Kite Links sorted by Subjects

As far as I know, all the links are safe for kids to visit. However, I can not visit each site daily. Thus, if you think that any link contains material not suitable for children, please inform me by e-mail. I will then remove the link.

• Art-oriented Kite Sites
• Kite Reference Sites
• Fighter Kites
• General Kite Information and Starting Points
• Stuntkite oriented Kite Sites
• Powerkiting, Skiing with Kites, Buggying
• Commercial Kite Sites
• Kite Clubs
• Kiteflyers Associations
• Other Kite Related Pages
• Publications and Journals
• Kite Aerial Photography

SO Kites

An exhibition of various kite artists from Scandinavia. Very interesting.

Photos from our Wall of Shame presented by Joanne Petithory and Lee Thrall.

Nice new site, very nice autumn leaves kite. I like patchwork :-).

Festival Reports: Junction 1993 , Sandiego , Long Beach , Fanoe , and Visalia.

The Artistic Kite Group

Charlie Charlton did set up a nice site concentrating on the artistry of kite making. It contains the newsletter of the group, tips on dyeing of ripstop, and even four definitions of what an artistic kite is ;-). Also included galleries of several kite makers.

Wind Climbers Kite Club

Very interesting collection of kite makers with numerous art kites. Also very interesting line junk and plans.

EIJI OHASHI'S HOMEPAGE

Really mega cool new site with gigantic kite constructions! The box kites are just amazing. Includes exhibition of 600 (!!!) traditional Japanese kites. I just can't stop looking at it! Really one of the world's finest kite artists - and luckily now online!

Japanese Kites by Masami Takakuwa

A wonderful site with various pictures on Japanese kites. A must for the kite enthusiast!

California Kite Art by Bob Harris.

Another very nice kite-art site with galleries of: BOBBY STANFIELD, RON and SANDY GIBIAN, RANDY TOM, and TY BILLINGS.

Carl Crowell

This kite site features art of himself and galleries of several other kite artists. Also lot's of building plans and info.

Jason's Kite Site

Kites from Australia. See kites of Jason, Tony Wolfenden and others.

Winslow Colwell

Magnificant WWW page collection, an artist at work! Visit his gallery and the japanese section .

Exeter Kite central by John Staplehurst

Sites, images, plans and growing. Now lots of links . Also new is his collection of nice images , most from the Bristol kite festival in 1995.

The Watermelone People

Tom and Donna Grable show us how the watermelone motiv can be used on kites.

Lou Behrman's Home Page .

Lou Behrman, known for his wonderful patchwork Rokkakus presents some of his works on his pages. Cool site ;-).

Hilmar's Kite Site

Very good site with building plans, patchworking stuff, nice pictures with unique kites, kite art ....... and many more. And all bilingual in German and English.

The KiteStore (BFK)

Has excellent and many pictures of the 1996 AKA convention! Look in particular at the peoples choice section! The Zebra Genki is fantastic! If anyone knows who made that kite, please send me an e-mail to griebeno@adam.uprr.pr. Thanks.

Das Drachenarchiv von Hans Snoek. A fantastic site if you understand German with informations on: (Highlights!)

Steiff Rolloplan

Pins

Kite festival impressions

Exhibitions of the Snoek collection

Deutsche Drachenlinks - gesammelt von Thomas-Michael Rudolph.

Enter the world of kites at the rec.kites archive

Maintained by Kevin Lahey.

Mike's Kite Site

A wonderful collection of links. This is an excellent starting point to surf the net on the hunt for new sites.

Kite Links

Large list, some links are a little bit old (last update August 1996).

Peter Peters

Name-picture list, kite descriptions, building plans, lots of WWW-links and other interesting stuff around kites.

Kitelinks

Another link site (in German) maintained by Simon Brinkrolf.

Kites and Education

Good site introducing plans suitable for kids, safety tips, and much more.

WWW pages made by kids :)

Kite Flier's Site

Andrew Beattie has a huge amount of information on clubs, building plans, galleries and reference works. Excellent to find what you want to know. Links are organized in a bookmark file for fast net-surfing. Nice! Lots of info on recent years of the kiteflyers meeting on Fano.

Building kites afordable by Gilles Lehoux

Build a kite with relatively cheap materials! It has not always to be the high-end high-tech version :). I like the site.

Bernhard's and Robert's Kite Pages from Germany.

Soon to be the link for kite plans I bet. Bernhard Malle and Robert Pudlo set up a nice site here. Allready there: plans for Softcentipede, 7 m Octopus. Soon Cody and Gecko coming up.

Michael Graves Home Page from Canada.

