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Kites in the Classroom
’ American Kitefliers Association KITES IN THE CLASSROOM REVISED EDITION by Wayne Hosking Copyright 0 1992 Wayne E. Hosking 5300 Stony Creek Midland, MI 48640 Editorial assistance from Jon Burkhardt and David Gomberg. Graphics by Wayne Hosking, Alvin Belflower, Jon Burkhardt, and Peter Loop. Production by Peter Loop and Rick Talbott. published by American Kitefliers Association 352 Hungerford Drive Rockville, MD 20850-4117 IN MEMORY OF DOMINA JALBERT (1904-1991) CONTENTS:CONTENTS: PREFACE. ........................................1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION. .3 HISTORY - KITE TRADITIONS - WHAT IS A KITE - HOW A KITE FLIES - FLIGHT CONTROL - KITE MATERIALS CHAPTER 2PARTS OF A KITE. .13 TAILS -- BRIDLE - TOW POINT - FLYING LINE -- KNOTS - LINE WINDERS CHAPTER 3KITES TO MAKE AND FLY..........................................19 1 BUMBLE BEE............................................................................................................... 19 2 TADPOLE ...................................................................................................................... 20 3CUB.......................................................................................................................21 4DINGBAT ........................................................................................................................ 22 5LADY BUG.................................................................................................................... 23 6PICNIC PLATE KITE.................................................................................................. -
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Creative Design Creative Design
Number 50 The newsletter of the South Jersey Kite Flyers Volume #3 - 2004 him; he had two grandchildren, Christopher and Empty Place in the Sky ––– Ed Sarah. Spencer By Betty Hirschmann Each of us who knew Ed will have our own memories of him, and will deal with his passing in our own manner and time. If you get the chance, fly a kite and release it into the wind so On April 9, 2004, five days short of his 73 rd birthday, Ed that Ed can enjoy the experience too. Spencer passed away in his sleep. His son Scott and I were at a Good Friday Kite Fly in Lewes, DE, waiting for Ed to arrive. For those of you who wish to get in touch with Nancy, she is at When we got home that night (about the Manorcare Nursing Home Room #153, 1412 Marlton Pike 10:00 pm) there was a message on our – Rte 70, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034. answering machine asking that Scott call his sister Ellen. When Scott called, he ============================================ learned of the death of his father. Ed touched many people, in many ways. What I remember is that he could be Creative Design found out on the flying field with a smile by Dave Ciotti on his face and a chuckle in his heart. It seemed that he had no problems, at least What you are reading is the second draft of this narrative. This that’s the face he tried to show most of article was originally written at the 2004 the time, but life was not always what it MIKE in Ocean City, Maryland, at the appeared to be. -
A Decade of Kiting Memories by Peter and Sarah Bindon
THE In this edition Spring 2020 INSIDE: A decade of kiting memories by Peter and Sarah Bindon Also in this edition: ALSO IN THIS EDITION: Thailand and Malaysia Kite Tour Kite Competition – Mike Rourke wins again! KAP made easy with Alan Poxon Sarah Bindon takes the Questionnaire Challenge John’s new kite ...tails Alicja from Poland kite workshop Annual General Meeting NEW Chairman – Keith Proctor NEW Membership Secretary – Ian Duncalf A message from Keith; At the 2020 AGM I gave up the role of Membership Secretary that I Ian had held since 2011/12, and handed it over to Ian Duncalf who I believe is much better qualified to improve and update the system to allow online membership application and Keith with outgoing renewal. I took on the role of chairman but I’m still not sure how this Chairman Len Royles all came about! So this is my first official post in the NKG magazine. This year I think will be described as an “annus horribilis” for the Len stood down as disruption of everyday life as we know it. I fear that for a lot of people, Chairman after six life will never be the same again. We have never experienced this years but will continue before. But if we all follow the guidelines about staying at home, to play an active part washing hands, keeping your distance from others we can pick up in the Group by taking our kite-flying again, possibly later this year and if not then next year. the childrens’ rainbow Good luck and good health to you all and your loved ones in the delta kites to festivals. -
The Kiteflier
