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Pura Vida Wildwoods International
Autumn 2007 Volume 29, Issue 3 Sharing The Joy! Kitegang Brings Fun To Africa Miles of Fanø Kiteflying Cars Coming Soon East vs. West: Wildwood and Berkeley CONTENTS 3 Convention Preview 22 Kite Plan 34 Berkeley Get ready for Jon Burkhardt Hamamatsu by a XXX time in does pennants the Bay Ocean Shores Step On It! Flying Blind Is the Audi A5 8 Newport 24 36 Two Oregonians ready for Mas- Rhode Island’s have a real feel ters Individual got big kites in a for kites Ballet? small state Skydance Interview 9 Sakakawea 25 KAPtions 37 The Kite Run- It’s a party on Brad Barnes ner’s Khalid the prairie in looks down on Abdalla shares North Dakota California Hollywood secrets K-Files Sport Kite 12 26 38 Normand Girard Fanø Standings shows us how it’s Eight kilometers The year-end done in Quebec of Danish competitive rankings Voices From Kitegang 52 14 The Vault 28 Bringing smiles 2 AKA Directory Great kites. to the worst 4 President’s Page Delicious pizza. places in the 6 The Sporting Life It’s the Dermers! world 7 Empty Spaces In The Sky 11 AKA News 16 Event Calendar Interview Fighter Kite 17 AI: Aerial Inquiry Kitegang’s Pat- Standings 15 30 17 FlySpots rick McGrann The final 2007 18 Member Merchants and Kim Birks results are in 40 Regional Reports tell all 52 People + Places + Things On the cover: At the Wild- Fightin’ Words woods International Kite Fes- 20 31 Junction tival, Ben Dantonio teaches a A little book Fancy sewing in opens Tom new friend how to fly a quad- the Lone Star line. -
The Golden Age of Kites?)
The Kiteflier, Issue 94 Page 15 Kite for a Purpose (The Golden Age of Kites?) 1 Introduction Bell was a Scottish/Canadian who made his fortune in My purpose in writing these articles is not primarily the his- the U.S.A., Cody, an American who adopted British na- tory of kiting but in the development of kites as we know tionality and Hargrave an English born Australian. them, i.e. to explain and inform about kites seen in the air · While it was important to Cody, Eddy and Conyne that today. their inventions should be patented, Bell (whose wealth cam from the heavily patented telephone) was open with There are as usual diagrams, plans and photos. As before his scientific enquiries and Hargrave would not patent capital letters (PELHAM) means a full reference in the bibliog- anything as he believed knowledge should be free to all. raphy. The layout is: · Again two of the five have a wider fame than designing and flying kites – Cody built the first aircraft in England 1. Introduction and Bell had the telephone. 2. Needs for kites 3. The fliers Usually a period of rapid invention and development is caused 4. Omissions and exceptions by the availability of new materials, new techniques or new needs. In this case there was little change in materials – It is sometimes said that the last years of the 19 th century kites could/would be made of silk or fine cotton using bamboo and the first years of the 20th century were the ‘Golden Age or hardwood right through the period. -
Kiting Magazine Vol 36 No 1
Spring 2014 Volume 36, Issue 1 THE black & white ISSUE Monochrome Photography How To Pick Colors Nightflying Kites Snow Kiting Celebrating 33 years in the sky Since 1980, Into The Wind has carried the best- CONTENTS flying kites in the world. For service, selection and the best guarantee under the sun, we let Frozen Lines KAPtions you fly first class at competitive prices. 2 These aren’t 32 48 Treasure Island reindeer games. An homage to White sand beats It’s snow kiting one of the white snow for above the Arctic greatest reels to winter fun. Circle! ever take up line. 5 Monochrome Debatable 34 Indonesia 50 Black & white Does your A Jersey girl finds photography anchor need a that kiting is an will color your babysitter? international opinion. language. How Color 6 35 52 Transatlantic Works Windless Kiteboarders Understanding No breeze? team up to cross how to pick parts Who cares? an ocean. of the spectrum. Hybrid KAP Trade News 36 8 Regional Reports Taking some of The Kite Trade 10 President’s Page the color out of Association wants 20 Merchant Members aerial photos. you to hear about 22 what happened 24 AKA Directory Into The Wind in Vegas. 25 Empty Spaces In The Sky ® 26 Voices From The Vault Kites & Wind Art 30 Fighting Words Jakarta 31 Sporting Life 9 B & W 38 56 People Places & Things If the weather Some of the 2 • O • outside is 1 • 3 coolest kites On the cover: A little bit of frightful, go to have it made electronic manipulation, Indonesia in two shades. -
KITE LINES / WINTER-SPRING 1996 I KAMC -- Volume 11, Number 4, Winter-Spring 1996
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE WORLDWIDE KITE COMMUNITY w - - WINTER-SPRING 1996, VOL. 11 NO. 4 FOR ALL YOUR KITING NEEDS Made in the UISIAl PACIFIC HEIGHTS, INC. P.O.Box 460729 San Francisco, CA 94146 Tel(415) 550-7155 FLU (41 5) 550- 1942 I I - 4 / KITE LINES / WINTER-SPRING 1996 I KAMC -- Volume 11, Number 4, Winter-Spring 1996 Contents 3 Features Posrcaras rrom ran@/ LU No organization, no schedule, just m-i-1-e-s of kites. First in a series by Dave Gomberg. Synthetic Dog Team: Kites / 25 How did three adventurers ski the Greenland ice cap? With Quadrifoils. By Eric Philips. Kite Patents / 28 A history of kite patents plus how to get a patent. Questions answered by Ed Grauel. Roundtable Mallorca / 32 Seven artists gather at the Miro Foundation for Art Volant to exhibit, fly and talk kites. Their views and manifesto are as creative as their kites. By Tal Streeter. Nepal's Kites: Above the Clouds / 36 Photographs by Stephen C. Lowe. Two views of kiting in Nepal: "Always Time for Kites" Stephen C. Lowe and "Cutting is the Greatest Fun" by Nirmal M. Tuladhar. Skiing the Beach: A Profile of Stan Rogers / 47 The ebullientinventor promotes skis, not wheels behind kites. By Steve McKerrow. My Friends the Diisseldorfers / 52. One of Europe's great kite clubs and how it lives. By Me1 Govig. Letter from the Publisher / 9 Letters / 11 Caribbean Kite Company Design Workshop / 12 1099 N.E. 45 Street The Tekaweya stunter by Michael Graves. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33334 U.S.A.