Success… After spending many an afternoon flying some of my larger kites at Windsor Sports Complex just outside of Madison, WI, I reached out to the DeForest Windsor Area Chamber of Commerce on the idea of a kite festival, and we’re in business! Come join the Wisconsin Kiters Club and the DeForest Windsor community for… Continue reading New Kite Festivals Taking Flight
What did Jared get? Spring has arrived! And from what I can tell by social media, vacuumed packages filled with kites are arriving on the doorsteps of quite a few fliers. As for me, for the first time in a long while, I can honestly say I don’t really have my sights set on anything… Continue reading Find the Kite You Want this Spring
Last weekend I got a kick out of a little 5yr-old boy in my neighborhood. With great excitement and albeit in a very collected manner, he captured the Sutton 252 on video from his house as I flew it on Saturday morning. His mother posted it on our neighborhood Facebook page and very kindly made… Continue reading ‘That’s Crazy!’; Little Tyke Captures ‘Enormous’ Kite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Z27nNb1AQ&t=6s Long out of production, Suttons are becoming legendary. About six years ago when I got into large kite flying, molar flow forms weren’t even on my mind… Big and boring I thought. Instead, I kicked everything off with the Rieleit Foil. I’m glad I did, but I’ve since come to love flying molar flow… Continue reading Are Good Quality Flow Forms Really that Hard to Find?
Well, no sooner did I have Faye Ray in the air the week before last when my pilot veered off in heavier winds and she spun (forever and a day) around the line of a...
Michael K. Sherman 