Officers President's and Board Corner Conside ring the fa ct The AKA NEWS has been growing in 1984 OFFICERS ANO DIRECTORS AT LARGE that 300 of the size and now has a slick co ve r EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE approximate 1,300 with a co lo r picture plus two Chet Snouffer President 340 Troy Road AKA me mbers attend full-page co lo r adve rtisements. Miller S. Makey, Sr. Delaware, OH 43015 2557 Clark Drive (614) 363-4414 the convention , it A ways and me ans study and Grove City, OH 43123 seems appropriate analysis is needed to dis co ve r (614) 871-0727 Gale Winnett 486 Haymore Avenue, N. that the "Pre si- ways of obtaining mo re adve r­ First Vice President Worthington, OH 43085 I Michael J. Keating (614) 888-4128 dent s Annual tising and greater inco me . 2283 Bristol Road Report" prepared for Columbus, OH 43221 (614) 451-4870 the Annual Meeting The Safety and Ethics Committee BOARD OF of AKA , at the Convention, be attempted to become active and Second Vice President PAST PRESIDENTS Gilford Millard publis hed here for the total viable. To da te, however, this 4508 SI. Anthony Lane W. D. (Red) Braswell co mmittee has not been success­ Columbus, OH 43213 10000 Lomond Drive me mb ership. The following is a Manassas, VA 22110 condensa tion of tha t re port . ful in de ve loping an officia l Third Vice President (703) 361-2671 Warren Bailey policy or code of safety. Box 450 Bevan Brown 2859 W. Street, Rte. #37 6636 Kirkley Avenue It ha s been a privilege to be Delaware, OH 43015 McLean, VA 22101 A chairperson has been appointed (614) 369-4153 the AKA President for the year (703) 893-3886 1984. It has been an in terest­ to head up a Competitions and Corresponding Secretary Robert Ingraham Betty K. Makey Festiva ls Committee , to de ve lop 315 No. Bayard Street in g and challenging year. I hope 2557 Clark Drive Silver City, NM 88061 standards for AKA Competitions . Grove City, OH 43123 you will agree that it has been (614) 871-0727 This Committee needs additiona l John F. (Jack) Van Gilder a year of co ns ide ra ble accom­ 1925 Walnut S.W. Recording Sect'y/Treasurer me mbers to work with the Chair­ Seattle, WA 98116 plishment . Margie Winnett (206) 938-0550 man on this project. 486 Haymore Avenue, N. Worthington, OH 43085 One of the firs t is sues to co me (614) 888-4128 A closely re lated Committee was REGIONAL DIRECTORS to the attention of the new Executive Committee was an established with the charge to REGION 1: New England REGION 8: Mountain 1) compile a lis t of the cla ime d CT, NH, MA,ME, RI, VT AZ, CO, fD,MT, NO, NE, apparent lack of understanding Carl Poehler NM, NV, SO, UT,WY AKA kiteflying records and 2) de ve l­ 9 Vine Street Brian Volkman of the General Liability Melrose, MA 02176 The Kite Store Insurance and how it re lated to op standards and require ments 1415 Larimer Square for kiteflying re cords that are REGION 2: New York State Denver, CO 80202 the "sanctioning" of kite Jerry Gorsuch events . to be officia lly re co gnized by 380 Grimsby Street REGION 9: Southwest Staten Island, NY 10306 AR, KS, MO, OK, TX AKA. (212) 351-7461 Michael G. Freeman 505 N. Tyler Road A great de al of time was spent REGION 3: Penn-Jersey Apartment 1401 studying the policy and the AKA was given the opportunity to New Jersey. Pennsylvania Wichita, KS 67212 Michael Carroll (316) 722-2643 va rious questions being ra ised. purchase a box of origina l P.O. Box 215 Plainsboro, NJ 08536 REGION 10: Pacific NW The in surance ca rrie r was asked ma teria ls co lle cted for a his ­ (609) 799-6398 AK, HI, OR, WA, BC tory of kites in Japan: photo­ Carl Krafft to help cla rify the is sues . A REGION 4: Mid-Atlantic 1220 38th Aven ue E. statement of our cla rification graphs of Japanese ma ster kite DC, DE, MD, VA, WV Seattle, WA 98112 ma kers; drawings and photographs George Fohs (206) 323-1734 is now in the hands of the 5211 Pembroke Avenue Regional Directors. It is of kites , and original ma nu­ Baltimore, MD 21206 REGION 11: N. California (301) 483-4776 Monterey County and North assumed that this statement is scripts . The Executive Commit­ Leland Toy tee vo ted to purchase the box , REGION 5: South 1044 Sanchez Street not fina l and not de finitive ; it AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, San FranCiSCO, CA 94114 place one copy of the book in SC,TN will undoubtedly need to be