• Guatemala. Forty-foot 'stained glass windows in the sky.' (pgs. 3-11)
• Guatemala. Documenting the giant kites flown on Day of Dead. (pg. 12)
• Guatemala. A lexicon. (pg. 13)
• Guatemala. If you want to go, some travel tips. (pgs. 13-14)
• Hebron. Teaching kiting in a dangerous war zone. (pgs. 15-17)
• World Kite Museum. New building is planned at Long Beach, WA. (pgs. 18-20)
• Arctic. Scientist Mike Jensen shows kites have research validity at North Pole. (pg. 21)
• L.A. Times. Flights of fancy by the public. (pg. 22)
• Baden-Powell. Man-lifting experiments in 1899 documented. (pgs. 23-25)
• Haiti. Memories of kiteflying in Port au Prince. (pg. 26)
• Jim Day. Building and flying wooden kites. (pgs. 27-29)
• Stamps. Collecting postal issues is both interesting and inexpensive. (pgs. 30-32)
• Teizo Hashimoto. Masaaki Modegi remembers a Japanese master. (pgs. 33-34)
• Philippines. Violence delays research project by Orlando Ongingco. (pg. 35)
• Sled kite. Was this generic kite really invented in Europe, rather than the U.S.? (pgs. 36-37)
• Tal Streeter. Historian responds at length on Sled kite issue. (pgs. 37-42)
• Origins. Ed Grauel holds forth on the origins of the word "kite." (pgs. 43-44)
• Africa. Could the kite be indigenous to Africa after all? (pg. 45)
• Correspondence. Drachen Foundation receives mail from all over. (pg. 46)
• Maori. Tribal drawings date to 1818. (pg. 47)
• Tal Streeter. Musing on kite flying as a moment of grace. (pg. 48)

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