Michael can enjoy kiting as a hobby again. Info on Parabears, single line kite gallery, used kites for sale, some links. This site could also be categorized as art oriented. He also has a nice collection of kite clipart now and a very funny entry page :).

Search the Usenet .

Go here and get info on maus.kites from Germany by typing just that. Only some newserver have maus.kites.

Fighter Kites & More by Gina Hsiung.

A new very exciting site primarily devoted to presenting information on Fighter Kites. Nice images on Afghani Fighters.

Dr.Kyte alias Joe Schiros' site

Interesting new site with a Fighter Kite plan .

Manjha Kite Club presented by Christophe Salome.

Nice info on Fighter Kites and also building plans.

Indonesian Fighter Kite Plan published by Kai.

I put the first plan on the net. Is not available otherwise, not even in books.

Fighter Kites

Buy fighter kites directly from the producer in India. Very nice site with lots of interesting pictures and models. Many different shapes for fighter kites.

Bernd und Sabine Schneider

Very nice single-line site. I am in particular interested in the very large kites with a bamboo frame in them, including a Cody!

Nunzios Homepage

New site from Worms in Germany with excellent lay-out. Nice collection of accessories. Nice gallery of home-made kites.

Kites by Heinrich Vogelmann in German.

Weil die Seite in Deutsch ist nun auch die Beschreibung in Deutsch: Einige nette Beschreibungen von selbstgebauten Ein- und Zweileinern, einige Links. Gute Photos.

Single Line Kites by Patrick Mann

Very nice site with a special page referring to building single line kites.

tmr's kite site of life

Very nice site primarily focussing on single line kites. Very interesting building plans published!

Elgin's Kite Page .

Probably the youngest web-page owner in the kite scene offers us some nice pictures of kites. You can also visit his class, Machias Elementary's Room 6's Home Page . Their mascot is a Bob Cat :-).

New Site from NL .

So far plans for the Fucker (I am not responsible for the name of this kite......) and NASA Chute, some links, and info on kite festivals.

Damien du Toit's Kite Site from South Africa.

Have to check it out more soon :-). Has a professional look.

KiteParadise .

New site started up here with a lot of power. He has a Link list with ranking. He also has animated graphics on his sites :-). In addition a lot of info on buggying.

Art and Flywork

Interesting new site by Peter de Jong with building plans, tips on sewing, gallery, and more.

Bermuda Kites

Learn how to make one, good instructions.

Dorf's Kitepage .

Especially interesting plans for a Ferry and a Blowfish-Windsock.

Home Page Cerf-Volant by Joan Gabriel Elia

Contains several nice photo galleries and festival reports.

Kites at Surrey

The old gopher site of Andy Tate now as WWW site. UK kite events, groups, stores.

Kites, Weasels, Woes .

A lot of stuff on Weasel, some kite links.

Endless PossibilitiesAnn and Sam Ritter.

Andy and Denise's Home Page

Kite Site by Dru Nelissen.

Mike's Kite Site

Excellent site with tons of information. The Best-of-the-Best listings make it more easy for new web-surfers to find significant kite resources. Excellent resource for finding pictures of randy Tom's kites :).

Kite & Weaving Cokeian from Japan.

Some nice images of japanese kites, otherwise a lot of text in Japanese. This tiger train in the front page is amazing. I am tempted to make such a train.....

Site by Seizi Kashima from Japan in Japanese.

The Kite World.

Site by Akiyoshi Odagawa from Japan in Japanese. Some nice backgrounds like Japanese waves. Nice picture of a Yakko Dako .

Kites Page .

Site by Masataka Deguchi from Japan in Japanese.

KITENET .

Site by Hiroshi Morisaki from Japan in Japanese.

Air's Kite Works.

Site by Katsumi Murakami from Japan in English ;-).

Aquiloni by Bruno Bonino from Italy.

Lots of tips in Italien.

Christian Henkel's Drachenseiten .

Some nice images of single line kites, like a Para-Sled and Bell-Tetraeder.

Jake's Home Page .

Info on his kite bag and some links.

JJW's WWW Kite Info .

Mostly links but with funny comments :-). Also origin of the word kite.

Meg Albers .

A site offering a kite history and images on kite festivals.

Kite Education.

Some info on kites, more info on education.

Bob's Kite Page .

Some links and info.

Anthony's Kite Workshop.

Kite Plans and also adventure-like page construction. I bet Anthony played in some MUDS (like I did.....;-).

Matt's Home Page .

Some links and images.

J.B. Net - Kites .

Some info on flying site and shops in the Grenoble area.

Mr. Revolution John Mitchel.

Info on STACK, DCD, Drachen Magazin, Fano, and Revolution Kites.

Wynsen Vlagsma's Home Page from the Netherlands.

Describtions and images on severall stunt kites.

