Category Archives: Kite Columns
Articles from our long-time contributors
Issue 48: AKA Corner
Soon enough, it will be AKA election time again. AKA is governed by a twenty [...]
Jun
Issue 48: Dave’s World: Weymouth
Hugh Blowers summed it up the first day. “There’s all the wind you need”, he [...]
Jun
Issue 48: Drachen Archives: Featured Items
No one (to The Drachen Foundation’s knowledge) owns an original Roch Donzella “Monobloc” kite from [...]
Jun
Issue 48: Featured Store: Cutting Edge
Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]
Jun
Issue 48: REVisions: Trip to Quad Heaven
Many years ago, when I first picked up a kite, there were a few magazines [...]
Jun
Issue 47: From the Editor
The 2006 kiting season is off to a running start with summer fast approaching, and [...]
Apr
Issue 47: AKA Corner
AKA is back in the raffle business. Several years back, the Association organized a series [...]
Apr
Issue 47: Dave’s World
We arrived in Bangkok at midnight – eight road-weary Americans and twenty huge bags of [...]
Apr
Issue 47: Drachen Foundation Archives
Three years ago the Drachen Foundation completed an ambitious, multi-year project designed to draw the [...]
Apr
Issue 47: REVisions: Competition Kit
So, you’ve decided that your flying has reached a point where you’d now like to [...]
Apr
Issue 46: From the Editor
Out of the winter doldrums and into full swing of the 2006 kite season… Having [...]
Feb
Issue 46: AKA Corner
If you are a member of a kite club, the group can affiliate with the [...]
Feb
Issue 46: Dave’s World: KTAI
We’re traveling home today from sunny Florida where we’ve spent the past week at the [...]
Feb
Issue 46: Drachen Foundation Archives
Is a replicate Blue Hill Box kite part of the DF Archive? No. The recently [...]
Feb
Issue 46: REVisions: Bicycle, Bicycle!
Like riding a Bike… One of the big mysteries for new quad line fliers is [...]
Issue 45: From the Editor
Happy Holidays and welcome to yet another issue of Kitelife – what a long, strange [...]
Dec
Issue 45: AKA Corner
It is curious to watch people who become AKA members, and then after a while, [...]
Dec
Issue 45: Dave’s World
Kids. What can we do with them at our events? I’ve see all kids of [...]
Dec
Issue 45: REVisions: Getting a Handle On it!
So, with this issue, I’ll wrap up some of the basic things newish Rev flyers [...]
Dec
Issue 44: From the Editor
Welcome to our latest issue, it’s been a crazy past few weeks with so much [...]
Oct
Issue 44: AKA Corner
By the time you read this, AKA will have announced election results. Mail ballots are [...]
Oct