Tag Archives: kite making

Issue 45: The Original Eddy Kite

Based on the Eddy Kite Patent No. 646, 375 issued on March 27, 1900. Introduction [...]

Issue 45: Flying Nun Kite Plan

I’m not sure exactly how old this kite design is, but I imagine it’s at [...]

Issue 44: ProFile with Otto Vossen

Amidst my travels to India, Malaysia and Taiwan last year I kept bumping into one [...]

Issue 44: Otto’s Creations

Amy The joy of seeing someone else enjoying, might be the life motto of Amy. [...]

Issue 42: ProFile with Ron & Sandy Gibian

If we’re very lucky, at least once in our lifetime we’ll meet someone we just [...]

Issue 42: Laminating a Bamboo Spine

There is one aspect of bamboo spines in fighter kites I have never liked. I [...]

Issue 41: ProFile with Shawn and Patty Tinkham

When we first approached Shawn and Patty Tinkham about the possibility of a Kitelife  interview [...]

Issue 41: Fort Worden Kitemakers Retreat

This year I had the pleasure of attending the 22nd annual Fort Worden Kitemakers Conference.  [...]

Issue 41: Fort Worden Kitemakers Retreat (gallery)

Photos by Rick White

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals

If there is one event that I try and make a point of always attending, [...]

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

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 [...]

Issue 37: Crazy Eddy 2

Hi! Welcome to part two of my Crazy Eddy kite arch project. If your just [...]

Issue 35: Crazy Eddy

Hello…  No, I’m not opening a used car dealership. In fact, I’m a kitebuilder. My [...]

Issue 35: On-Line Kite Project 1.0 – Della Porta

Kitebuilder.com recently presented a very new and encouraging variation on the traditional kite building workshop. [...]

Issue 34: Virtual Kite Makers Retreat

In our ongoing mission to gather and present useful concepts or programs to the larger [...]

Issue 32: AKA Grand Nationals

As Kiting editor Mike Gillard and I arrived at the host Hope Hotel on Sunday [...]

Issue 5: Kitemaker Profile 2 – Richard Gareau

Now that Kitelife has gone bi-monthly, I will try to include profiles on more than [...]

Issue 5: A Special Experience

Recently I had the good fortune to be contacted by Pam Brasseux of Camp Periwinkle [...]

Issue 3: Welcome to the Machine

Needles and thread The needle and thread combination is to your sewing machine what gasoline [...]