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Box 2274 Pothecary Corner 4 Gt Horkesley Colchester Fano Report 7 CO6 4AY Tel: 01206 271489 Kites and Horses 9 Email: [email protected] Bits and Pieces 10 http://www.thekitesociety.org.uk Event Reports 15 Editorial For Sale 16 Dear Readers Ground Anchor 16 You may remember in the last magazine we asked for feed- Kite Plan 17 back regarding the type of workshops you would like if we ar- ranged them for Weymouth this year. Well the response was Wrights and Kites 18 under whelming with just three people responding. So we conclude that this sort of activity is to be left at the local level. Kite Plan 19 Margate 20 2008 looks set to be a good kiting year with a number of new events taking place—let us hope the weather is kinder this Hamptons Kite Day 23 year! 2008 is also the 20th anniversary of the Revolution kite and there are plans in place for a celebratory series of events New Events 24 with lots of Rev fliers from around the world planning to at- tend Portsmouth and Bristol. More details as we get them. New Kites 25 Some of the older readers may remember the Blackheath Kite Festival which use to take place over Easter. It is early days Weymouth 2008 26 yet but there is a chance that the festival will be resurrected— Seen on EBay 27 watch this space. Aerodyne 28 Membership Information Roman Candle 36 The main vehicle of communication between members is the quarterly publication ‘THE KITEFLIER’. published in January, April, July and October of every year. ‘THE KITEFLIER’ contains news of forthcoming kite festivals, Events List 40 kite retailer news, kite plans, kite group news and a comprehensive events list. 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Page 4 The Kiteflier, Issue 114 Pothecary Corner A Craftsman at Work Why colour? – Well, this year, none other than twice I recently World Champion, seven times European Champion acted as a and producer of some of the best of British kites lead- courier (I ing the world in technology and design - Mr Carl saved Robertshaw www.kiterelateddesign.com – will be join- them the ing our main sponsors, Kiteworld, in awarding a kite, postage) worth £175.00, the FURY 85 of your own colour choice for some as the prize. guys in South- Yes – that’s right send in your own kite related picture ampton emphasizing COLOUR as the theme and you could who had win a Fury 85 in your very own colour scheme. ordered some Ben- As well as helping with their share of the prize kite – son Deep Kiteworld will be boosting the total to around Space £200.00 by including a set of quality lines so that the kites and wanted to be sure of getting them in time winner will be prop- for the Christmas holidays. How pleased they were to erly set up. If you get photos of Tim in the final stages of construction of win, and are a nov- the actual kites they now own. ice or just want some help to im- Tim now very much enjoys life in Cornwall since mov- prove your flying ing from the Bradford area a few years ago and still then you can always hand-builds his kites in the purpose built workshop pop along to one of next to his house. our practice sessions or “Better Flying The Deep Space is currently one of Tim’s best sell- Days” – but then ers – and so it should be after all the time he took you don’t even have getting the design just right. There have been only a to enter the compe- couple of minor modifications since I reviewed the kite tition to do that – in this magazine one of which was that the spine is just contact us now in Skyshark instead of Structil. To be honest, at through our web-site. my level, you would be pushed to tell the difference but I suppose a spare would be easier to come by if Remember the colour theme is kite related, so it can ever I trod on it or something (well Skyshark do spon- be a single line kite, two, three, four or as many lines sor us). and kites as you like – it can be power kites or, it can even be a ‘kitey person’ doing something clever or We still have the Deep Space, among others, Tim even silly – not that any of us kite flyers do anything gave us to review, so if you need to be convinced of silly of course! how well it performs come over and give it a go. If The top of the range fury 85 retails in all the good kite you are on line you can find out more about Benson stores at around £175.00 and we hope to have one of kites at www.bensonkites.com the top European flyers, Chris Goff, joining us throughout the festival season, showing how to do some of the tricks and precision this amazing kite is A prize worth £200.00? easily capable of performing. Last year we ran a photo competition where people sent pictures of Marilyn and me to our website. We also advertised it around all the events that we at- Full details will be on our web-site soon www. tended and received around sixty or seventy entries, closeencounterskites.co.uk so what are you waiting with the eventual winning photo by Ann Girling from for, get that camera clicking and enter as many times Southampton, being picked out by Michael of www. as you like – It’s free – and you could easily win a top Kiteworld.co.uk taking the prize - a Prism Hypnotist of the range sport kite. complete with lines and the Prism, “Freestyle Pilot” DVD. Break down without breaking it How many of us have a tale to tell about putting a rod This year we are going to do a different photo compe- through a sail on one of our kites or worse still – tition. If you want to join in the rules are simple. The someone else’s!! - I managed to do it to a North photo must be taken by yourself, it must be taken af- Shore Radical the first time it came out of the bag. ter January 1st 2008, it has to be kite related with the Since we have so many kites to put up and down theme of “Colour”. when we attend the various events up and down the country, I soon found myself coaching our helpers in The Kiteflier, Issue 114 Page 5 Pothecary Corner the ‘safer way’ we prefer this task to be completed. the way to the centre “T”. Now you can pull this one There is a video of me (soon to be updated) at with a away as hard as you like with out any fears of quick guide and lots of views of the top of my head – trundling off to your favourite trader and buying some rather misleading I thought as it looks as if I am going patching tape. bald! The reason I said It’s less dangerous to attend to the left erecting the kite as hand side first is long as you remember because we to hold the rods on the always assemble end, close to the kites which have a leading edge or centre ferrule that passes piece to which you are through the centre attempting to insert.