Category Archives: 2009

Issue 66: 浜松まつり

– Click here to read this report in English – 英語はこちら 毎年5月3日から5日に静岡の浜松市で行われる浜松祭りは日本の有名な祭りのひとつであり、 毎年約200万人の観客を動員します。3日間の期間中、さまざまなイベントが催され、 市内は興奮のるつぼと化します。 日中は凧合戦が中田島砂丘で行われ、 [...]

Issue 66: Hamamatsu Kite Festival

– Click here to read this report in Japanese – 日本語はこちら The Hamamatsu Festival, held [...]

Issue 66: Maryland International Kite Exposition – MIKE

Maryland International Kite Festival, the last weekend of April, was a perfect event in every [...]

Issue 66: Great Lakes Kite Festival

Last year when I trundled off to Grand Haven for the 21st Annual Great Lakes [...]

Issue 66: Kite Fest Lousianne

In 1688, a French explorer named Sieur d’Iberville was leading an expedition down the Mississippi [...]

Issue 66: Great Lakes Kite Festival Gallery

Issue 65: From the Editor

Wow, can you believe this issue marks our 11th year as an Internet magazine? Still [...]

Issue 65: AKA Corner

I hope this finds you well and thinking about kites. Here is the latest from [...]

Issue 65: Dave’s World – Pasir Gudang

Getting to Malaysia isn’t hard. It just takes time. In my own case, I flew [...]

Issue 65: Dave’s World: Tips and Techniques

The Tire Technique… A few years back, I was flying at a festival in New [...]

Issue 65: Drachen Archives: Traditions of Woodblock

In Japan in the early 18th Century began a great kite-hysteria that lasted through most [...]

Issue 65: News Reel

New sculpture takes flight By HAYLEY GALE – The Nelson Mail Last updated 13:56 18/03/2009 [...]

Issue 65: Kite Comics

This issue marks the first set of kite cartoons we’ve had made for Kitelife Magazine, [...]

Issue 65: ProFile: Paul de Bakker

I first had the pleasure of meeting Paul de Bakker nearly four years ago in [...]

Issue 65: REVisions: 3D Flying / Catch & Throw

A few years ago, I showed up at a local kite festival, all hell-bent on [...]

Issue 65: Kite Plan: The “Sedgwickcube”

We first saw this kite bobbing over the boardwalk at Ocean City, Maryland during the [...]

Issue 65: That Airbrush Look, from a Can!

I admire the beautiful appliqué work of today’s kite artists. But one long-time kitemaker told [...]

Issue 65: Featured Store: Into The Wind

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 65: Empty Spaces: Margaret Greger

A former schoolteacher, Greger taught thousands of children the how to make kites, making her [...]

Issue 65: Wind Meter App for iPhone

The introduction of iPhones and similarly powerful handhelds is changing our resources as kitefliers on [...]

Issue 65: Spring Kite Tune Up

Well… it’s here – officially anyway. SPRING!!! Yeah, some folks are still knee-deep in that [...]