Contents Volume 4, Number 2, First Quarter 1982 "I Must Tell You about the Venice Pier Kite Festival . ." / 23 Kite Lines is the comprehensive international journal of kiting and the only magazine of its By Dale Fleener . Who showed up this year, and why it's so wonderful . kind in America. It is published by Aeolus New Department! Best of Show : Kite by Karin Verschoor, Press, Inc ., of Baltimore, MD, with editorial Photograph by Jim Glass / 26-27 offices at 7106 Campfield Road, Baltimore, MD 21207, telephone : (301) 484-6287 . The first in a series of full-color photographs of our readers' kites to Kite Lines is endorsed by the International appear in Kite Lines. We start off with Karin Verschoor's exciting Kitefliers Association and is on file in the "Madras" Parafoil, flown in a spectacular setting in the Rockies. libraries of the National Air and Space Museum, Kites at the Sky Art Conference / 36 Smithsonian ; the National Oceanic and Atmo- By Mel Govig . Photographs by Mira Meshulam . The sky as canvas, spheric Sciences Administration ; the National Geographic ; and the University of Notre laboratory and dream machine is explored at MIT-and kites are there . Dame's Sports and Games Research Collection . But "Friendship is Always the Best Part," and the weekend's biggest Founder : Robert M. Ingraham thrill is showing Charles Goumas, blind kiter, how to fly a fighter kite . Publisher : Aeolus Press, Inc . Fighter Kites : How to Pick and Wield Your Weapon / 38 Editor : Valerie Govig By Mel Govig. Basic principles, choices, armaments, techniques, Business Consultant : Kalman Illyefalvi Circulation/Reader Services : Anneke Davis games, etiquette-and the "Easy Learner Fighter" to make yourself . and Judith Faecher The Authentic India Fighter Kite / 41 Design and Mechanicals : Weston Phipps By Gordon Teekell . Photographs by Dinesh Bahadur . and Cathy Pasquale `Kite Clouds' of India's Utran / 42 International Correspondents : Jacques and Laurence Fissier ; British Correspondents: By Valerie Govig, talking with Mukesh Shah . Photographs by Ron Moulton and Clive C . O. Rawlinson Bhanu Shah . A celebration of kiteflying like none other . Editorial Advisory Panel: Robert M. Ingraham A Scheveningen Album /44 Guy D . Aydlett Domina C . Jalbert Photographs and captions by Jacques and Laurence Fissier . William R . Bigge Richard F. Kinnaird Bevan H . Brown Nat Kobitz Wyatt Brummitt Arthur Kurle Paul Edward Garber Curtis Marshall Melvin Govig Robert S . Price Edwin L. Grauel Tal Streeter Departments Gary Hinze G. William Tyrrell, Jr. Ray Holland, Jr . John F . Van Gilder Letter from the Editor / 7 A. Pete lanuzzi Will Yolen Letters / 9 Kite associations and clubs are located around What's New / 12 the U .S . and the world . 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News from Here & There : International / 48 Advertising rate sheet and information is For the Record / 52 available upon request . Classifieds / 58 Contributions and correspondence are always 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 Cover envelope, self-addressed . Accuracy of contents Kite Lines is George Peters likes to pose for his own camera wearing his kites of the responsibility of individual contributors . Diverse views presented in Kite as "wings." For him, kites are no less a serious art form because of Lines are not necessarily those of the editor, the whimsical ways he uses them . Peters kites are often to be staff or advisory panelists . Closing Dates for advertising and articles are found in galleries, particularly those near his home in Hawaii . B weeks before publication . But he enjoys them more when exhibiting them in the sky . Postmaster : Second class postage paid at (See more about George Peters on pages 34-35 .) Baltimore, Maryland, and at additional entry offices. If undeliverable, please send address change Form 3579 to Kite Lines, 7106 Campfield Road, Baltimore, MD 21207 . The Mechanics and Equilibrium of Kites Our office hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p .m. Letter from (1897), Garber's Boy Scout kite manual EST weekdays; weekend hours variable . (1931), Choe Sang-Su's The Survey of Please call first at 301/484-6287 . We are Korean Kites (1958), calendars, catalogs, always at your service . children's story books containing kites, newsletters, magazines (including old the Editor Scientific Americans and the May 4, 1962 KITE RESEARCH LIBRARY Some of the dreariest problems in IS NOW OPEN Life with Will Yolen's famous article, P.S. "How I Got So High on Kites") and such the world have kept us from attaining the oddities as The Gospel Kite, a testament- schedule we all want for Kite Lines. We like 32-page book from Boston's Sabbath are not going to recite them here or make School Society, 1845 . In spite of all the apologies, which we detest . This little literature we have, though, there are still semi-apology is the last of this kind of a few more titles that we're looking for . thing we plan to print . In the course of work here at Kite Lines, we stuff shelves and files with information about kites and kiters. We also collect rare kite books and memorabilia . This collec- tion had been stashed in various cupboards and bookcases. Finally we have put every- thing together in one place, in a large new bookcase next to an easy chair and lamp . Voila!-a Kite Research Library is born . With the addition of a photocopier later on, we expect to offer better services than ever to the kite community . Mean- while, students of kites are welcome to visit us to browse, read and make notes . We've acquired nearly every out-of- print kite book, and some of our treasures are Woglom's Parakites (1896), Marvin's Letters FLORIDIAN FLIERS My wife, who has been casually "hanging string in the air" for years, introduced me to this airy avocation with a 45-foot Mylar® dragon . When I told her that I had read that a kiting genius, Domina jalbert, lived in Boca Raton, she promptly drove up to him, introduced herself and purchased a J-7.5 Parafoil. That set the bait and since then I've been as firmly hooked on flying as one of Dom's J-50s is hooked in the air . A local sailmaker supplied us with pro- digious amounts of rip-stop scraps to make pounds of sleds, deltas and a seven-foot double Conyne dubbed the "Enterprise ." Every time there is wind, I'm out flying . I've coerced several of my scoffing friends (who tell me kites are for kids) to come along . Then I let them try to hold onto a J-15 in 20 m .p.h. winds. The next time they don't feel so silly holding onto my Soaring Wing, Peter Powell or six-foot delta . Incidentally, for a recent kite demon- stration sponsored by the Delray Beach Kiwanis Club, I thought that a largish delta flying at 1500 feet would be pretty nifty . I called the Federal Aviation Ad- ministration . Their representative of this General Aviation District, Chuck Smith, asked the dimensions and weight (seven- foot span and a few ounces) and replied that I could fly as high as I like, as long as I informed the local Flight Service Station . As it turned out, I was kept busy by six Rainbow stunt kites, so I didn't get to try out this new, nonstandard variation of FAA regulation . Chuck Norris Fort Lauderdale, FL GAINS AND LOSSES IN ENGLAND My eldest son Leo and I, on holiday in Scotland, celebrated the Royal Wedding by climbing Ben Nevis, at 4,400 feet the highest point in the British Isles, and flying my new frameless Soff-Tee-Kite from the top .