Category Archives: 2004

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

Issue 39: Taipei International Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by Dave “Geezer” Shattuck

2004 AKA Convention – Day 6

Welcome to the last day of our 27th annual convention… The morning brought more seminars [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 5

After finding some much needed coffee, I wandered over to the convention center yet again [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 4

Finally, a day off… After being tied to the sport kite competition fields for my [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 3

Good day, good flight… Workshops continued this morning, while many of yesterday’s competitors were scanning [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 2

Hello and welcome to another day of the AKA Convention!  Today we had the first [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 1

Drum roll please… Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, the American Kitefliers Association annual Convention is [...]

Issue 38: From the Editor

Hello and welcome back for issue 38 of Kitelife! We’re especially proud of this month’s [...]

Issue 38: AKA Corner

Its Convention time again! In just a few weeks, AKA members from around the country, [...]

Issue 38: Dave’s World

We’ve got a seven hour lay-over in Frankfurt. That’s time enough to check email again, [...]

Issue 38: Letters to the Editor

Having been a part of the greater kiting family for so long now, I always [...]

Issue 38: ProFile with the Bay Area Sundowners

When I started flying in August of 1990, I stumbled into my first kite festival [...]

Issue 38: Ben Franklin’s Electric Kite – Part 1

To many kitefliers and to the rest of the non-flying world Benjamin Franklin is considered [...]

Issue 38: ProFile with Carl Bragiel

I met Carl for the first time a couple years ago at the 2003 Crescent [...]

Issue 38: Under a Blue Moon

Flying kites and the idea of flying with friends has a major appeal to me. [...]

Issue 38: ProFile with Cristoph Riddle

I first had the pleasure of meeting Christoph at the Berkeley Kite Festival in 2003… [...]

Issue 38: Bruce Lambert’s Tips – Adjusting a fighter kite for optimum performance!

Here’s the goal or objective for adjusting a fighter kite: Adjust the kite so its [...]

Issue 38: Tangler Fighter Kite Plans

Specifications [fourcol_one]Sail Bow Spine Battens[/fourcol_one] [twocol_one]Ultra-light Orcon, Icarex or polyfilm .06″ carbon rods, 24 9/16″ [...]

Issue 38: “No Secrets” Trains Pt. 2

When I wrote the original No Secrets Handbook of Kite Trains back in 1990 (and [...]