અંક 45: પેસિફિક બીચ પતંગ ઉત્સવ
It all started off so well-organized, peaceful, and relaxing. Little did we know what we were in for. We got to Pacific Beach on Thursday evening, waited out the Friday morning fog by having breakfast...
View Articleઅંક 45: Harvest Lights Festival
The weather gods smiled (પ્રકારની) on the first Harvest Lights Festival September 17. The new event was hosted by Pegasus Pairs Stunt Kite Team (John and Elaine DeRoover Cosby) and the Kazoo...
View Articleઅંક 45: Devonport Kite Festival
This year a record crowd estimated to be in excess of 7,000 people attended the Devonport kite festival. Most attending flew kites either singularly or as part of a family or social group. The...
View Articleઅંક 45: વ્હીડબી ટાપુ પતંગ ઉત્સવ
Fall had set in, marking it time for the Whidbey Island Kite Festival. This is truly a robust festival with single line displays, dual line displays, and hot tricks. It is a very well orchestrated...
View Articleઅંક 45: 18th Annual Carolina Kitefest
The days leading up to the Carolina Kitefest were somewhat unsettling. First the weather called for rain all day Saturday. Then when that forecast went away, the weatherman was calling for 15-20...
View Articleઅંક 45: Niagara International Kite Festival
The Niagara Festival began on a cold and rainy Friday, October 7th, held through the 9th. Competitors from all over the world lined both sides of the Canadian and American border for a re-enactment of...
View Articleઅંક 45: Taipei International Kite Festival
થી 2000 Jeanette & I have been fortunate enough to be invited to the Taipei County International Kite Festival, but one way or another circumstances have conspired to prevent us from attending. So...
View Articleઅંક 45: Kite Bugs
Someone came up to Ronda at Fort Worden 2001 and said “I found these at a garage sale and thought you could use them”. These, were two tea strainers soldered together and adorned with red, white and...
View Articleઅંક 45: Flying Nun Kite Plan
I’m not sure exactly how old this kite design is, but I imagine it’s at least as old as Sally Fields’ television sitcom from the sixties. It’s a great kite for kids’ kite making projects, because it...
View Articleઅંક 45: Sweet Kite Poetry
Release Breezes riffle soothingly – Through my hair, across my skin. Soft sand beneath my sandaled feet, Warmth that seeps into my bones. Puffy clouds adorn the sky, Glistening sun upon the waves, No...
View Articleઅંક 45: Tangents w/out Trivia
Yep, you read that right, a total ban of kite flying, and kite sales by the Supreme Court. BUT it isn’t the US Supreme Court I’m talking about it’s the Supreme Court of Pakistan. There are times when...
View Articleઅંક 45: Kites for Kabul
For orphaned children in Afghanistan, there is no hope of ever having a true family. Afghan’s judicial system and Afghan family law (which is based on the strict Islamic Shari’s law) both ban adoption...
View Articleઅંક 45: The Original Eddy Kite
Based on the Eddy Kite Patent No. 646, 375 issued on March 27, 1900. Introduction Back in the mid to late 1800′s there was a quest for scientific information about our earth. Obtaining it from...
View Articleઅંક 45: The Remaking of a Legend
Introduction I had been building and flying what I thought were real Eddy style kite designs for a few years. I had made a number, mostly of wooden dowels and simple materials such as drafting paper...
View Articleઅંક 45: પ્રોફાઇલ: ટ્રીસ્ટન અંડરવુડ
At only 9 years of age, this young man from Canada has already been competing against seasoned pros several times his age since 2003, and holding his own. Whether it’s Hot Tricks at the AKA Grand...
View Articleઅંક 45: પુનરાવર્તનો: Getting a Handle On it!
તેથી, with this issue, I’ll wrap up some of the basic things newish Rev flyers may want to know about. Keep in mind that there is as many differing opinions on all of this as there is quad flyers,...
View Articleઅંક 45: પ્રોફાઇલ – Stephanie Hiebert
As one of the true “workhorses” in modern sport kiting, Stephanie Hiebert is seemingly always on the run and notoriously hard to get a photo of, for that very reason. Whether she’s working with the...
View Articleઅંક 45: Kites at the US Open
High Flyers Flight Team coordinated the kite demonstration program scheduled for Sunday, September 11th in Flushing Park. Our journey to the U.S. Open started with a call from David Gomberg. He was...
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