About the Webmaster

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Hi,

My name's Tim Parish, and I have a degree of interest in just about all things that fly. Ever since childhood in fact. It all started with a Primary (Elementary) School book about the Wright brothers and their Flyer.

From there, I took an interest in all kinds of flying hobbies. Paper planes, small balsa wood gliders, home-made plastic diamond kites, shop-bought Indian kites and probably other stuff I've forgotten. Then I moved up to balsa and tissue models, control line models and eventually radio-controlled aircraft. A mixture of powered and unpowered model aircraft.

That was the modelling side. Full size flying also seemed very inviting, so I saved up some money as a teenager and went flying with the local gliding club. Soloed at age 15, while we were living in Alice Springs. The 'Red Centre' as tourism brochures like to call that area of Australia. Eventually, that led to becoming a fully qualified gliding instructor with the university gliding club down in Adelaide, South Australia.

Since then, I have dabbled in paragliding and hang gliding as well. Try clicking the graphic below. ;-)

I still live in Adelaide. Now with a wife and very young son who features in one or 2 pics on this site! Small kids grow up so quick. The flying log on this site will probably document his growth quite well.

Connections With Kiting

While writing this, an interesting thought came to me. Four other flying activities besides actual kite flying involve kiting a flying object up into the air. They are...

• hand-towing a free-flying model glider into the air,
• bungee-launching a radio-controlled model sailplane into the air,
• operating a V8-powered winch with a full-size sailplane on the end of the cable,
• flying a paraglider - these aircraft are the direct descendants of the parafoil kite!

So maybe I did more kiting than I realized!

OK, so much for flying interests.

Why A Kite Site?

Flying kites, in particular, was a fairly small part of my overall flying experiences. So why start a kite site? Well, as I explained on the home page, we as a family are embarking on a new journey of discovery. Apart from covering our website expenses through ads and so on, we're getting into kites as a family adventure!

We aim to get a very broad experience of kiting by chasing after records of various kinds. Personal records that is, who cares about world records when you're on a tight budget... These records will require different kinds of kites! Hence you can look forward to lots of variety in the months and years to come, as we document our adventures.

All starting with a 5 dollar baby sled kite. It's going to go a long way from there... We'll end up with a family diary, memories, achievements and a shed full of kites.

That's all I have to say about the webmaster...

Get Inspired

It's not all about us of course. We hope you find the information you are looking for, on this site. Maybe even get inspired to take up some form of kite flying. Or if you're already into it, perhaps trying some new type of kite.

Feel free to contact me if you want to comment on anything you found on this site. Or let us know how you're getting on with your own kiting adventures!

Last updated: 31 Jan 2008