THE KITEFLIER ISSUE 66 JANUARY 1 996 PRICE£1.75 MAKE YOURSELF A WINNER WITH T~E C~.A.IN" "WVIT~ N"O N"A.1VIE A.IR"'QDRN WE'RE SECOND TO NONE RRISTOL KTT'£S ICIT'E 97 Trafalgar Street STaR£ BRIGHTON l b P itville P lace BN14ER Cot ham HiJJ T e i/Fu 1ST FOR CHOICE BRISTOL 01273 676740 BS66JY 1ST FOR SERVICE Tel: 0117 974 5010 1ST FOR QUALITY Fax: 0 117 973 7202 THE CHAIN WITH A COMPETITIVE EDGE Chain With No Name Members Roll of Honour includes: Team Member of Airkraft, 1995 World Cup Wmners KOSMIC Team Member of:XS, UK Masters Class Team KTT'£S 153 Stoke Team Member of Airheads 16 1 Ewell Road Ne win gt.on C h u rc h SURBITON Stree t Leader of Phoenix, 1995 UK National Pairs Winners KT66AW LONDON Top Placed UK Flyer at Tei/Fax: N16 OUH 0 181 390 2221 Tei/Fu:: London Arena Indoor Competition 0 171 275 8799 Power Kite Specialists Individual Masters Class Flyers Kite Festival Organisers Winter Sport Kite League Organisers WHO ELSE CAN OFFER TIDS MUCH EXPERTISE? WA.YON UIGU 6 Harris Arcade KTT'£S READING 3 Capuc hin Yard RGJ IDN WE FLY THEM AND FLOG THEM Churc h Street Tei/Fu:: HEREFORD 01734 568848 Te l: 01432 264206 Dear Reader Welcome to the first issue of 1996. With this issue members will find a copy of the 1996 Kite Society Handbook, with a comprehensive list of Kite Retailers and Kite Groups. TABLE OF CONTENTS It is at this time of year that we review the cost of producing The Kiteflier as well as the general costs of Letters 4 running the Kite Society. -
Manja) Injury: a Rare Etiology Seen in Two Cases 1Vaibhav Bagaria, 2Amit Nemade, 3Nilesh Joshi
JFAS (AP) Vaibhav Bagaria et al 10.5005/jp-journals-10040-1037 Case RePoRt Achilles Tendon Rupture Secondary to Kite String (Manja) Injury: A Rare Etiology seen in Two Cases 1Vaibhav Bagaria, 2Amit Nemade, 3Nilesh Joshi ABSTRACT while running on an incline or jumping. The unusual Achilles tendon is the strongest and the thickest tendon of the direct injury as a result of the kite string during kite flying human body. Due to its superficial location and stress, it has festival season is a very rare cause. These kite strings to face due to loading, the tendon is susceptible to injuries called as Manja (or Manjha) employed for kite flying in and ruptures. This is aggravated due to the precarious blood Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan are abrasive strings supply in the region and also age-related changes that occur in the tendon. Of the specific causes age-related and steroid usually gummed, colored and coated with the powdered induced tendinosis and sports injuries are the commonest glass. The management of this injury apart from the mechanism of injury. Kite playing is a very common sport in routine repair of the tendon also involves additional the Indian subcontinent, which involves the use of a string steps especially in regards to the infection prevention (manja) often coated with powdered glass to fly the kite. Many grievous injuries are reported due to its use especially in two and assessment of neurovascular status in acute cases. A wheeler riders. However, to the best of our knowledge a kite case series of two unusual cases—one a delayed presen- thread injury causing Achilles tendon tear due to direct impact tation and one acute presentation of similar injury are has so far not been reported. -
Kiting Summer 2007 Volume 29 Issue 2
Modegi & Co. In Waasshhiinnggttoonnashington Sleepover at Tookkiioki CCaammppCamp TTTuurrurnniinnggning JJaappaanneessee!!Japanese! National Kite Month NNAABBXX::NABX: VVVegas Buggying Ocean Shores Convention John Freeman’s Rockaway Bikini Festivals: Guam, France, China, IIttaallyyItaly,,, TTTexas, DC, Maryyllaanndd,,yland, OOrrOreeggoonnegon CONTENTS National Kite Kite Plan Cervia 33 Month 22 John Freeman 32 Everything’s Whole lotta fly- wants you to molto bene in ing going on have his bikini the Italian skies North KAPtions Berck-sur-mer What happens in American 5 Carl Bigras looks 24 34 Buggy Expo down on Canada France, doesn’t stay in France! Hi-jinx in the low desert Lincoln City Zilker Park Weifang Today a kite fes- 8 Indoors 25 Still flying in 36 tival, next year On stage and Austin after all the Olympics indoors in these years Oregon Sporting Life Guam’s Convention Throw your own Kites & Wishes 10 26 Preview 38 regional party Ray Bethell has It’s a XXX get- his shirt off on a together in beach again Ocean Shores K-Files MIKE/MASKC Smithsonian Amidst the 12 Glen and Tanna 27 Things are ducky 40 52 Haynes are on the beach in cherry blossoms, wrapped up in Ocean City, MD the Japanese kitemaking triumph Voices From Ft. Worden The Vault 14 Fancy sewing in 28 Wayne Hosking the Northwest is swarmed by 2 AKA Directory children 4 President’s Page 6 In Balance 7 Empty Spaces In The Sky MAKR 11 AKA News Fightin’ Words 20 29 Fancy sewing in 16 Event Calendar 20 Building an the Midwest 17 AI: Aerial Inquiry American 17 FlySpots tradition 18 Member Merchants 41 Regional Reports 52 People + Places + Things Toki Camp History Lesson 21 Greg Kono 30 On the cover: The Roby Pa- The journals of moves in with goda, built by Bermuda’s Philip Philippe one of Japan’s Jones, shadows the Washington Cottenceau greats Monument. -
The Fighter Kites of Korea
The Fighter Kites of Korea In many countries throughout Asia, flying a kite usually means fighting with a kite. In India, Japan, Thailand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malaysia, and Korea, kite battles fill the skies at seasonal tournaments and festivals—and even in the streets after school. Fighters compete to cut each other’s kites out of the sky. Kites climb, swerve, and dive, trying to avoid the deadly friction from a competitor’s line coated with finely crushed glass or diamond dust. Just how popular is this sport? Perhaps seven of every ten of the billions of kites in Asia are fighter kites. And which do international competitors think are the toughest and fastest fighter kites in the world? The fighter kites of Korea. The Korean fighter kite is the country’s signature kite, the bang-pae yeon, a rectangular, bowed “shield” kite with a hole in the middle of the sail. Master kite makers cut the hanji (paper) sail a centimeter or two wider at the top than the bottom so that the kite will be rectangular after it is bowed. The frame uses five bamboo spars—one each across the top and the “waist” of the kite, a “spine,” and two diagonals. The spine and diagonals are carefully tapered toward the bottom, and the spar at the waist is very thin so that it will bend easily in the wind. The kites are made in different sizes, with larger kites flown in heavier winds. The width is usually two-thirds of the length, but some fighters prefer the speed and maneuverability of a width four-fifths of the length. -
