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  • Exult

    Learning from flying in unfamiliar or non-ideal situations

    By Exult

    When being removed from your comfort flying zone you might get new experiences that you couldn't imagine or predict. This blog entry is also a vacation post card from the medieval city (in the sense that ruins and buildings from that time still exist) of Visby ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby ) in the island of Gotland ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland ) in the Baltic Sea as well as an example of how flying during new and non-ideal conditions turned out to be educational, fun and very
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  • SHBKF

    Support your LKS

    By SHBKF

    Support your LKS   I started reading the kite forums with some intensity over four years ago.  I had used computers for many years even back before the days of the WWW.  It has been quite awhile since I’ve seen that initialism used in any context.  I had previously been on a few forums of interest but I was really fired up wanting to learn anything kites.   I saw mention of an initialism LKS, Local Kite Store.  Out here in the mountains of western Virginia there was no such thing.  Maybe
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Notes from the field

Zero to Sixty

February has been quite a month.  Working six days a week passes the time quickly.  I finally had a day when it wasn't bad weather and coincided with a day off.  As I headed out Sunday afternoon I checked the thermometer, sixty degrees.  Checked the lowest recorded temperature and it read zero.  I had not reset it since the beginning of the month.  The breeze was blowing gently in my little valley so there was hope for stronger wind at my nearest flight area about five miles away.  Grabbe
SHBKF

SHBKF

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Rob's Ramble

As the day breaks

With not a lot of flight time comes, for me, a level of desertion. Motorvation leaves. Inspiration dries up. Inclination goes. I begin to contemplate selling off kites that I don't fly.    Then the day breaks and a new source of inspiration presents itself. My oldest girl, 10, has a group of friends that knock on our door every weekend and they all go to the park to ride, play, skate and generally just hang out. Th
SparkieRob

SparkieRob

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Freedom In The Sky

This Is Not A Kite Festival

We traveled to Florida to attend Kitemania South.  The weather didn't cooperate all that much but the company was great.  We brought light and medium wind kites and, of course, the winds were "blowing a gale".  And then there was the rain.  We're planning on going again next year.  Hopefully we'll have the right kites and better weather. This Is Not A Festival
photomom

photomom

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Getting Whump...

Whump Acquired

I have been home for a few hours now from our debut performance as Team KiteLife in South Padre Island, Texas. Hosted by B&S Kites.. Bill and Susie Doan..along with the City . What an event I must say too start! Loving , HUGE crowds..along with a bunch of well known kiters that love exactly that...priceless. A job well done and hopefully a continued and long lived, positive relationship between B&S Kites, the City and the South Padre Island Kite Festival. I am sure I can speak for
mystainedskin

mystainedskin

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Flying on Long Island...

I Wait All Year for a Day Like This !

February in New York can bring a huge variety of weather conditions... Of course, in the dead of winter, we get the expected freezing temperatures and snow, sometimes it's just grey, wet & generally nasty. And then there are the days like today, the calm before the next storm... 40*, bright sunshine, and a gentle onshore breeze, not enough to make you cold.  I started out with the Skyburner XL, as the wind was over 5mph when I first got the
RobB

RobB

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Flying on Long Island...

A Nice Sunny Winter Day ?

Yeah, how often does this happen ? A crazy nice sunny day, right in the middle of Winter ? Only on a weekday ! Turns out, I had an early morning appointment that finished up early, and I didn't have anything to do for the next 2.5 hours... Except drive to the nearest beach and see what I had in that bag that's always in the back of my car. Winds were around 5mph, onshore, so it was perfect for the Widow Maker standard. It was in the 40s, but the bright sun was there, keeping me warm. Any
RobB

RobB

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Flynhi (PipaKite)

Geoff's Story

While driving down the freeway I spotted someone flying a Revolution kite at Riverview Park. I had to stop to meet this person. His name is Geoff, he purchased his first quad line kite after seeing my "First Flight" video on youtube. Geoff drove to Riverview Park in hopes of running into me, using his kite as a signal in the sky. We have kept in touch for a few months and in that time he made his own kite! We are putting together measurements for new kite designs. An Arizona kite making c
Flynhi

Flynhi

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Rob's Ramble

Flying over the break

With a few projects at home requiring some attention I didn't get out much to fly. BUT. I got out on New Years Day and enjoyed some of the highest wind yet! We had a howling Easterly that was in a real hurry to leave the desert behind and hit the beach, like most Aussies would've been doing at the same time. Winds were above 60km/h (approx 40 mp/h). I had flown gusts at that speed but not constant, powerful and a little worrying too. Glad to say the good old PoloVTD got a good work out an
SparkieRob

SparkieRob

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