Tag Archives: history

History of Sport Kite Competition – pt 3

The American Kite Magazine National Stunt Kite Circuit The American Kite Magazine National Stunt Kite [...]

History and Geometry of Kites

Lesson by Jacqueline Kemp and Alan W. Pritchard What does congruent mean?  What does symmetry [...]

Drachen – Perusing a Kite Archive

Perhaps the following images and details from articles will spur some of you to action.  [...]

History of Sport Kite Competition – Pt 1

The Wanderings of a “Kite Addict” [box type=”note” style=”rounded” border=”full”]Editor’s note: This is the first [...]

Drachen Archives: Japanese Prints

Scott Skinner has one of the most unique collections of Japanese prints in the world [...]

Issue 73: Hi-Flyer kites, An Appreciation

Ask me what I know about Decatur, IL, and I’ll tell you that that’s where [...]

Issue 73: Alox Kites and the Man Who Made Them

In terms of “bang for the buck,” not many toys could equal the Boomer-era dime-store [...]

Issue 72: Drachen Archives: A Collection of National Treasures

It is a bit humorous to talk about “humans” being artifacts and treasures, but such [...]

Issue 71: Origin of the word “KITE”

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

Issue 70: Drachen Archives – German Submarine Rotary Wing Kite

Having attended the High Altitude Wind Power symposium at California State University in Chico, I [...]

Issue 66: Drachen Archives – Gold for the Serious Kite Researcher

On a recent trip to the National Art Education Association convention, held this year in [...]

Issue 62: The Kite That Bridged Niagara

Mighty Niagara Falls, once known only to the local Native Americans, was being transformed. Sightseers [...]

Issue 59: Drachen Archives: Kites in Mexico

Being A Part of Kiting History with the Drachen Foundation Drachen seems to always be [...]

Issue 57: Drachen Archives – A Cody

On October 16, 1908, cowboy showman and kite enthusiast Samuel Franklin Cody became the first [...]

Issue 50: Drachen Archives

The following story tells of an interesting experiment with kites performed by Dr. Alexander Graham [...]

Issue 46: Drachen Foundation Archives

Is a replicate Blue Hill Box kite part of the DF Archive? No. The recently [...]

Issue 45: The Remaking of a Legend

Introduction I had been building and flying what I thought were real Eddy style kite [...]

Issue 42: Dave’s World

I’m honestly not sure how many times I have been to Berck. I was first [...]

Issue 40: AKA Corner

Who has the biggest? The fastest? The longest tail? Kitefliers, like most other people, seem [...]

Issue 39: Ben Franklin Project (part 2)

After collecting all my “evidence” about Franklin’s claimed Electric Kite Flight (see Part 1 – [...]

Issue 39: World Kite Museum

What’s happening at The World Kite Museum (WKM)? Well… Actually, a fair amount! Way back [...]