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Issue 58: Cape Fear Kite Festival (photo gallery)
Editor’s Note : I’d meant to run these pictures last month, but I was mistaken with which festival they were supposed to go with. But they are a good set of shots from Cape Fear last November, so I...
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Issue 58: Townsville Kite Fest
We just finished attending the Coolum Kite Festival in Coolum Beach, QLD Australia, Sep 22-23, 2007 and after 2 days of doing bit of usual tourist stuff around Coolum Beach and a couple of other...
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Issue 58: Dunstable Rev Clinic
Editor’s Note : In what seems like a growing trend lately, large groups of Rev flyers are gathering for weekends of learning and play. With that, we have Fraser McNelly reporting in on the second rev...
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Issue 58: Great Texas Kite Club Fun Fly
It all began in 2006 when a couple of Texas kitefliers suggested we do a fun fly for the Texas clubs at Rockport since we used to have a AKA Competition event here in May and everyone likes to fly...
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Issue 58: Yokohama Kite Festival
25 November dawned on clear skies, oodles of sunshine – - but NO WIND!!!! Not a happy picture for our day in the sun with friends for the annual beach-side kite fly at the Yokohama Kite Club. Four of...
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Issue 58: Wind Party 2007
I’ve been at this a few years now, and I’ve had a chance to learn a few things… First off – there are kite festivals… Yup, the nice small and medium sized regionals… And then some Kite Festivals with...
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Issue 58: Treasure Island Kite Festival
To properly tell a tale, one should always set the tone from when the tale begins. So, let me paint a picture for you. When I left Vancouver, BC to head to what is pretty much the diagonal opposite of...
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Issue 58: Dead Bird Buggy Bash
What does a clumsy land dwelling, single-line kite flying, Yankee- decide to do for Thanksgiving of 2007? Live on a sailboat for ten days off the coast of Galveston, Texas, while attending the dead...
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Issue 58: IGA Coolum International Kite Festival
Last April 2007 while attending the Weifang Intl Kite Festival in China, I met and became friends with Steve Donovan and Big Alan Bayley, both are from Brisbane, Australia. During that time, Steve and...
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Issue 58: Featured Store: Elmer’s Flag and Banner, Kites Too!
Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive of Kitelife and other areas of the kiting community…The retailers you’ll find here are established, proven vendors....
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Issue 58: Empty Spaces: Rick Gardner
Kiting lost a cherished friend recently, Rick Gardner. judging by the posts contained within the Gone With The Wind forum, Rick was a well respected person with a long and varied history in kiting....
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Issue 58: Empty Spaces: Tom Brailey
Last year, when I made my first visit to South Padre Island for their annual festival, I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Brailey in person for the first time. As I sit here again in SPI, I had been...
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Issue 58: Multiple Sport Kite Flying III
MKF Part III is about a learning method to fly 3 Dual line kites at the same time with independent controls. I hope it will be a useful guide. Before you read this technical article, I really...
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Issue 58: Goin’ Across the River to KTAI
Somehow, this just doesn’t feel right… I mean, this IS a “kiting” event, right? And for me that normally means one or two days of packing and a day on the road, then the combined delight of staying...
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Issue 58: REVisions: Clinics and Anniversaries
How about we refer to this installment of REVisions as one of those “variety show” ones I do once in a while. No specific lessons, tutorials or guidance, just a lot of information on some things that...
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Issue 58: Kite Chi from The Coreylama
Seen any good kite movies lately? That would have been a ridiculous statement just a few years ago. About the only kites in movies then were in Mary Poppins, Bridge on the River Kwai, PeggySue Got...
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Issue 58: Drachen Archives – Der Papier Drachen Of Japan
Another easily overlooked gem in the Drachen Foundation’s collection is the 1914 German pamphlet, Der Papier Drachen in Japan. Written for the Linden Museum in Germany by Dr. W. Muller, German Consul...
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Issue 58: Kites… Life.
Our 58th issue, and our second under David Hathaway’s editorship… April will mark our nine full years since Kitelife Magazine was produced by the late Mike Gillard, to fill a void left by the demise...
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Issue 58: Dave’s World
I keep hearing that the good festivals are slipping away and that few gatherings seem to be growing up to replace them. But all it takes is a couple of people willing to take the risk and make the...
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