John Parker REGION 12: S. California re vised in the not too dis tant the AKA Arch ives and sell some 6109 Rosecrest Drive South of Monterey County of the other ma teria ls in the Charlotte, NC 28210 Tony Cyphert future . (704) 553-1996 4621 North Avenue #1 San Diego, CA 92116 (Continue d on next page) REGION 6: Northeast Central (714) 297-2722 As a dire ct re sult of our study IN, KY, MI, OH Judy Neuger REGION 13: tnternational of the is sues ra ised about the 4500 Chagrin River Road Garry Woodcock Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 1055 Shawnmarr Road, #68 du ties and re sponsibilities of Mississauga, Ontario Regional Dire ctors , some imme di­ REGfON 7: Northwest Central Canada, 15H 3V2 ate steps were taken to imp ro ve lA, IL, MN, WI Publis he d Toby Schlick the ability of eRgional Dire c­ in even-numbered R.R. 1, Box 205 mo nths by Fish Creek, WI 54212 tors to be more helpful to AKA me mbers in the Region . The American Ki Directors now receive copies of tefliers Associa tion 113 We st Frank Cover Photo co rrespondence pertaining to lin Street Baltimo re , MD their re spective Regions ; they 21201 (301) 752-3320 have been provide d with packets of info rmation and they have Distrib uted free of Rick Kinnaird's giant silver air-inflated been provide d supplie s of sta­ ch arge to AKA me mbers . kite makes an effort at becoming the tionery. War/d's Largest Stunt Kite at the Ocean Bob In gra ha City Kite Festival. Membership in AKA has continue d m-Founder AKA Mille r in creasing and now totals about S. Makey , Sr. -President Cartoons by G. R. 1300 me mbers rep re senting 49 Osborne Thomas C. states and 20 fo reign countries . Shaner-A dmin . Coord. Ca rol T. Shaner-Acting Editor need and can establish permanent housing of the archives, where Write mem Readers bers and authorized public can utilize the materials and AKA can provide control, securi­ hitch, or a pair of them as a ty and insurance. bend . The Transom Knot can be useful for making a pair of After months of perseverence, spars fast to each other at policy and procedure sta tements right angles--provided the spars have been written for AKA sanc­ Re: AKA NEWS for April/May, I'd are of circular section--but I tion of kite events, chapter like to refer you to the bul­ can never remember the knot, club affiliation and annual letin of the Nouveau Cervolist simp le though it is, without convention sp onsorship. A Be Ige, No . 4, Jan./Feb . '83. referring to a bo ok, so I rarely statement has also been pre­ An article there extols the use it! The most satisfactory pared, outlining the duties and "Uni-knot" found in the knot I know for adjusting the responsibilities of Regional Fisherman's Digest, Chicago, tension of a bracing line or the Directors . A "Memorandum of 1977 . This was tested by Paul like is what I think is called Understandings" has been Vanderdouckt and Mi chel Tarbuck's Knot. Oliviero' developed for the guidance of Dusariez, and compared with Olivieri has a sketch of it in persons considering sponsoring un-knotted line on the one hand the bulletin of the AlA, Vol 1, an AKA annual convention. and line tied with an "ordi­ No. 3, pg. 93. I've found that nary", but unspecified knot, on it seems to work best in bra ided The Committee, established to the other. These are the line of more than 80 lb. develop a program for the selec­ results: breaking-strain; for some reason tion of persons to be honored it doesn't seem to hold well in with the "Steve Edeiken Memorial 1) With no knot: the line broke very thin braided line, although Award", has completed its job at a traction of 97 kg (+/- 44 it will hold in thread. and nominations for the first recipient of this award have lb . ) (Continued on next page) been received . 2) With the Uni-knot : the line broke at a traction of 94 kg Although it was a publicized (+/-42 1/2 lb.) goal of the Ex ecutive Committee, President's no plans have yet been made for 3) With an ord inary knot: the AKA Convention '85. line broke at a traction of 63 Corner kg (+/- 28 1/ 2 lb.) AKA , now 20 years young, is experiencing distracting growing AKA Annual Auction at the pains and anxiety provoking There's a lot of difference Convention. between 65% and 97% of original adolescence. There are yet unresolved issues of: line strength! The AKA Archivist, Bob Price, was consul ted concerning the hobby vs.