fly them, by Mel Govig with an "Easy Learner" model; Gordon Teekell on the authentic Indian fighter and Valerie Govig, with Mukesh Shah, on the "Kite Clouds" of India's Utran; a Scheveningen photo album by Jacques and Laurence Fissier. Departments: Letter from the Editor: the Kite Lines research library, open for business; What's New: Kites: the Cloud Teaser, Wind Mill Kites' Sweep Wing, the Kitamaran, the Vertifoil, John Clarke's Seagull and Bat light-wind deltas and Ultra Kite's Conyne birds; What's New: Books: Kites: An Historical Survey, by Clive Hart, Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell, by Eber, Simple Fabric Kites by Greger, Kites: Aussie Style, by Hosking, Make Your Own Kite (new kites) by John Jordan; Innovations: Curtis Marshall and Valerie Govig on Kites to Make and Fly by Pelham; Design Workshop: Ed Grauel's Flapper, a keelless delta; Empty Spaces in the Sky: Shanna Marshall; Kite Lines Bookstore inaugurated; News from Here & There: Paul Garber on his kite workshop at the National Air and Space Museum, DC; a happy birthday to Ansel Toney, 95, in IN; the Brooklyn Kite Club's 500-foot altitude limit problems, NY; Harry Osborne is zapped at Edmonds Community College in WA retrieving a kite from power lines; Helen Bushell on the Australian Kite Association; Rick and Eileen Kinnaird on a kite-tinged honeymoon and a Japan Kite Association visit to the Royal Academy of Arts, England; André Mignard on a kite display at the Gare de I'Est in Paris, France; news from the Norwegian Kite Society; first "Best of Show" color photos, with Karin Verschoor's "Madras" parafoil; Shakib Gunn on Singapore's biggest kite contest ever; Ahsan Khan of India reports on kite consulting in United Arab Emirates; For the Record: the most children to make and fly kites in one day at an elementary school (in Holcomb, NY), a kite exhibit attendance mark in Nashville and controversy over standards for largest kite.