Kite Lines Is the Comprehensive International Winners! in the Cerf-Volant Club De France's Kite Aerial Journal of Kiting and the Only Magazine of Its Kind in America
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Contents Copyright © 1981 Aeolus Press, Inc. Reproduction in any form, in whole or in part is strictly prohibited without prior written Volume 4, Number 1, Summer-Fall 1981 consent of the publisher . Kite Lines is the comprehensive international Winners! in the Cerf-Volant Club de France's Kite Aerial journal of kiting and the only magazine of its kind in America . It is published by Aeolus Photography Contest / 22 Press, Inc ., of Baltimore, MD, with editorial See and decide for yourself if you agree with the judges . Full-size offices at 7106 Campfield Road, Baltimore, reproductions of the first and second place winners, Tom Pratt of MD 21207, telephone : (301) 484-6287 . Scotland and Garry Woodcock of Canada, plus reduced-size prints of Kite Lines is endorsed by the international Kitefliers Association : and is on file in the the three runners-up . With details of the systems used and background libraries of the National Air and Space Museum, on the conducting of the contest by the Club . Smithsonian ; the National Oceanic and Atmo- Mastering Nylon, or-Everything about Nylon that I've Learned spheric Sciences Administration ; the National from Experience and Soaked Up from my Friends / 25 Geographic ; and the University of Notre . William Tyrrell, Jr., with illustrations by Cathy Pasquale . Dame's Sports and Games Research Collection By G An eight-page special pull-out feature that answers many of the Founder: Robert M . Ingraham technical questions you're likely to have about rip-stop and how to Publisher : Aeolus Press, Inc . work with it in kitemaking . With source list . Editor : Valerie Govig Associate Editor : Richard F . Kinnaird, Jr . Masters of Nylon : the Marshalls-Father and Son / 33 Business Consultant : Kalman Illyefalvi By Valerie Govig. How one family has incorporated the kite passion Circulation/Reader Services : Judith' Faecher into their lives with spectacular success. Design and Mechanicals : Weston Phipps and Cathy Pasquale Addendum : Alternate Bridling / 35 International Correspondents : Jacques and By Curtis and Gray Marshall . A method for easy comparison of Laurence Fissier ; British Correspondents : the effects of different bridling geometrics . Ron Moulton and Clive C . O . Rawlinson Big Compass for Big Kites / 36 Editorial Advisory Panel : By Wayne Schmidt . How to make a compass for those big circles Guy D . Aydlett A. Pete lanuzzi or arcs you want in your kite . William R . Bigge Robert M . Ingraham Bevan H . Brown Domina C . Jalbert Wyatt Brummitt Nat Kobitz Paul Edward Garber Arthur Kurle Melvin Govig Curtis Marshall Edwin L. Grauel Robert S . Price Departments Gary Hinze John F. Van Gilder . Ray Holland, Jr Will Yolen Letter from the Editor / 6 Kite associations and clubs are located around With an account of the Maryland Kite Society's Kite Retreat in the U .S . and the world . Kite Lines works for Harpers Ferry, West Virginia . and with all of them and maintains an Letters / 9 updated file on them . Write for information about your nearest group . What's New / 12 Reviews of the Waldof Magic Box Kite, three rollers from Vertical Subscriptions to Kite Lines : In the U .S ., $9.00 for one year (4 issues), $17 .00 for two Visuals, the Peter Lynn Baby Dragon and Hyperkites and Trlby stunters . years (8 issues) ; in Canada and Mexico : $10 .00 Also a book review of Malcolm McPhun's Kites . for one year, $19 .00 for two years ; in all other Profiles : The Old Man and the Sea-Francis Vilbe, 81, countries, $11 .50 for one year, $22 .00 for of La Guerche-de-Bretagne / 18 two years . 