Category Archives: Issues (1998-2011)

Issue 52: Buenos Aires Wind Party

Yeah, we’re doing it – or really, we already did it! Sure, you’ll read this [...]

Issue 52: Patagonia Kite Festival

What an amazing week we’d just experienced! We’d had a whole week of kite flying [...]

Issue 52: Windless Kite Festival

The winter in the northwest can be an odd time. From about May to the [...]

Issue 52: Great Texas Kite Club Party

What a difference a few days make. It’s only been 24 hours since I parted [...]

Issue 52: New Years in Japan

An old custom of Japan is for children to loft kites on the first day [...]

Issue 52: Buenos Aires Wind Party (gallery)

Photos by various contributors

Issue 52: Patagonia Kite Festival (gallery)

Issue 52: Windless Kite Festival (gallery)

2007 KTAI Trade Show in Albuquerque NM – Day 4

Good evening folks… Although the main portion of trade show came to a close last [...]

2007 KTAI Trade Show in Albuquerque NM – Day 3

Oh man, this morning was a tough one but after a little oatmeal and a [...]

2007 KTAI Trade Show in Albuquerque NM – Day 2

Wow, what a full day! I’ll tell you, this may be one of the smallest [...]

2007 KTAI Trade Show in Albuquerque NM – Day 1

Welcome to another year at KTAI… The other side of the kite world, where retailers [...]

Issue 51: From the Editor

Greetings and welcome to issue fifty-one of Kitelife, and our last of 2006. As we [...]

Issue 51: AKA Corner

Hello from the new president. The AKA is part of my family, and I am [...]

Issue 51: Dave’s World: The Whistling Cities of Nantong

I’m flying home today after five days in Nantong, China — home of the exquisite [...]

Issue 51: Dave’s World: The Highs and Lows of Being a Kite Celebrity

I’m pretty certain there was a sign somewhere on the table that said “Look out [...]

Issue 51: Drachen Archives – Bell Tetrahedral Cells

After describing Alexander Graham Bell’s Sable Island kite (a version of Hargrave’s box kite) in [...]

Issue 51: Featured Store (Gomberg Kites)

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

Issue 51: ProFile with Zach Gordon

We’re sitting around the Kitelife office before we head off the the AKA Convention / [...]

Issue 51: REVisions: What’s New?

This issue, I’ll touch on a few topics that have cropped over since I last [...]

Issue 51: What are you flying? Oh, nothing.

Yup, as the title suggests I built a flying zero, nothing, nada, zip, zilch! Well [...]