Category Archives: Issues (1998-2011)

Issue 72: Maryland International Kite Expo

Every once in a while, real life and this thing called a “Monday to Friday [...]

Issue 72: Great Lakes Kite Festival

When you end up writing a lot of articles involving trips to festivals (by choice, [...]

Issue 72: Lincoln City Indoor Kite Festival

Well, we’re back at it. Off to Lincoln City, OR again… Since it’s the end [...]

Issue 72: Rockaway Beach Kite Festival

How about a GREAT Kite-Fest at Rockaway Beach? All right… so clue me in. Where [...]

Issue 72: Festival Elevando Cometas y Volantines

Flying to raise hopes after earthquake (Haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en español) [...]

Issue 72: Isla Blanca Festival

It was the 2nd Annual Festival de Papalotes in Isla Blanca, Mexico.  Now, I’ve been [...]

Issue 72: Festival Elevando Cometas y Volantines (Spanish)

Volando a despertar expectativas tras el terremoto (Click here to read this article in English) [...]

Issue 72: Maryland International Kite Expo Gallery

Photos by Takako Barresi

Issue 71: From the Editor

Wow, seventy-one issues… Can you believe we’ve been at it this long? Even since I [...]

Issue 71: Kites… Life.

Quite often, it seems like we’ve got more pans in the fire than one could [...]

Issue 71: AKA Corner

NKM and the AKA online… If you want to have a great time celebrating the [...]

Issue 71: Dave’s World – Full Circle

Thirty years ago, I stumbled across a small kite festival at the D River Wayside [...]

Issue 71: Dave’s World – Thailand Intl Kite Festival

Looking out at photos of the field, there is one thing you notice and one [...]

Issue 71: Drachen Archives – Relegated to the Back Room…

As I was starting to organize all of the assorted objects that are not kites, [...]

Issue 71: News Reel

Japan: Shirone Kite Festival is a 360 year old kite festival which features kite battles [...]

Issue 71: Kite Comics

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

Issue 71: KAP N900 PUSH Project

What is KAP? KAP (Kite Aerial Photography) is the art and technique of using large [...]

Issue 71: REVisions – 100 Revs at WSIKF

I thought I had mentioned this in the last Revisions in Issue 70, but upon [...]

Issue 71: Buggy Newz – PKA Icicles Buggy Weekend

Westwood Ho! Beach, North Devon, UK. 30-31st January 2010 Saturday events: –  1 Hr enduro [...]

Issue 71: Rokkaku Workshop

Okay, we’re on our way again. This time, it’s Theresa Norelius and I – on [...]

Issue 71: Origin of the word “KITE”

Numismaster.com posted an article recently about the origin of the word ‘kite’. The beginning of [...]