Category Archives: KL Archive

Issue 39: Taipei International Kite Festival

The trip to Taipei, Taiwan for the 2004 Taipei International Kite Festival was my fourth [...]

Issue 39: Festival International De L’Air

The Theme for this year’s festival in Base Nature, Frejus France was the country of [...]

Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival

Well, here we go again… Charly and I are off to another Kite Festival – [...]

Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival (results)

Open Individual Indoor Unlimited Jerry Cannon Ray Underwood Egan Davis Scott Davis Tristan Underwood Wayne [...]

Issue 39: Carolina Kite Festival

The 17th Carolina Kite Fest was held October 23rd and 24th, 2004 at A Place [...]

Issue 39: Review of Spirit by New Tech

Specifications Manufacturer: New Tech Model: Standard configuration, SPIRIT Wingspan: 80 inches Height: 32 inches Standoff [...]

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

Issue 39: Taipei International Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by Dave “Geezer” Shattuck

2004 AKA Convention – Day 6

Welcome to the last day of our 27th annual convention… The morning brought more seminars [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 5

After finding some much needed coffee, I wandered over to the convention center yet again [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 4

Finally, a day off… After being tied to the sport kite competition fields for my [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 3

Good day, good flight… Workshops continued this morning, while many of yesterday’s competitors were scanning [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 2

Hello and welcome to another day of the AKA Convention!  Today we had the first [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 1

Drum roll please… Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, the American Kitefliers Association annual Convention is [...]

Issue 38: From the Editor

Hello and welcome back for issue 38 of Kitelife! We’re especially proud of this month’s [...]

Issue 38: AKA Corner

Its Convention time again! In just a few weeks, AKA members from around the country, [...]

Issue 38: Dave’s World

We’ve got a seven hour lay-over in Frankfurt. That’s time enough to check email again, [...]

Issue 38: Letters to the Editor

Having been a part of the greater kiting family for so long now, I always [...]

Issue 38: ProFile with the Bay Area Sundowners

When I started flying in August of 1990, I stumbled into my first kite festival [...]

Issue 38: Ben Franklin’s Electric Kite – Part 1

To many kitefliers and to the rest of the non-flying world Benjamin Franklin is considered [...]