Category Archives: 1998

Issue 4: Speedsailing

My wife and I arrived at Heathrow airport on Friday, October 9 with just three [...]

Issue 4: Twisted Lines Festival

Topeka, Kansas I can’t begin to tell you how much fun this was. Perfect weekend, [...]

Issue 4: Kite History 101 – Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi and the Kite that Launched the Wireless Communications Era The Italian inventor Guglielmo [...]

Issue 4: Ohio Cup

June 27-28, 1998 Bowling Green, Ohio This first-time event, held in northeastern Ohio on the [...]

Issue 4: Photo Gallery

Picture of the Month Rick Fiala reports that “I used a really good camera, and [...]

Issue 3: Kites… Life.

Well, here we are again! Thanks for joining us for the third issue of Kitelife. [...]

Issue 3: Tangents and Trivia

So, here we go again! Has a month passed already? I’m not sure about the [...]

Issue 3: AKA Corner

In our last column, we mentioned a lot of reasons for joining the AKA: the [...]

Issue 3: 4play

They say music soothes the savage beast.  Trust me, a kite zipping through the sky [...]

Issue 3: Visual Eyes

Films Filters and Miscellany Before I go into more specifics about setting up shots, I’d [...]

Issue 3: Dave’s World

The Great Trilobite Disaster or “In just One Idio-second” After the festival in the United [...]

Issue 3: Novice Class

Welcome to Novice Class for June, 1998. I have had the pleasure of attending the [...]

Issue 3: UK View

Hmmm, jet lag, ZZZZZZZZZZ…… I hate jet lag, but I love doing things that end [...]

Issue 3: Doin’ it Indoors

In the last issue I covered some of the basics of indoor kite flying. This [...]

Issue 3: Kitemaker Profile – Geert Donker Duyvis

I’m Geert Donker Duyvis, born in Delft and still living and flying there. I’ve been [...]

Issue 3: Kitemaker Profile – Dick Barnes

I will be interviewing a kitemaker each month for Kitelife, the Internet Magazine. Here is [...]

Issue 3: Welcome to the Machine

Needles and thread The needle and thread combination is to your sewing machine what gasoline [...]

Issue 3: Wildwood Kite Festival

The 13th Annual East Coast Stuntkite Championships Wildwood, New Jersey…the beach where legends have been [...]

Issue 3: Wildwood Kite Festival (Photo Gallery)

1998 Wildwood International Kite Festival Pictures by Al Lee Pictures by Rick and Robyne Gardner [...]

Issue 3: Interview with Roger Chewning

Roger Chewning was one of the four founders of the East Coast Stunt Kite Championships [...]

Issue 3: Brit Invasion

Photos by Robyne and Rick Gardner and Mike Gillard American fliers and audiences were fortunate [...]