Category Archives: Kite Making

Issue 41: Fort Worden Kitemakers Retreat (gallery)

Photos by Rick White

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals

If there is one event that I try and make a point of always attending, [...]

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

2004 AKA Convention – Day 6

Welcome to the last day of our 27th annual convention… The morning brought more seminars [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 5

After finding some much needed coffee, I wandered over to the convention center yet again [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 4

Finally, a day off… After being tied to the sport kite competition fields for my [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 3

Good day, good flight… Workshops continued this morning, while many of yesterday’s competitors were scanning [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 2

Hello and welcome to another day of the AKA Convention!  Today we had the first [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 1

Drum roll please… Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, the American Kitefliers Association annual Convention is [...]

Issue 38: Tangler Fighter Kite Plans

Specifications [fourcol_one]Sail Bow Spine Battens[/fourcol_one] [twocol_one]Ultra-light Orcon, Icarex or polyfilm .06″ carbon rods, 24 9/16″ [...]

Issue 38: “No Secrets” Trains Pt. 2

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

Issue 37: Crazy Eddy 2

Hi! Welcome to part two of my Crazy Eddy kite arch project. If your just [...]

Issue 35: Dave’s World

Sequestered in a hundred year old Army post at the extreme northwest tip of the [...]

Issue 35: Crazy Eddy

Hello…  No, I’m not opening a used car dealership. In fact, I’m a kitebuilder. My [...]

Issue 35: On-Line Kite Project 1.0 – Della Porta

Kitebuilder.com recently presented a very new and encouraging variation on the traditional kite building workshop. [...]

Issue 34: Virtual Kite Makers Retreat

In our ongoing mission to gather and present useful concepts or programs to the larger [...]

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 6)

The final evening of our annual convention… I’m bringing a close to our daily updates [...]

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 5)

Friday morning there were teams practicing all over the place… 9 masters teams came from [...]

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 4)

It was a relief not to have any outdoor sport kite competitions scheduled today, as [...]

Issue 32: AKA Grand Nationals

As Kiting editor Mike Gillard and I arrived at the host Hope Hotel on Sunday [...]

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 3)

Wednesday morning brought crystal blue skies and a steady 4-6mph breeze again, but was still [...]