KFS: Kite Flier's Site

Message of the Day was last updated Thu Mar 23
What's new? was last updated Tue May 16
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Galleries

• Kevin Lahey maintains a heirarchical index of the images in the rec.kites archive in Hawaii, complete with thumbnail previews.
• The Art of Carl Crowell
• A feature on Bobby Stanfield by Carl
• A feature on Lee Thrall & Joanne Petithory by Carl
• Peter Peters maintains a reference of popular kites with details of their specification that rivals the range of the review FAQ!
• A small gallery of pictures of Andrew
• Joanne Beattie has put together a selection of her favorite kite photos.
• The rec.kites Logo
• David Lord's Kite Gallery. (in-line pictures) An excellent study of his research and design.
• Peter Peters Gallery features kites he has built himself
• Pixels In the Wind By murder@cix.compulink.co.uk
• Pierre Fabre By Carl
• Jorgen Moller Hansens By Carl
• Also Check out the kite stores below...

Reference works

• Frequently Asked Questions:
  • The rec.kites General FAQ maintained by Anne Rock
  • The rec.kites Review FAQ maintained by Andrew Beattie
  • The interactive Address FAQ maintained by Dan Rubesh
  • The interactive Kite Festival FAQ maintained by cjsigal@netcom.com
  • The Kite Plan Bibliography Maintained by Esben and Simo
• Programs
  • The Revolution simulator: RevSim
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about the Kiteflight Simulator
• How to fly:
  • Description of all the basic Stunt moves and tricks By Dodd Gross
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about the Axel.
  • Fighter Kite Basics by David Gomberg
• Specifications and samples of spars and fabrics
• Andrew's attempt at a rec.kites advertising policy
• Kite law and patents
• Buggies Boats and Peels by Peter Lynn
• Bernhard's Study of the work of Peter Lynn (still under development)

Kite organisations

• Join the American Kite Association
• The Queensland Kite Flyers Society home page
• The STACK and AKA compulsary manoevers presented by Simo
• Corey Benson presents Buggy Newz, the Official organ of Buggy Pilots International.
• Forest Kenisky presents SWSKC
• Australian Kite Association broken link :-(
• Washington Kitefliers Association

Kite Plans

• Carl's collection of plans:
  • Flowform
  • Genki
  • Wolf Genki
  • Graded Tail
  • From D.C.
• The Raaseri by Simo
• Bernhard's version of Peter Lynn's Centipede
• Andrew's Keel-less Flowform
• David Lord:
  • Tip Turn
  • The Higher Aspect

Topics from the Rec.Kites archives

• The Kite flier's site holds an archive of all the posts to rec.kites since November 1992 until "recently". You can access this (or any other kite page) through our content index.
• Fun and games
• Building kites. (compiled by Simo)
• The Flexifoil (compiled by Simo)
• Tips on Flying (compiled by Simo)
• Tips on Sewing (compiled by Simo)
• Kite lines (compiled by Simo)
• The wind (compiled by Simo)
• A compendium of the excellent postings by Ron Reich
• A selection of Andrew's postings to rec.kites
• The words of the Kite Oracle

Home Pages

• Andrew Beattie
• Carl Crowell
• Peter Peters
• Kevin Lahey
• Jason Hellwege
• Daryl Erwin
• Philip Chase
• University of Bremen
• Emmanuel Germond
• SPring TAKO-BEYA
• Winslow Colwell
• Bernhard Malle
• Frank Ellerkamp
• David Lord
• The Queensland Kite Flyers Society
• Kai Griebenow
• Jim Cheetham

Kite stores

• Stafford's Indian Fun Kites
• David Gomberg runs Cascade Kites
• Carl's Kite Art is available for sale direct from the artist.
• Skyrider kite store Stocks Skynasaur, Flexifoil, Trilby and Spiro Jet.
• Into The Wind Is one of the more established US mail-order companies. Drop in and order their (paper) catalogue.
• Infinite Illusions is a juggling store that sells kites. I hope you've got an up-to-date graphical browser...
• Sky Vision Kites are having a Spring sale
• Tail Spin Kites
• Kiteworks
• Kittyhawk Now have a web page. Yeuch! they use BLINK.

Other Stuff

• We've indexed every word on every page at the Kite Flier's site!
• Look and see What's new?
• Assorted odds and ends
• Access statistics (large! - maybe 130kb or more)
• The Kite Flier's Link Farm
• The Kite Flier's Site Master Index. A concatenation of all the index pages at www.kfs.org/kites
• Find out Who's who?
• You can access these pages by Email
• If there is no wind, you could always juggle
• Knots:
  • Knotting Dictionary
  • Prusik knot
• If you want to fly, get a Hangglider