Bright, white, dry, high. That’s how Eric Muhs of Seattle characterizes the South Pole, which he visited for two weeks late last year. A teacher in Seattle, Muhs was...
Arriving at Curt Asker’s house in the south of France at night, in the dark and rain, a visitor sees a small, white kite flying over the town. “The kite bids you...
After 24 hours of travel and just two hours rest at the my hotel in Bombay, my friend Mital and I are away to meet Dilip Kapadia of the Golden Kite Club. Sound, smell, and...
A group of imaginative kite enthusiasts in France has for some years banded together as an association known as Au fil des Vents. The group is based in Pierrefeu, Reillanne,...
A member of the British Midlands Kite Fliers took up the matter of public reaction to kite flying in an Internet news group posting on the rec.kites site. “Can I have a...
Paul Garber, late curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, was perhaps best known in the kite world as the inventor of the highly...
By the late l950s, Domina Jalbert had involved himself in just about everything possessing the possibility of getting up off the ground into the sky. His professional life was...
As part of its role in increasing and diffusing knowledge about kites worldwide, the Drachen Foundation maintains a study collection of kites, kite artifacts, and publications...
