HOME 2003 ARCH PIN ARCHIVE 20th Annual Fort Worden Kitemakers Conference Fort Worden State Park - Conference Center Port Townsend, Washington February 28 through March 2, 2003 Welcome to the Fort Worden Kitemakers Conference website. As we reflect on the 2002 conference, the planning committee is already hard at work preparing for 2003. By (almost) all standards, the 2002 conference was a ...

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Many of these miniature kites fly at walking speed!

Last up date:1998/04/23 Making Process of HATA (1)Frame Making Process Step 1. Selection of bamboo Step 2. Cutting of bamboo Step 3. Cutting into predetermined length Step 4. Balancing of bow by sharpning bamboo Step 5. Letting water inside bamboo by heat Step 6. Adjust center frame to be straight Step 7. Making Tsuru cutting Step 8. Bending Tsuru by heat Step 9. Binding frame by string Step10.

Chevron Traction Kites Technical issues. UPDATED! A long (40k text) description of the technical issues involved in the design of the kite. Download and read at your leasure, off-line. History NEW! The story from the beginning. 63Kb text Construction NEW! Detailed description of exactly how the Chevron is built. 27kb text. Archive of the postings about the kite in rec.kites Andy Wardley's ...

Todd Leigh is the youngest saxophone player in Australia. Visit his web site to buy CD's, listen to samples of his music and find out all about this talented young musician.

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Bending Spars with a Coke Can Spar Comparison Table, Radar and Bar charts were updated on 3-Mar-1997. This is a (pretty technical) article about sport kite carbon spars. It was first published in Drachen Magazin 2/93. An updated article was published in DRAma in spring 1997. Smooth Winds Simo.Salanne@csc.fi References: Mark Cottrell, Swept Wing Stunt Kites , 1990. David Lord, Selecting spars for ...