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If mailing Including a report on Larry Cuttitta and the great New York City label is wrong, please correct it . kite protest and vindication . Advertising rate sheet and information is News from Here & There : International / 52 available' upon request. Classifieds / 56 Contributions and correspondence are always Swap Shop / 56 invited . Enthusiasts who contemplate sending substantial material should request our guide- lines for writers and photographers . Return of unsolicited material cannot be guaranteed unless accompanied by ample stamps and envelope, self-addressed . Accuracy of contents Cover of Kite Lines is the responsibility of individual contributors . Diverse views presented in Kite Gray Marshall's strikingly pieced Parafoil gives fresh artistry to Lines are not necessarily those of the editor, staff or advisory panelists . the great Jalbert Parafoil design . The scene is Fort McHenry National Closing Dates for advertising and articles are Monument and Historic Shrine, Baltimore, a location favored for 8 weeks before publication . weekend flying by members of the Maryland Kite Society . Postmaster: Second class postage paid at The open spaces next to the harbor water offer good winds at Baltimore, Maryland, and at additional entry almost any time (See more about Gray and his father Curtis offices, if undeliverable, please send address . change Form 3579 to Kite Lines, Marshall on pages 33 to 35 .) 7106 Campfield Road, Baltimore, MD 21207 . Photograph by Theodore L . Manekin . Letter from "the Editor This letter might be called Travels of the of paperfold kites . Mel gave a rousing at Bolivar Heights . It was a busy, eager Editor Continued. It was a full summer, speech on kite "training," full of practical social scene, but the kites didn't fly at highlighted by the Maryland Kite Society's advice and comments on the group dyna- first . By retying them at longer intervals, kite retreat in July at Harpers Ferry, West mics of flying kite trains . the fliers finally saw the train happen- Virginia. It was just for us kitefliers, that As time ran out, Bob Price's talk on and happen high . Meantime, another little was the idea-to get out of town and his hollow-spar system for box kites was bird train of Mel's went up and down on share kite inspirations . My husband Mel postponed till the next morning. Likewise, its own over the soft meadow grass and a had suggested it to the Society and with voluble Bill Tyrrell, prepared to fill in if variety of fine kites took turns in the sky, help from co-organizers Arnold Simon necessary, hardly spoke a word . (Bill's on including a very large Streeter rokkaku in and Carolyn Staples, it was an event for tap for the next retreat .) A wordless exem- red nylon . The backdrop of purple moun- the memory books . plar, Bill Bigge started and finished one of tains at Bolivar made all the kites lovelier . All the elements were favorable : sunny his Janus kites during the weekend . One by one, the friends started to leave . weather, magnificent scenery, good food Clif Bokman, a sparkling 75-year-old, It was all one could stand to say goodbye . and-most of all-wonderful people . told us all how to make the "barn door" Afterwards, the "high" lingered on, the Hilltop House in historic Harpers Ferry three-stick kite that he had learned from comments kept coming back . Tal Streeter has a breathtaking view overlooking the his grandfather in 1914. On Sunday morn- said, "Not many people see their dreams confluence of the Shenandoah and ing, everyone made one, hoping Mel's in daylight." Len Conover said he felt Potomac Rivers . You can, in fact, fly a notion that they could be flown in train "just like a kid again-and being allowed kite from the promontory in front of the would be realized . to throw paper airplanes in class! Can't hotel, if you wish, but Bolivar Heights There was a bit of unwanted excite- wait till the next one ." Park was scouted as the spot for the real ment Sunday when Bill Rutiser, stepping flying on Sunday . Friday and Saturday backwards while trying out a kite on the were nonstop indoor kitemaking and kite talking sessions . We came up only occa- sionally for air-and food . P.S. to subscribers : If you were alert, you A word about that. Dixie Kilham's old may have noticed a small change on your stone hotel is well-known for its big din- mailing label . It now shows the volume ing room with long tables and groaning and issue number of the last copy in your board with home-style food-just about Kite Lines subscription term . You can as your Aunt Mabel might have done it . check this against the current issue num- Not a weekend for dieters! ber to learn your status . For example, An adjacent building ("the lodge") this issue is Volume 4, Number 1, as had just been remodeled . There we held printed at the top of the Contents page . our sessions, at all hours and in complete If your label says the same, this is the last privacy, without interfering with the hotel .