Category Archives: Issue 40 (Jan/Feb)

Issue 40: From the Editor

It’s been a lonely winter holed up here in Oregon without any kite festivals to [...]

Issue 40: AKA Corner

Who has the biggest? The fastest? The longest tail? Kitefliers, like most other people, seem [...]

Issue 40: Dave’s World: KTAI

The “Gomberg Crew” has just returned from the 17th Annual Kite Trade Convention — this [...]

Issue 40: Letters to the Editor

We don’t hear from our visitors HARDLY enough, and are always thrilled to post comments [...]

Issue 40: ProFile with Aerial Experience

In a time when the kite flying community is very much reaching out for greater [...]

Issue 40: Full Circle… Got Kites?

In the late 80s kiting saw the spread of home grown kite events around the [...]

Issue 40: ProFile with Robert Valkenburgh

On a trip to a kite festival in Taiwan last September, I was exposed to [...]

Issue 40: Tangents w/out Trivia

I recall that I flew kites as a kid just like almost everyone else did. [...]

Issue 40: ProFile with Rob Vreeland

A couple of years ago Steve Hall of GWTW and I were yakking about kite [...]

Issue 40: Remembering Cris Batdorff

In 1987 I was flying with Eric and Dorothy Wolff and Frank Fiesler for the [...]

Issue 40: Team Tirades (manuevers)

One of the goals of any serious team is to create a maneuver that is [...]

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: Empty Spaces: Merv Cooper

The kite community lost a good friend this Christmas… Dr. Mervin Cooper, longtime treasurer/event organizer [...]

Issue 40: 3rd International Goa Kite Carnival

We’d been gearing ourselves to hold the 3rd Goa Kite Carnival towards the third week [...]

Issue 40: Wind Party in Buenos Aires

Every now and then, some concept or idea comes along and just “smacks” you between [...]

Issue 40: Contours in Utah

In October 2004, the famed Australian kite maker Robert Brasington visited Utah for the first [...]

Issue 40: Newport’s First Night 2005

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

Issue 40: 3rd Intl Goa Kite Carnival (gallery)

Photos by Jose Sainz