Just saw a ghost! 
This kite loss story takes place at Rodeo Beach in Marin County. I had my wife, god son Jake and our Norwegian Forest Cat, Buddha, with us. We had a ...

A Lost Kite Can Be A Good Thing 
We were at a club fun fly. Beautiful day with lots of local people joining us with their discount store kites.

One family had a plastic, princess delta ...

North Vegas 14m 
Went out with a friend with my new North Vegas 14m earlier today around 5pm after work. Was really excited and also quite annoyed to find that the wind ...

RUNAWAY KITES! 
Never thought it would happen...

On the maiden flight of the Flock of Swallows pulled up by a Triangulation Delta... a huge gust of wind came along....

Box Kite Disaster 
When I was around 10 years old, I received a box kite kit as a present. This was in the early 1960s, when kits like this required a certain amount of exacting ...

A Very Efficient Simple Kite 
When my little girl was three years old we bought her a simple kite (ram air) with the Teletubbies printed on it.

One fine but brisk day a family outing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delta Airlines 
When I was a youngster, my brother and I were flying a handsome purple and blue delta wing kite on the beach in Folkestone (at the south east corner of ...

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 ...