Category Archives: Kite Columns

Issue 65: REVisions: 3D Flying / Catch & Throw

A few years ago, I showed up at a local kite festival, all hell-bent on [...]

Issue 65: Featured Store: Into The Wind

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 64: From the Editor

Brrrr… Are we happy to be coming out of Winter or what? As I’m gearing [...]

Issue 64: AKA Corner

I hope this finds you well and warm. Here in the Northeast USA we have [...]

Issue 64: Dave’s World: Kite Copies

I recently received a letter from Robert Van Weers in New Zealand which he asked [...]

Issue 64: Drachen Archives: The Way We Were

Another year has slipped away and memories of Y2K have become distant as the first [...]

Issue 64: News Reel

FlyNY 2009 There is a unique kite making competition in New York City this spring [...]

Issue 64: Kites… Life.

With everything that’s been going on over the past couple of years, I haven’t been [...]

Issue 64: Featured Store: Cutting Edge Kites

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 64: REVisions: Health and Happiness

Last year was probably the busiest season of flying quad I could ever hope for [...]

Issue 63: From the Editor

  In a nice change of pace, this was one of the few issues I [...]

Issue 63: AKA Corner

Hello there. I hope this finds you well and with time and weather to fly [...]

Issue 63: Dave’s World: South African Experience

Peace Park in the Khayelitsha Township is a dusty, windblown patch of ground in a [...]

Issue 63: Drachen Archives: Making Kites Fly

The front end of every exhibition is the vision. It was Francisco Toledo’s vision to [...]

Issue 63: REVisions RECapped

This time last year, I was rambling on about the coming year’s events for Revolution’s [...]

Issue 62: From the Editor

Over to the left, you can see a rare combination of completely blissed out and [...]

Issue 62: AKA Corner

Convention: Convention was great. We had plenty of room. We had good wind when we [...]

Issue 62: Dave’s World

Balloons and kites don’t usually mix well. Balloon pilots prefer little or no wind so [...]

Issue 62: Drachen Archives

As director of one of the largest collections of kites in the world, I often [...]

Issue 62: Revisions, The UK Edition

As I eluded to within my two articles regarding my trip to the UK, something [...]

Issue 61: From the Editor

After a couple of issues of promising an exciting new look to Kitelife, voila! Welcome [...]