Author Archives: Al Hargus (RIP)

History of Sport Kite Competition – pt 3

The American Kite Magazine National Stunt Kite Circuit The American Kite Magazine National Stunt Kite [...]

History of Sport Kite Competition – Pt 2

How do you compare Apples to Oranges After the 1987 SKC season ended our imaginative [...]

History of Sport Kite Competition – Pt 1

The Wanderings of a “Kite Addict” [box type=”note” style=”rounded” border=”full”]Editor’s note: This is the first [...]

Issue 45: Tangents w/out Trivia

Yep, you read that right, a total ban of kite flying, and kite sales by [...]

Issue 44: Tangents w/out Trivia

Quite a few people have talked about the decline of participants in our hobby and [...]

Issue 44: Cleveland Kite Festival

No one is really sure exactly how many times the Cleveland kite festival has taken [...]

Issue 43: Tangents w/out Trivia

I’m sure that you have all heard many people talk about the “Power of Positive [...]

Issue 43: North Coast Stunt Kite Games

On the third weekend in July for the past twenty years kite fliers have been [...]

Issue 42: Team Tirades: Maneuvers 3

In my last two discussions about team maneuvers I talked about the possibilities of altering [...]

Issue 42: Empty Spaces: Sue Sedgewick

Susan M. Morris Sedgwick, age 50, passed away at her Millcreek Twp. home on Thursday, [...]

Issue 41: Team Tirades (maneuvers 2)

In the last issue of Kitelife, I discussed modifying an existing maneuver from another team [...]

Issue 41: Tangents w/out Trivia

“If it’s too loud! Your too old!” I think everyone has heard that expression. Maybe [...]

Issue 40: Tangents w/out Trivia

I recall that I flew kites as a kid just like almost everyone else did. [...]

Issue 40: Remembering Cris Batdorff

In 1987 I was flying with Eric and Dorothy Wolff and Frank Fiesler for the [...]

Issue 40: Team Tirades (manuevers)

One of the goals of any serious team is to create a maneuver that is [...]

Issue 39: Ben Franklin Project (part 2)

After collecting all my “evidence” about Franklin’s claimed Electric Kite Flight (see Part 1 – [...]

Issue 39: Tangents w/out the Trivia

Several months ago Peter Lynn, the world renown kite flier, and kite builder flew his [...]

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: “No Secrets” Trains Pt. 2

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

Issue 38: Cleveland Kite Festival

Kitefliers from all across the Midwest gathered on September 11-12 for the Cleveland Kite Festival [...]

Issue 21 (March 2001): Tangents and Trivia

Spring! When gentleman (and lady) kitefliers thoughts turn lightly to Kite Flying, much to the [...]