Category Archives: Kite Columns

Issue 58: Kites… Life.

Our 58th issue, and our second under David Hathaway’s editorship… April will mark our nine [...]

Issue 58: Drachen Archives – Der Papier Drachen Of Japan

Another easily overlooked gem in the Drachen Foundation’s collection is the 1914 German pamphlet,  Der [...]

Issue 58: Kite Chi from The Coreylama

Seen any good kite movies lately? That would have been a ridiculous statement just a [...]

Issue 58: REVisions: Clinics and Anniversaries

How about we refer to this installment of REVisions as one of those “variety show” [...]

Issue 58: Featured Store: Elmer’s Flag and Banner, Kites Too!

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

Issue 57: From the Editor

Many of you have heard the idea that if you could get six million monkeys [...]

Issue 57: AKA Corner

People ask me all the time how I got in to kite flying. The answer [...]

Issue 57: Kites… Life.

As Kitelife prepares for its 11th year in publication with 2008 right around the corner, [...]

Issue 57: Dave’s World: Down to South Africa

Susan and I are just back from South Africa. This was our fourth trip to [...]

Issue 57: Kite Chi with Corey Jensen – Living That Kite Life

Okay, I don’t know if you all know Corey Jensen. Oh, never mind some of [...]

Issue 57: Drachen Archives – A Cody

On October 16, 1908, cowboy showman and kite enthusiast Samuel Franklin Cody became the first [...]

Issue 57: Featured Store: Kites R Us

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

Issue 57: REVisions – Own Your Hover

What? Its coming up on winter already? I’m scraping frost off of my car? How [...]

Issue 56: From the Editor

Fall greetings to all our readers, and welcome to another issue of Kitelife! We came [...]

Issue 56: AKA Corner

What does the AKA have for sport kite oriented fliers and festival organizers? Lots of [...]

Issue 56: Dave’s World: Livin large in lunen

Mike Agner and I are just back from the huge German festival of Lunen. What [...]

Issue 56: REVisions: Quad Potpourri

Having drawn a complete blank on something “specific” to write about for Revisions in this [...]

Issue 56: Featured Store: Picture Pretty Kites

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

Issue 55: From the Editor

Well folks, we’re more than half way through our kiting season and it’s time for [...]

Issue 55: AKA Corner

Thirty Years ago, the members of the American Kitefliers Association gathered for the first time. [...]

Issue 55: Dave’s World: Weifang Kite Museum

The first time I visited the International Kite Museum in Weifang was back in 1989. [...]