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Kite Lines Is the Comprehensive International Profiles: Searching for the Real Will Yolen / 16 Journal of Kiting and the Only Magazine of Its by Valerie Govig Copyright © 1980 Aeolus Press. Inc. Reproduction in any form, in whole or in part, Contents is strictly prohibited without prior written Volume 3, Number 2, Spring-Summer 1980 consent of the publisher . Kite Lines is the comprehensive international Profiles: Searching for the Real Will Yolen / 16 journal of kiting and the only magazine of its By Valerie Govig. An attempt to set the record straight kind in America . It is published by Aeolus Press, Inc ., of Baltimore, MD, with editorial on an American figure of mythical proportions . offices at 7106 Campfield Road, Baltimore, David Slays Goliath with his Patchwork Special / 21 MD 21207, telephone : (301) 484-6287 . By Malcolm G . Russo. A boy's perseverance gives pause to Dad. Kite Lines is endorsed by both the International Variations on a Theme: The Tetrahedrals Reconsidered / 22 Kitefliers Association and the American Kite- fliers Association . Kite Lines is on file in the By Bevan H. Brown. The potential permutations of the tetra libraries of the National Air and Space Museum, explored in an instructively systematic way . Smithsonian ; the -National Oceanic and Atmo- Kite Aerial Photography: Who's Done It and How / 24 spheric Sciences Administration ; the National A brief history of kite-lifted picture-taking accomplishments Geographic ; and the University of Notre Dame's Sports and Games Research Collection . with a list of current-day practitioners, by Valerie Govig . Everything I Know (so far) about Kite-Lofted Photography / 25 Founder: Robert M . Ingraham By Garry Woodcock . A well-thought-out system that Publisher : Aeolus Press, Inc . costs little for an inventive scavenger . Editor: Valerie Govig Associate Editor: Richard F . Kinnaird, Jr . Notes to the Would-Be Kite Aerial Photographer / 28 Business Consultant : Kalman Illyefalvi By Robert S . Price . Solid advice on the basic options as Circulation/Reader Services : Judith Faecher learned from the school of hard knocks . Design and Mechanicals : Weston Phipps Rules and Regulations of the First Kite Aerial Photography and Cathy Pasquale British Correspondents: Ron Moulton Contest of the Cerf-Volant Club de France / 28 and Clive C . O . Rawlinson My Method of Photography by Kite : 100% Reliable / 29 By Stanley E . Crinklaw. Perhaps the cheapest solution and Editorial Advisory Panel: Ray Holland, Jr . Guy D. Aydlett A . Pete Ianuzzi therefore one of the best ways to start . William R. Bigge Robert M. Ingraham Preset Intervals for Photography by Kite (a very fancy frill) / 30 Bevan H. Brown Domina C . Jalbert By Dale Fleener . A circuit for pulsing your far-away camera, Wyatt Brummitt Nat Kobitz with added comments by Curtis Marshall . Wood Ellis Arthur Kurle Paul Edward Garber Curtis Marshall, M.D. Behold! Antique Kites / 32 Melvin Govig Robert S . Price By Robert M . Ingraham . Some kites of yesterday Edwin L. Grauel John F . Van Gilder found by George Hurtado, and speculation on their value . Gary Hinze Will Yolen For the Record : The World's Largest Kite Is Flown in Japan / 38 Kite associations and clubs are located around By the Shirone Kite Association with background on how the the U .S . and the world . Kite Lines works for incredible effort was made by David M. Checkley. and with all of them and maintains an How to Bridle a Giant Japanese Kite (without getting tied updated file on them . Write for information about your nearest group . up in its 48 lines) / 40 A photo sequence of the Shirone method Subscriptions to Kite Lines : One year (4 issues), 59 .00 ; two years (8 issues), S 17 .00. by John F. Van Gilder . 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Closing Dates for advertising, articles and news are : Feb . 20 for Spring; May 20 for But in addition to all that he is a lover of kites with the gift Summer ; Aug . 20 for Fall ; Nov. 20 for Winter. of inspiring others to the same love . You will know it when you Postmaster : Second class postage paid at Balti- read his writing in "Letters" (page 8). And you will know it more, Maryland . if undeliverable, please send from merely gazing at this issue's cover photo, address change Form 3579 to Kite Lines, also the work of Jacques . 7106 Campfield Road, Baltimore, MD 21207 . Letter from the Editor Post Scr ipts Kiting has always had the special advan- right in the middle of my suspended judg- WHY THE SPRING-SUMMER ISSUE? tage of multiple appeal-as an art, science, ment, my conflicting tendencies toward We decided it was better to reflect reality sport, craft, study, escapade-whatever . It the spartan and the hedonistic . I believe and name this issue logically by its time of is many things to many people . But if we are misguided to forever sacrifice all publication . However, it does not count there's any one attribute of kiting that's of today's frivolities and pleasures in as two issues in your subscription term . more important right now in mid-1980, it order to pursue some distant good in all Subscribers will automatically receive an must be its environmental acceptability . its doubtful glory. Life is to be enjoyed . "additional" issue . We are still fighting It doesn't take any fossil fuels to fly a That is an imperative, clearly a part of the the good fight to improve our schedule, kite. Even to make one is not much of a grand design, or there would be in this and we really do think we'll win! kilowatt drain, depending on whether you world no roses, no puppies, no birdsong, use a sewing machine, band saw or other no sunsets, no kisses-and no kites. (Ah, OUR NEW NAME : AEOLUS PRESS, INC. powered assist . In addition, kites are non- yes, the carpe diem theme always did As of April 18, 1980, polluting in flight . hold ineluctable appeal for me .) Verve Enterprises, Inc . But this is not the time to be smug, On the other hand (the struggle for (publisher of Kite my fellow kiters. Because we all know balance is visible), shouldn't we be respon- Lines), legally changed very well, in our quietly guilty hearts, sible about the future, for ourselves and its name to Aeolus that kiting can lead to the use of oil . That's our children? Isn't the welfare of our great Press, Inc . There is because open spaces for kiteflying are country important? Well, then, what can nothing peculiar go- limited in most urban areas and the result we do? The only answer I've found (and ing on here . The sole is the necessity, for many of us, of driving it's imperfect) is to fly closer to home . reason we have made to a flying site . Try out the thermals over that parking this change is to better Now, as an incurable patriot, I want to lot at your nearest shopping center on a reflect our nature as a publisher specializ- do my best to waste no fuel, and I've Sunday afternoon. Give a schoolyard a go . ing in kite texts . Aeolus, the Greek God tried to figure out how to cut back on Consider befriending the person with the of the Winds, gives us the appropriate nonessential driving . Is kiteflying a "non- best roof for kiting in your neighborhood . metaphor. Although we have published essential" activity? The question hits me Decorate the sky that's over you . V. G. only Kite Lines so far, in the future we anticipate putting out books, monographs and other delights for the kiteophile . It will be our pleasure to serve you this way under the fitting new moniker of Aeolus. SEATTLE TO HOST THIRD ANNUAL The Washington Kitefliers Association will host the third annual meeting and festival of the American Kitefliers Association on October 3, 4 and 5 in Seattle, WA . The format of the meeting promises to be similar to the first two, but Seattle's loca- tion as the gateway to the Orient is ex- pected to bring many visitors from the Far East.
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