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YOUR Kite Making Stories!

MBK Designs Or Any Other

Kite Making - 2-skewer sled This is where kite making tales of just about any kind can be aired, if you feel you have something particularly interesting or unique to share. The emphasis here is squarely on building and flying single-liners, I might add.

If this is not your 'cup of tea', just look a little further down the side-bar over there on the left. Some of those links go to pages on multi-line kites and sports.

I refer to anyone who has made and flown an MBK design as being an MBK Kite Club member.

I'm just playing with words really, as membership of this club is free and it doesn't entitle you to anything! It's just a loose association of people who have been to this site, made one or more of my designs and successfully flown them. I'm sure MBK Kite Club members are interested in the building and flying experiences of other members! A few of these keen kiters have contributed their stories as well as photos, down below.

You might not have made any MBK kites, but that's OK. It will be interesting to see the great variety of experiences people have had with their home-made kites. One contributor has even written about an experience that has inspired him to get into kite making!



What's YOUR Kite Making Or Flying Story?

Here's just a few ideas...


  • Comments from inspired onlookers, or impressed kids.

  • Bird stories - curious birds circling your kite, attacking it and so on.

  • Did you build a kite or have a flight recently, that really put a smile on your face? Tell us about it :-)

Please enter a short title - what's your story all about?

Stories Left By Other Visitors Here

Click below to read the stories and see photos from various MBK Kite Club members, and other enthusiasts...

Home Made Box Kite - lost...sorta  starstarstarstarstar
I was 9 yrs old flying my box kite in Iroquois Point (Navy Housing on Oahu) in 1966. A KC135 Tanker flew in from the west on final to Hickam AFB and swallowed ...

Cheap Delta Kite, Expensive String  starstarstarstarstar
Had lots of fun with this Delta kite design. Lost several but no great $. Lost one kite over the sea due to bad knot tying - and I am a sailor. I had so ...

THE KITE ATTRACTION  starstarstarstarstar
I live in the southern part of the UK amongst the Water Cress Beds of Hampshire. As I drove down the road towards the nearest town I saw a beautiful sight....

Kites for Sunday School  starstarstarstarstar
The kites we made...
1. 36" Sled Kite. I loved it... kids liked it.
2. 12" Diamond Kite. Good flier! Worked OK in most conditions ....
3. 18" Delta ...

Kite-flying at West Coast Park  starstarstarstarstar
Today is the 3rd time we went for kite-flying at West Coast Park, thanks to my brother-in-law, Tim who made us a kite when he came to Singapore with May ...

2-Skewer Dopero Takes To The Sky  starstarstarstarstar
There's always a certain feeling of trepidation when you've spent a week or more on a project, and then crunch time comes. Especially when 'crunch' is ...

Sled Kite Making - Kept 20 Kids Happy!  starstarstarstar
My wife and I are Leaders for our local scout group. She is The Cub Leader, and has been running the Air Activities badge. As the construction portion ...

Watch your knuckles  starstarstarstar
Grandson and I had built a few Dopero kites to fly, but the weather was either too bad or no wind. So the other day it was about 20 degrees F. with a fairly ...

Maiden Flight of 2- Skewer Delta  starstarstarstar
This is my second MBK kite - the first was a 2 skewer diamond. I wasn't sure how well the delta would fly, as one leading edge spar was more flexible than ...

The MBK Roller  starstarstarstar
No real story to tell... Grand-kids and I had a lot of fun building this Roller. The next one they're on their own while I do the watching.

They picked ...



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Pictures of kites straight from your camera can be uploaded successfully. However, transferring these large raw digital images can take many minutes over a slow Internet connection. Re-sizing the image to around 100Kb or so will still result in a high-quality image on a computer screen. If you haven't done this before, try using Piknik, a free photo-editing service that runs in your browser.

For maximum impact on my site, a photo that's taller than it is wide works best. This way, when my site re-sizes the photo to fit the page, it will appear as large as possible.



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Last updated: 2 Jul 2009



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