Kite Cookery: How to Design Your Own Kite... by Squadron Leader Don Dunford MBE. Designer of the Dunford Flying Machine presents plans for 4 kites, building methods and materials, plus idiosyncratic aerodynamics ("the wind is like...giant sausages"). Softcover, 47 pp., 5 3/4" x 8 1/4", $5.95

Kite Flight: Theory and Practice by Chris Wright. NEW! Clear and with useful illustrations, this book is in two parts: a thorough discussion of aerodynamics that may lose non-technical readers, and practical advice for making kites fly better. The author is nicely non-dogmatic, concluding, "no one really understands kite behaviour." Softcover, 71 pp., $19.95

The Kite Store Book of Kites by Mark Cottrell. Last copies available! Unpretentious in the extreme but includes 10 original Cottrell plans (such as the Swept Wing Box, Ramfoil, Multijib) plus data on materials and techniques. Includes an antique 5.25" diskette (IBM) for computer design. Softcover, 48 pp., 8-1/2" x 11", $13.95

Kites: A Practical Handbook by Ron Moulton and Pat Lloyd. NEW EDITION! Extensively improved over 1992 first edition; offers 8 new designs, including 2 Codys, the Circoflex and the Brogden; also has the Hewitt Flexkite, Pearson Roller and several stunt kites. Excellent drawings, more pages of color, good sections on knots, flying techniques and parachuting teddy bears. Updated appendixes. Softcover, 240 pp., 7 1/2" x 9 3/4", $31.95

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