A Brief Introduction to North American Fighter Kites and the Line Touch Game
A Brief Introduction to North American Fighter Kites and the Line Touch Game “North American style” fighter kites are small (~ 20” x 18”) single-line kites that you can maneuver by controlling the line tension. They are a smaller, faster, high-tech version of the traditional fighter kite flown in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and many other places. Traditional Indian fighter kite (back side). Bamboo North American fighter kite (front side). Carbon spine and bow, tissue paper sail. fiber spine, bow and stays; polyfilm sail. Flying a fighter kite is simple, but it takes practice to get good at it. When you pull on the line, the kite flies forward in a straight line. The harder you pull, the faster the kite goes. When releasing line, the kite spins. So, to make the kite go to the right, you wait while releasing line until the nose is pointing right. Then, start pulling. It’s all about the timing and knowing how your kite behaves when given slack. Pulling line into a pile at the flier’s Slipping line. The kite will be Kite in a low, horizontal pass. feet. The kite will be moving, spinning, perhaps hovering Attacking a kite to the left? perhaps to a high position. low over the sand. Escaping from one to the right? North American fighters have evolved to perform well in the line touch game. Fliers start ~10’ apart with kites in the air, away from each other in a neutral position, with about 100’ of line out. The starter (who may well be one of the two fliers) starts the point by yelling “Top” or “Bottom”. -
Types of Stunt Kites
www.my-best-kite.com Table of Contents Introduction.............................................................................................................................6 Chapter format........................................................................................................................................ 6 A Tip For The Frugal............................................................................................................................... 6 STUNT KITES........................................................................................................................7 Delta, Diamond, Parafoil or Quad?.........................................................................................................7 Types Of Stunt Kites............................................................................................................................... 8 The Peter Powell Stunt Kite.......................................................................................................12 Classic Steerable Diamond Kite...........................................................................................................12 'Cayman' Peter Powell Stunt Kite.........................................................................................................12 A History: The Peter Powell Stunt Kite..................................................................................................13 Dual Line Parafoil Kites..............................................................................................................15 -
Understanding Climate Change from Below, Addressing Barriers from Above
Understanding climate change from below, addressing barriers from above Practical experience and learning from a community-based adaptation project in Bangladesh M Sajid Raihan M Jahedul Huq Nana Gerstrøm Alsted Manja Hoppe Andreasen Year of publication: December 2010 First published by: ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) Copyright © ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) All rights reserved ISBN: 978-984-33-2252-5 For a full list of publications or a catalogue please contact: ActionAid Bangladesh House #8; Road #136 Gulshan-1, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh [email protected] www.aab.org/pubs Citation: M Sajid Raihan, M Jahedul Huq, Nana Gerstrøm Alsted, Manja Hoppe Andreasen (2010) Understanding climate change from below, addressing barriers from above: Practical experience and learning from a community-based adaptation project in Bangladesh ActionAid Bangladesh The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and limited to experiences gathered from an action research project, Assistance to Local Communities on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh, funded by the Embassy of Denmark, Bangladesh, and do not necessarily refl ect the views of ActionAid and the Embassy of Denmark. Edited by: Frances Ellery Cover Design by: Intent Design Printed by: GraphNet Limited Contributors M Sajid Raihan is ActionAid Bangladesh’s Manager of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction. He has a Masters in International Development: Development Management and Administration from the Institute for Development Policy and Management, School -
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