Category Archives: Issues (1998-2011)

Issue 57: Carolina Kite Fest

The 20th annual Carolina Kite Fest was held on October 27th and 28th  at the [...]

Issue 57: Kites Over Granbury

Planning for The 2nd Annual “Kites Over Granbury” festival started on September 4, ’07 with [...]

Issue 57: Camas Indoor Festival

As the weather starts to turn chilly and the opportunities to fly outside begin to [...]

Issue 57: South Padre Island Competition

Windchasers Kite Shop, owned and operated by Guy Blatnik, held the 11th Annual SPI Kite [...]

Issue 57: Family Day Kite Festival

For seven years in the 1970s San Francisco was home to the Family Day Kite [...]

Issue 57: Tokyo Bay Flight Party (Gallery)

Photos by Akiyoshi Odagawa and Sumiko Yamashita

Issue 57: Red Bull Kite Performers in Perth (Gallery)

Photos by John Barresi, Chris Goff and Lam Hoac

Issue 57: Niagara Falls Kite Festival (Gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

2007 AKA Convention: Day 5

Well, unfortunately, it had to happen sooner or later this week, the day was for [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 4

Here, lets get this out of the way early this time. When I woke up [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 3

With daily updates that have been filled with dire weather predictions, I certainly expected today [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 2

So just how did the day turn out after such dire predictions of rain, lightning [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 1

And welcome to the 2007 edition of Daily Updates from the AKA Grand Nationals! This [...]

Issue 56: From the Editor

Fall greetings to all our readers, and welcome to another issue of Kitelife! We came [...]

Issue 56: AKA Corner

What does the AKA have for sport kite oriented fliers and festival organizers? Lots of [...]

Issue 56: Dave’s World: Livin large in lunen

Mike Agner and I are just back from the huge German festival of Lunen. What [...]

Issue 56: Drachen Archives: “The Black Files”

In addition to the hundreds of kites, tools, photos, and books in its collection, the [...]

Issue 56: ProFile with Pam Kirk & Mike Dennis

One of the joys and delights of working on Kitelife is the opportunity to “interview” [...]

Issue 56: REVisions: Quad Potpourri

Having drawn a complete blank on something “specific” to write about for Revisions in this [...]

Issue 56: Featured Store: Picture Pretty Kites

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

Issue 56: Berkeley Kite Festival

For years now, people have been referring to Berkeley, California’s annual kite festival as “Berserkeley”, [...]