A breeze, at least the sort of flittering, here-for-a-moment-then-gone breeze that is needed to give a classic triangle kite an easy lift-off, tends to be on the shorter side. One moment ...

So I went out to fly one of my stunt kite, a hobby I have had for about 15 yrs now. I took out my Flexifoil Matrix, a 104" (8'8") competition triangle kite rated for 2-15 mph (I've used it before ...

Bell and his team, called the Aerial Experiment Association, ultimately focused their kite designs on tetrahedrons, or pyramids made of four triangles, and biplane structures, several of which ...

Flipped on its side, the kite’s diamond body forms a perfect square. Two rods bisect the surface, forming four isosceles right triangles on the kite’s regular face. This was a misleading ...

“The thing with kite building is accuracy and symmetry,” he said, as he fit a fiberglass rod, added red tape and tied a long red streamer to the point of the triangle. The kite’s ...

"I quite liked the kites, so after a while, taking photos was not enough, and I was tempted to try my hand at flying one. I began with dual-line triangle kites and immediately liked the feeling ...