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Author: BearBear Date: Jun 4, 2008 15:05
In article news.lga.highwinds-media.com>,
Molesworth says...> In article ,
> Larry Green wrote:
>>
>> I used to build all types, single line, dual line, quad line, power kites,
>> fighter kites and some of them were quite large (the largest we built was
>> 14.5
>> feet wide by 6 ft tall but I do have larger ones in terms of sq. ft. of sail
>> area).
>
> Larry, I recently (well, last year( read 'The Kiterunner'.
>
> I enjoyed it, but obviously it was all about kites in Afghansistan and
> apparently there are some impressive fighting kites there in competition.
Somewhere in my Many Boxes Of Books, I have 2 kite books, "25 Kites That
Fly" (old-style kite building) and Kite Flying (IIRC), which has some
amazing photographs of kites and their flyers, as well as some lovely
true stories concerning kites, like the one that "terrorised" Central
Park many years ago, using a glassed line to cut down other kites, until
itself sliced by a cunning local kite expert [1]
Lovely book.
[1] why one wouldn't just follow the line down to the ground and thump
the miscreant I do not know, but there you go
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Bear
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