Rolfs Homepage from Germany.

He has some Raaseri pics (from Oldenburg, hi Joachim Wiechmann), a link-list and plans to put kite plans on the net. New" Kite Clipart

Matt's Home Page from England.

He has some links and a small gallery so far.

SPring-Kite; SPring-8 Kite Club

A Japanese site, a lot in Japanese, very good link-list.

Frank Keniski

South West Sport Kite Conference.

BASKL Home Page .

by Bob Steele. Activities of the Bay Area Sport Kite League.

Tom's happy-hour page

Contains information and pictures of his stunt kites including a page dedicated to Fizz Kites .

Dave Culp Speedsailing

Sailing with kites, Kitesailing Newsletter. Pretty wild looking sport :-).

Dave Lord

Lots of informations, photos, building plans and links to other sites. It is an excellent starting point for net surfing!

For our powerkiting friends Philip Chases's site

is very interesting.

Kiting by Gary ??.

A nice new page on Power Kiting, still under construction.

Gomberg Kite Productions

A lot of Products, in particular Peter Lynn Showkites, Pins, and Gomberg Books. Cool site :).

K.I.T.E.S. Home Page .

Site of German kitemaker Hans Schepker. Seems that he left the business :(

Hang-em High Home Page.

All materials a kitemaker needs, my most beloved shopping spot :-). Ripstop, spars, tools, lines, ........long catalog. I order most of my stuff here.

Phoenix

German kite manufacturer.

Catch The Wind

Single-, dual-, and quad-line kites, accessoires and windsocks.

The Kite Shop

Numerous kites on-line and also building materials.

James Ervin/Blue Ridge Kites

Some very nice stunt kites to order. Nice page set-up.

Stafford's Indian Fun Kites .

Indian Fighter Kites.

Once Upon a Breeze Kiteshop

Very professional collection of pages and very good links.

Into The Wind Kite Catalog.

Caribbean Kite Company .

Stunt Kites to order. Very good images.

WindBlade , a new wind game that looks interesting.

NB Kiters Home Page .

Info on kite companies and fliers at New Brunswick, Canada.

Vlieger Op Homepage .

One of the - if not the - oldest kite store in The Netherlands on-line.

ConnectiKiters Homepage built and maintained by Tim LeBlanc.

Informations on one of the largest kite clubs in New England. Just for the fun of it!

Kites Over New England K.O.N.E. .

Informations on the largest kite club in New England.

Fesseldrachenflieger Stade (FDF)

Mathias Tommforde presents this German kite club with nice www pages.

Spring-8 Kite Club from Japan.

Info on events and links from Japan.

Kite Club of Scotland by Colin Black.

Some info on events and membership. Just started.

Kansas City Kite Club.

Contact info.

The Queensland Kite Flyers Society from Australia.

Info on flying dates, QKFS newsletter.

Adelaide Kite Flyers Association from Australia.

Journal, Gallery, Guest Book, and more.

The Kite Society of Great Britain .

Info on U.K. kite events, groups, and retailers.

Australian Kiteflyers Society .

Australians largest kite society presents the AKS newsletter Flying High , AKS shop, membership info, contact adress, and more.

AKA

American Kitefliers Association.

Roger Ripstop Kite Cartoons.

NEKITE .

Info on the New England Kite mailing list maintained by Richard Amirault. Plan for a bubble machine (cool for kids at kite festivals!).

Kite Altitude Record Attemp .

Very nice new stuff with big box kites.

Kites Classified Page by Mike Wood.

A brandnew site where you can sell and buy used kites! Very excellent idea to make good use of the web! There is even a auction going on.

Kel's MicroKite Site

A new site presenting micro-kites.

Kite Exhibition Zollern

Fantastic exhibition, very good pictures of the kites. A real must!

Museum of Huge Kites in Saitama

Nice page maintained by Kaoru Yamanaka.

Ecoll's Parafauna Resources

I couldn't believe it - a whole lot of info and links on parachuting teddy baers ;). Kiting is really without limits.

Please read their own explanaition:

Para-fauna, what kind of creature is that? Basically, one takes an innocent teddy bear (or other kind of stuffed toy entity), equip it with a parachute of some kind, force it up a kite line, and make it jump from a suitable height. The teddy bears and kids tend to find it quite amusing after they have overcome the fear of the first jump.

Very important for kite-flyers:

The US national weather picture .

Kiter on Leine from Germany.

The first attempt to create an on-line journal.

Flypaper .

The K.O.N.E. publication on-line.

Drachenmagazin

Kite Aerial Photography - Home Page

Maintained by Charles C. Benton. One of the best web-sites I have seen so far. Galleries, technical info and all you always wanted to know about KAP.