Kite Page

Thursday, July 03, 2003
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In the summer of 1997, from the internet, I became re-aware of a long lost love. Kites.
As a child, My father and I sailed traditional paper diamond kites and the cheap plastic GaylaŽ delta-bats. My all time favorite however was a simple paper box kite. Over a 17 year span and moving of house several times, it managed to remain intact.
           At present I am in the process of getting back into kites. And the sport has changed and modernized considerably in the last 25 years. Wooden dowels have been replaced by graphite rods. Paper has given way to rip-stop nylon. The kites get faster and lighter with each passing year.

Though I've enjoyed flying single line machines, more and more I am getting involved with multi-line stunt kites. My kite bag keeps filling with these. Most recently I have discovered Quads...WOW!! However, one of my favorites,  is my Windance. This is a parafoil, like those acrobatic parachutes, but it runs on two lines. The result is a soft kite that you can bounce it off the ground, slam it into a dune and let the wind drag it back up into the sky to carve continuing shapes.   The other reason this is my favorite kite is that it is DAY-GLO GREEN.

I am a member of the A.K.A.
I am a member of the J.K.A.

Kites by Edo

In 1998, I bought a sewing machine to undertake the building of kites.
After much messing around I finally got on with the task of building a kite. I first built an extended Keel Delta. The design comes for the Big book of Kites.

Next I completed a Centipede Windsock.

I built my linked box kite for my trip to China. Although it looks pretty good in the sky, I need to rethink the design.

Revised: July 03, 2003