Kites for Everyone How to Make and Fly Them

Thorough, expert guide with easy-to-follow illustrated instructions for creating more than 50 awesome, airborne objects everything from simple bag kites to Vietnamese, Snake, Dutch, Dragon, Bullet, Delta, and Flowform flyers. The author also covers windsocks and toy parachutes. "It's like having a veteran kitemaker in the classroom." Science and Children.

Reprint of the Richland, Washington, 2003 edition.

Introduction

Classroom Kites

3

(9)

Wind Scale

12

(1)

Flying, Bridles, Lines, Knots, Reels

13

(4)

Fabric Kites

17

(7)

Kite Directory

24

(2)

Kites to Make

Vietnamese Kites

Vietnamese Kite

26

(2)

Vietnamese Bag Kite

28

(1)

Snake Kites

Siamese Snake Kite

29

(3)

Bag Snake Kite

32

(2)

Plastic Snake Kite

34

(1)

Fabric Snake Kite

35

(3)

Paper Kites

38

(2)

Dutch Kite

40

(2)

Paper Dragon Kite

42

(2)

Sled Kites

44

(1)

Kite Safety

44

(1)

Trashbag Sled Kite

45

(1)

Mini-Sled Kite

46

(2)

Stapled Sled Kite

48

(2)

Fabric Hornbeam Sled Kite

50

(1)

Bookmark Sled Kite

51

(1)

Bullet Kites

Mini Bullet Kite

52

(2)

Plastic Bullet Kite

54

(2)

Fabric Bullet Kite

56

(2)

Square Kites

Whole Bag Kite

58

(2)

Plastic Fantasmo Kite

60

(2)

Fabric Square Kite and Diamond Kites

62

(2)

Eddy Kites

64

(2)

Conover Eddy Kite

66

(2)

Traditional Eddy Kite

68

(2)

Lee Toy's Eddy Kite

70

(1)

Delta Kites

71

(1)

Little Delta Kite

72

(2)

One-Piece Delta Kite

74

(2)

Tony Cyphert's Delta Kite

76

(2)

Joseph Lee Delta Bird Kite

78

(4)

Harper's Ferry Delta Kite

82

(2)

Zephyr Delta Kite

84

(2)

Box Kites

Trashbag Box Kite

86

(2)

Mini Winged Box Kite

88

(2)

Fabric Box Kites

90

(1)

French Military Kite

90

(2)

Winged Square Box Kite

92

(2)

Corner and Facet Kites

Single-Cell Corner Kite

94

(2)

Two-Cell Corner Kite

96

(1)

Facet Kites, General

97

(1)

Four-sided Facet Kite

98

(2)

Five-sided Facet Kite

100

(4)

Flow Form Kites

Flow Form Kite

104

(2)

Flow Form Kite Instructions

106

(2)

Kite Tails, Bags, and Windsocks

Tails

108

(2)

Kite Bags

110

(1)

Streamer Windsock

111

(1)

Ribbon Windsock

112

(2)

Fabric Windsock

114

(2)

Parachute

116

(2)

Resources

Resources: Books, Magazines, Materials

118

(2)

Index

120

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Kites for Everyone How to Make and Fly Them

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