Kite Lost Kite Found 
I had a homemade tail-less diamond kite that I built using actual bamboo poles for the frame. Like most stories go I was flying the kite at around nine ...

Stunt Kite Self Launch 
If you are like most kite fliers you probably spend the majority of your kite flying time by yourself and like myself the beach sands are not always available ...

Simple Kite Flying Rules - Oops! 
Have you ever done something, only to find out that it would have been much better if you had followed the rules? Well such was this day. I was out at ...

Kite Gone 
In 1995 I was flying a plastic single line delta kite made by Spectra Star. It came with four hundred feet of line on a plastic spool winder. I was demonstrating ...

A Day Flying Kites In Portales 
Well here we go. It was a very nice day here in the "big" city of Portales, New Mexico. I had a bad hankering to loft a kite because the winds were just ...

Kite Night Flight One 
Most kite fliers agree that summer winds are gusty, unpredictable and most of the time no fun to deal with other than just flying light wind floater kites ...

Kites - The Daydreaming Tool 
About six months ago while looking around on the Internet at kite stuff I ran across a good article about the old High Flier paper kites that most of us ...

Rokkaku Snow Kite 
My first Rokkaku kite was just an experiment of mine that was nothing more than wood skewers and lightweight table cloth plastic with an overall size of ...

Kite Tales For Reel 
Like most dedicated adult kite fliers I spent a reasonable amount of time as a young person with the old paper kites from the hardware store. But for ...

My Grandson Loses His First Kite 
Today we had enough wind to test a Dragon kite my grandson got for his 7th birthday. We headed over to the school field to give us plenty of mostly tree-...

Vienna Kite Festival 
After many hours of designing, building, and testing kites the final event for the year had arrived. The Vienna Kite Festival. Held on the banks of an ...

Home Made Box Kite - lost...sorta 
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 
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 ...

Kites for Sunday School 
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 
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 
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 ...

Stunt Kite Flying Bar 
I have a stunt kite called 'Spider' that I have carried around in my car for a few years. This kite stays put together and ready to fly at the drop of ...

THE KITE ATTRACTION 
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....

The Kite Eating Tree 
I remember I was flying a small home-made delta kite in my backyard. Unfortunately for me though, my backyard was covered by tall trees. I take 2 seconds ...

Run Away Kite 
My friend and I decided to fly a kite a few weeks ago. We'd flown kites before and saved all the string. We brought the kite, which had about a 3 foot ...

Sled Kite Making - Kept 20 Kids Happy! 
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 
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 
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 
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 ...

West Coast Park Kites  Not rated yet
A few days ago now, we were at West Coast Park in Singapore for some kite flying. We are on holiday over here for a couple of weeks. My brother-in-law ...