Category Archives: General Topics

Issue 41: 3Snowkite World Championships

February 10th (unofficial) From February 14th to 20th of 2005, sport fans and party people [...]

Issue 41: Review of Extreme by Level One

Specifications Manufacturer: Level One Models: Xtreme Std. & Xtreme Light Wingspan: 200 cm std, 203 [...]

Issue 41: Review of Speedfoil RM10 by Premier Kites

Specifications Manufacturer: Premier Kites Model: RM10 Wingspan: 120″ Height: 24.5″ (spar to trailing edge) Type [...]

Issue 41: Review of Cherry Bomb by New Tech

Specifications Manufacturer: New Tech Kites Wingspan: 66″ (168cm) Height: 30″ (76cm) Type of kite: Entry [...]

Issue 41: Fort Worden Kitemakers Retreat (gallery)

Photos by Rick White

Issue 41: Up The River Indoor Festival (gallery)

Photos by Caitlin Bartlemay

Issue 40: Milking the Breeze (part 2)

This follow-up article brings us back to the subject of light wind flying techniques, except [...]

Issue 40: Newport’s First Night 2005

The event was held on Dec, 31st in a new venue for indoor kite flying [...]

2005 KTAI Trade Show – Day 1

Welcome to the Kite Trade Association’s annual trade show!  I know we’re a day early [...]

Issue 39: Judging the Judges

Why should we judge the Judges? Competition is done, scores are posted, who cares? The [...]

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals

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

Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival (results)

Open Individual Indoor Unlimited Jerry Cannon Ray Underwood Egan Davis Scott Davis Tristan Underwood Wayne [...]

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: ProFile with Cristoph Riddle

I first had the pleasure of meeting Christoph at the Berkeley Kite Festival in 2003… [...]

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″ [...]