Kite Lines - Vol.2 No. 4 - KiteLife

Contents CopyrightMONUMENTALITY in Kites : A Symposium / 19Why is bigger better? Or is it? Answers from 23 noted kiters covermany shades of gray-as well as the polarities . Included are theories,practical advice and a suggested scale of size definitions .Weight Watching Japan's Giants / 33By A . Pete lanuzzi . The mighty are measured . Pocketcalculator in hand, Pete questions the weight claims forJapan's giants and compares area/weight ratios of 11 kites .The Bedsheet O'dako / 34By A. Pete lanuzzi . A tested American version for a giantkite you can make and fly-to startle the neighborhood .200 Years of Kite Fishing Success / 38By Bill Trebilcock, Principal Keeper, Eddystone Lighthouse,17 miles off Plymouth, England . Kite Lines documents the workingsystem at Britain's last lighthouse stronghold of kite fishing .For the Record / 40Two new kite records are claimed and discussed in Kite Lines :(1) Bernard Stewart's kite-pulled boat trip from the shoresof Washington to his hometown, Victoria, B .C ., Canada ;(2) Six-year-old Angus White's flight of a 24-foot deltain London, claimed as a junior record . His father, John White,suggests a formula for the record and describes his kite, too .The International Exposition of Asymmetrical Kites / 44Announcing a new event to be held in Burtonsville, MD, USA, June 7,1980. Asymmetrical awards, of course! You have plentyof time to think this out (or conclude it's all bonkers) .DepartmentsLetter from the Editor / 6Letters / 8What's New / 12Beautifully crafted kites from Sri Lanka reviewed .Profiles / 36Louise Crowley : Free Spirit .Story and Photographs by John F . Van Gilder .News from Here and There : Stateside / 42News from Here and There : International / 46Directory of Outlets / 43Design Workshop / 48The Super Conyne, proposed as a standard, by Arthur Kurle .Swap Shop / 50Classifieds / 50CoverReal greatness in kites : a giant at Sagamihara, Japan,at the moment of launch, a spectacle that few would believeif it were not for the camera of David Checkley .The scene was shot in May of this year on the kite tour of Japanled by Checkley . Perhaps the picture partially answers someof the questions raised in our symposium on monumentality inkites (pages 19 to 34) . But such a kite somehow stands apart ;it is an answer that does not need a question .© Verve Enterprises, Inc . 1979Reproduction in any form, in whole or in part,is strictly prohibited without prior writtenconsent of the publishers .Kite Lines is the comprehensive internationaljournal of kiting and the only magazine of itskind in America . 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