KITE FESTIVALS ARE GETTING BETTER AGAIN The first international kite festivals I went to- in the 1970’s (whoops showing my age a bit here)- were exciting events. We flew our kites with real passion back then- or maybe it just seems that we did because it was [...]
RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL The ‘something more dramatic’ that was to have been my subject this month is delayed on account of unsuitable weather- that is, it’s been kite flying as usual. But my ear to the ground tells me that no-one is breathing down our necks or [...]
Pilots and Lifters (skirt lifters that is) (A passing wind to get your attention, that last bit). The first America’s cup in 1851 was an unequal contest between the schooner ‘America’ and a fleet of the best of British- and to tilt the playing field even further, [...]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Slum-boys-cut-Kiwi-stars-kite-in-Ahmedabad/articleshow/7255581.cms Check this out AHMEDABAD: This was Peter Lynn’s 600th international kite festival. Known among the world s kite manufacturers, Lynn, from New Zealand, was flying two inflated tiger-shaped kites, each worth 400 US dollars, on the bank of the Sabarmati river, when a puny paper kite came from [...]
An annoying problem finally identified and cured Ever since I’ve been making large ray shaped soft kites (from 1987) they’ve been afflicted by a tendency to fall off to one side or the other. And it’s not just my ram air inflated ray type kites that have [...]