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Description DIEPPE: New sightings! by Pierre Fabre | BIKE & KITE DREAMTOUR of Western America by J.J. Toepfer | VERDUN’s last Rendez-Vous? | Who can fly the TUKKAL FIGHTER? by Tania Berger | SKY GALLERY: Delicacies by Philippe Cottenceau | TRACTION GETS WET! Power kites and modified surfboards by Dean Jordan | LAST GOODBYES: Mel [...]

Description JAPAN: Old, new & glorious by Valerie Govig | KITE COLOR: New techniques with a spray can by Kurt Eby| BRRRRR! Skiting for frozen fun – from the Antarctic expert Eric Philips | The FLOW FORM: From chute to kite, how the soft kite classic came to be by Kathy Sutton | SKY GALLERY: [...]

Description Shining kites of Malaysia by Pierre Fabre, En Fest for Børn in Copenhagen Denmark by Mel Govig, Still flying – Brookite by Paul Chapman, The Importance of being grounded by George Peters, Postcards from Uchinada by David Gomberg, Kite experiences around the world, new traction foils, a three-line stunter, two-or-four radical hybrid and a [...]

Description 20th Anniversary Issue! Cover Story The Tosa Dako of Japan, likely ancestor of the delta kite, article and story by Pierre Fabre. Features: A guided kite tour of India (by Tal Streeter; the buggy scene at Berrow Beach, England (by Zöe Harris and Andrew Beattie); more proof that George Lawrence used kites to lift [...]

Description Cover Photo: Grand National Champion kite at the AKA convention, Tanna Haynes’ “Lady of the Clouds,” photo by Valerie Govig. Features: Kites in museums around the world, including Davis, CA (by Stuart Allen), Haifa, Israel (by Yael Bat Adam) and Indianapolis (by Bret Waller and Tal Streeter); the rescue of some historic Gibson Girl [...]

Description Cover Story: The Isegran Dragefestival in Fredrikstad, Norway, a party of kite sharing, article and photos by Mel Govig. Features: Kite fishing in Indonesia, by Eiji Ohashi; the Kite Festival at Berck-sur-Mer, France, by Craig Wilson with photos by Wilson and David Gomberg; St. Elmo’s Fire on kite lines, by Jan Fischer; a Kite [...]

Description Cover Story: The kites of Nepal, by Stephen C. Lowe and Nirmal M. Tuladhar, with beautiful photos by Lowe. Features: (new series) Post cards from David Gomberg: report from Fanø in Denmark; reader response to the question, “What Is a Kite?”; mushing in Greenland behind kites, not dogs, by Eric Phillips; Ed Grauel on [...]

Description Cover: “The Chicago Bulls” of Curaçao (cover photo by Mel Govig) and a roundup of international festivals: Simon Freidin in New Zealand, Mel Govig in Curaçao, Pierre Fabre and George Peters in Israel, Mel Govig in Italy and Valerie Govig in Canada. Features: A chronology of kite art exhibits around the world; Valerie Govig [...]

Description Cover Story: The spirit of Dieppe, with Simon Freidin at the 8th Biennial International Kite Festival, including cover photo of Aimé Barsalou. Features: Simon Freidin at the Lawrence Hargrave Centenary Fly in Australia (with Helen Bushell photos); Drakfesten ’94, the kite fly in Stockholm, by István Bodóczky with photos by Beppe Arvidson and Marton [...]

Description Cover Story: The kites, art and ideas of Joan Montcada of Catalonia, Spain, as explained and photographed by the kitemaker. Features: Mel Govig at the first-ever kitesailing regatta, a part of the Dove Sofia II Vento festival at Ostia, Italy; Pierre Fabre at the new Shirone Giant Kite and History Museum, Japan, with a [...]

Description Cover Story: Kite speed on the water, with Pierre Fabre looking into the Wipicat system of French sailor/inventors Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux. Features: Discovering the kites of South America, with Mel Govig in Colombia and Pierre Fabre in Brazil; a Buggy Bonanza, including Michèle Velthuizen-de Vries on the 1st Buggy Boogie Thang at Lake [...]

Description Cover Story: The Great Southwest Kite Camp Caravan by George Peters, cover photo by Pierre Fabre of his own giant Playsail. Features: Spellbinding kites by the North Sea, text by Kari Cress and Mel Govig, photos by Kari Cress, plus Fanø by Peter Whitehead; the AKA convention in Seaside, OR by Valerie Govig; the [...]

Description Cover Story: Kites in the shadows of the pyramids, with Pierre Fabre in Cairo, Egypt. Features: István Bodóczky of Hungary, professor of asymmetrical kites, a profile by Valerie Govig; shocks bumps and thrills in India, with Jon Burkhardt and Frits Jansma; Mel Govig on the 68th Sac City (IA) Kiwanis Kite Tournament, the oldest [...]

Description Cover Story: The soul-lifting kites of Guatemala, an All Saints Day tradition, article and photos by Michael P. Tourigny. Features: Pierre Fabre on an auction of celebrity-made rokkakus to raise money against AIDS in France; making a family of fighter kites by Ed Alden; Simon Freidin on the 2d West Java International Kite Festival; [...]

Description Cover Story: Three days in May at Hamamatsu, Japan, with George Peters on the festival of all fighting festivals. Features: Painting kites from a can, by Chris Dunlop; kite power comes of age, a guide to safety, skills and equipment in traction kiting by Nop Velthuizen; a fistful of fighter kites by Mel Govig [...]

Description Cover Story: Kiting in Europe: The Coloriamo I Cieli in Castiglione del Lago, Italy, by Valerie Govig, plus side trips by Mel Govig to – Barcelona’s Euro-Olympic Kite Festival and Le Cervoling in Le Touquet,` France, and Joel Scholz at the Dove Soffia it Vento (Where the Wind Blows) festival in Ostia, Italy; Features: [...]

Description Cover Story: Profile by Pierre Fabre of French kitemaker André Cassagnes, regarded as “the father of French kiting.” Features: Mel Govig at the 3rd Biennial Thai International Kite Festival; George Peters at an impromptu “Natural Fibers Kite Festival on Tarutao Island in Thailand; Bill Tyrrell on testing the atmosphere over Christmas Island with kites; [...]

Description Cover Story: The 1991 AKA convention in Jacksonville, FL, with cover photo by Valerie Govig of Bobby Stanfield’s winning kite. Features: Anne Sloboda on painting ripstop; Marianne Nielsen on Ventomania in Gubbio, Italy, with Pietro Livi photos. Departments: Letter from the Publisher: measuring the recession’s effect on kiting; Whars New: Kites: the Rotating Box [...]

Description Cover: The great kites of Japan, as chronicled in a 12-stop tour by Pierre Fabre. Features: How to fight a rokkaku kite battle, by Rick Kinnaird and the Kite Lines staff; a Simon Freidin journal: from the Cervoling Kite Festival in Le Touquet France, the Kite Society of Great Britain Convention and Weymouth International [...]

Description Cover Photo: The 1,200-seam cellular kite of Italy’s Silvio Maccherozzi. Features: David Gomberg on kite pin collecting; Tal Streeter on the whistling kites of Nantong, China; William G. Wing on estimating angles of flight; David G. Dobbs on a 4th of July kite memory. Departments: Letter from the Publisher: on the environmental aspects of [...]