Back Issues of Kite Lines

BACK ISSUES of Kite Lines offer a wealth of information and ideas: plans, tips, techniques (for both single- and multiline fliers), personalities, world records, festivals, reviews--an essential living history of today's kiting, saturated with inspiring stories and designs.

No wonder back issues are avidly collected by so many enthusiasts. You can start now with the 22 issues available while supplies last in original paper form...

SUMMER 1990 (Vol. 8, No. 1)
Festivals in New Zealand, Berlin, Washington (England) and Australia; parachute stunter plans; Peter Lynn's future tech; Bobby Stanfield climbs Stone Mountain.

WINTER 1990-91 (Vol. 8, No, 2)
European spectacular: Dieppe, Montpellier, Bristol, Berlin; Stunt Kite Survey; D'Alto on Whitehead (1901); largest Eddy record; butterfly plans; power flight on suspended wire.

SPRING 1991 (Vol. 8, No, 3)
Whistling kites of Nantong, China by Tal Streeter; Gomberg's kite pin confessions; quick & easy angle estimating; Wind Shot stunter plans; record for longest kite.

SUMMER-FALL 1991 (Vol. 8, No, 4)
Pierre Fabre in Japan; Kinnaird's rokkaku strategies; Bill Kocher's obtuse tetra; Huntington Beach scandal; Wildwood at its best; Jalbert obituary; Sky Gallery: Peter Malinski.

WINTER 1991-92 (Vol. 9, No. 1)
Gubbio (Italy) is GaGa; Sprint stunter contest in Italy; Richard Synergy in Poland; Tucker's Painless Parafoil plans; Sloboda on painting ripstop; Sky Gallery: Roberto Guidori.

SPRING-SUMMER 1992 (Vol. 9, No. 2)
Andre Cassagnes, father of French kiting; world class Thailand; natural fibers festival; Bill Tyrrell flies high at Christmas Island; stunter survey; Heart kite; Sky Gallery: George Peters.

FALL 1992 (Vol. 9, No, 3)
Castiglione (Italy) + Le Touquet, Barcelona, Ostia; the Arch Ribbon--historic notes, tips; kites over Niagara Falls; handling tangles; lanuzzi's Featherlight; Sky Gallery: Kim Petersen.

WINTER 1992-93 (Vol. 9, No. 4)
Kite power by Nop Velthuizen, with traction chronology; fighter kite survey; Dieppe; Hamamatsu by George Peters; the GX-3 stunter; spray-painting nylon; Sky Gallery: the Gibians.

SPRING 1993 (Vol. 10, No. 1)
Soul-lifting kites of Guatemala; Java festival; Ed Alden's family of fighter kites; celeb rokkakus; travel tips; Rameaux aerials; quad-line Propeller; Sky Gallery: Jorgen Moller Hansen.

SUMMER-FALL 1993 (Vol. 10, No, 2)
Adrenaline tour of India; Istvan Bodoczky's asymmetry; Crowell's Cross Deck; Sac City, Iowa festival classic; kites at the Pyramids; power on ice; Sky Gallery: Tony Wolfenden.

WINTER 1993 (Vol. 10, No, 3)
North Sea events (Terschelling, Fano, Scheveningen); kite camp caravan; Rendez-Vous Mondial, Canada; AKA at Seaside; Sheragy's butterflies, Sky Gallery: Wolfgang Schimmelpfennig.

SPRING-SUMMER 1994 (Vol.10, No, 4)
Kite sailing; South America: Colombia & Brazil; buggy events + Scoot Buggy & Wheels of Doom plans; Kevin Shannon delta; Australia's Bondi Beach festival; Sky Gallery: Reza Ragheb.

FALL 1994 (Vol. 11, No. 1)
Shirone's great museum; Korean fighters and who's who; art & ideas of Joan Montcada; the Thailand International; aerial photographer George Lawrence; Sky Gallery: Jimmy Sampson.

WINTER-SPRING 1995 (Vol. 11, No. 2)
Dieppe; Hargrave commemoration; Stockholm event; spar study; new buggies; Streeter on Hiroshima; Shannon's Baby Cicada fighter; Alex Mason; Roger Maddy; Sky Gallery: Scott Skinner.

SUMMER-FALL 1995 (Vol. 11, No. 3)
Great festivals: New Zealand, Curacao, Israel, Italy, Canada; artist Steve Brockett; the Smithsonian; Playsail & Windbow by George Peters, What Is a Kite?: Sky Gallery: Pierre Fabre.

WINTER-SPRING 1996 (Vol. 11, No. 4)
Kites of Nepal; Mallorca roundtable; skiting the Greenland ice cap; kite patents by Ed Grauel; Dusseldorf and Peter Rieleit; Stan Rogers; Gomberg on Fano: Sky Gallery: Tom McAlister.

SUMMER 1996 (Vol. 12, No. 1)
Kite fishing Indonesian style; festival at Berck-sur-Mer; St. Elmo's fire; Norway's Isegran Dragefestival; special report on power kites; Is Pin Collecting Dead?; Sky Gallery: Michael Goddard.

FALL-WINTER 1996 (Vol. 12, No. 2)
Kites in museums; Gibson Girl box rescue; a blessed Dieppe; why kites fly; the Korea International Kite Festival; fighter kites of Hong Kong; Sky Gallery: Oscar & Sarah Bailey.

SPRING-SUMMER 1997 (Vol. 12, No.3)
The Tosa Dako of Japan; touring India with Tal Streeter; buggying at Berrow, England; George Lawrence kite photography controversy; the Cartagena bubble machine; Sky Gallery: Jon Burkhardt.

WINTER 1997-98 (Vol.12, No. 4)
The shining wau of Malaysia by Pierre Fabre; The Dragedyst in Copenhagen by Mel Govig; history of the Brookite by Paul Chapman; postcards from Uchinada by David Gomberg; workshop of Gaston's Gi2 dual-liner; the Skybow, a real innovation; events in Italy, Alaska, Germany and Washington state; SkyGallery: Guy & Claudette Gosselin.

SPRING 1999 (Vol.13, No.1)
Japan! Fujisaki & Uchinada; new techniques with a spray can; "skiting" techniques from Antarctica; how the Flow Form came to be by Kathy Sutton; a dream trip to India by George Peters; controversies over manjha and the altitude record; plans for a modern Nagasaki hata; postcards from Dubai by David Gomberg; death of Mel Govig; events in Launceston, Washington, Ocean City, Cape Town and Miami; SkyGallery: Michel Gressier.

Winter 1999-2000 (Vol.13 No.2)
Big Air, Big Buzz: Kite Boarding; New Sightings at Dieppe 1998 by Pierre Fabre; Kites on a Harley Motorcycle Tour of the American Southwest; Verdun (Canada's) last Rendez-Vous; scattering ashes from a kite; On the Trail of the Tukkal; the Sedgwickube kite with sliding bridle; a new duration streak; SkyGallery: Philippe Cottenceau.

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