Issue 74: Frank Mots Kite Festival Gallery
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View ArticleIssue 74: Antelope Island Stampede Gallery
Photos by Kevin Bayless, Takako Barresi, Dan Owens and David Robinette The post Issue 74: Antelope Island Stampede Gallery first appeared on KiteLife®.
View ArticleIssue 74: Washington State International Kite Festival Gallery
Photos by Takako Barresi The post Issue 74: Washington State International Kite Festival Gallery first appeared on KiteLife®.
View ArticleIssue 74: Rev Mega Fly World Record @ WSIKF
What do you do when you have a huge expanse of beach and a large amount of Rev flyers in Long Beach, Washington? Why, you hold the biggest Rev party the world has ever seen! And what a party it was, a...
View ArticleIssue 74: Fighter Kite World Cup @ WSIKF
The 2010 Fighter Kite Line Touch World Cup took place on Friday, August 20 at Washington State International Kite Festival (WSIKF) in Long Beach, Washington. The weather outlook for Friday had been...
View ArticleIssue 74: Washington State Intl Kite Festival (WSIKF)
Back to the Washington State International Kite Festival (WSIKF) one more time. Yes, it’s the third week of August again, which means WSIKF (Pronounced “Wiss-Kiff” by the locals). So – even though I’ve...
View ArticleIssue 74: Berkeley Kite Festival
When the Berkeley Kite Festival started, such events were most often either dedicated to single or multi-line (stunt kites). Organizer since the BKF’s inception 25 years ago, Tom McAlister’s goal was...
View ArticleIssue 74: Frank Mots Kite Festival
The 32nd Annual Frank Mots Kite Festival at Veterans Park at Milwaukee Wisconsin’s Lakefront, held the weekend of September 11th and 12th, was hosted by Scott Fisher of the Gift of Wings Kite Store and...
View ArticleIssue 74: Antelope Island Stampede
The Antelope Island Stampede is a community event held on Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The event is owned by the Davis Area CVB and is registered as a nonprofit, started originally...
View ArticleIssue 74: Buggy Newz: Life’s a Beach!
This worked well but as I got closer to the coast the rain started, as expected, and as I arrived at the campsite by 4.00pm, I was surprised at how many folks were already there. As the rain had been...
View ArticleIssue 74: Featured Store: G-Kites
In the summer, people strip down to just one sweatshirt on Oregon’s beaches. The water is too cold for swimming. But located on the 45th parallel – exactly half-way between the Equator and the North...
View ArticleIssue 74: KAP900 PUSH: A Chance to Win Big!
Win a limited edition KAPing rig, Nokia N8 devices & $1000! Readers of Kitelife will be familiar with the Nokia Push project after several guest columns from Push hacker and KAP lover, Ricardo...
View ArticleIssue 74: The Story Behind the Photograph
This is a photograph of Jeff Howard at El Mirage in 1998, and I have seen it around the internet for many years now, but do you know the story about how this photograph came about? Andrew Beattie had...
View ArticleIssue 74: REVisions: A Retrospective
30 issues. No, that’s not the amount of emotional baggage I carry around on any give day, it’s the number of Revisions columns I have written since signing on with Kitelife as a writer. Initially, I’d...
View ArticleIssue 74: A Novice Position in the Mega Grid
100 Rev kites in a 10 x 10 stable grid formation…. That was the plan, but it came up 36 kites shy yet still broke the world record of 55 by a not-so-shabby margin of nine kites. There is no doubt that...
View ArticleIssue 74: Build a D-Stix Tetrahedral
When I was a junior in high school I became obsessed with the geometry of the fourth dimension. I later turned that obsession into an award-winning science/math fair project, but at 16 it was just a...
View ArticleIssue 74: The Green Giant Kites
From RB Toys 1971-1990 Promotional kites are an ancient business, basically as old as the business of manufacturing inexpensive kites as toys for kids. I’ve seen promotional diamond kites from Wilder...
View ArticleIssue 74: Kite Comics
This issue marks the second set of kite cartoons we’ve had made for Kitelife Magazine, courtesy of Dan Thompson (Funny Cartoonist)… These two were just made “off the cuff”, but we’d like to start...
View ArticleIssue 74: News Reel
Afghanistan: “As I stood on the roof of the Ministry of Interior headquarters last evening in Kabul, waiting to make the trip across town to an Afghan National Security Forces and Independent Election...
View ArticleIssue 74: Drachen Archives: DOTA @ Burning Man
My 2010 Burning Man experience started with a full-fledged white-out of blowing dust and sand. Entering the Black Rock City with the Department of Tethered Aviation’s (DOTA) set-up crew (about 15...
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