The road to Corolla has few passengers in October. The seasonal tenants have long since gone home, leaving the beaches to wild horses and crazy kite people. A 23-mph wind and a cold fall day narrowed ...

Robert Lassonde finds the open fields beside the Andrew Hulsey Fish Hatchery in Hot Springs a good place to catch the wind as he practices with his quad-line sport kite in March. LITTLE ROCK — ...

Flying a kite in Pakistan is a dangerous pastime. Already it’s banned for all but 15 days of the year but a provincial minister warned kite-flyers this week that any who cause injury or death with ...

Go fly a kite and be changed. As an avid kite flier, Nicole “Nic” O’Neill notices a transformation in herself when she flies a kite. It doesn’t matter if she’s standing on a beach making loop-de-loops ...

Driving down the road along a bluff overlooking the beach, the side mirror mounting suddenly squeaked raucously and violently spun off after fouling the string of a kite flown above the bluff from the ...

Sammy David peered up at his kite, 120 feet high in the sky, wing-tip to wing-tip with three others, hovering on a horizontal line. He wanted to spin his kite 90 degrees in a move called "the blender.

I learned a little bit yesterday about kite flying, Afghan-style. Najib said the wind was just right and another friend was to meet us up on the kite flying hill. Off we headed, in his dusty Corolla - ...

— -- Little wonder that April, with its spring breezes, is National Kite Month — a favorite time of year for Scott Skinner, master kite maker and executive director of the Drachen Foundation ...

There is something almost spiritual about flying a kite. It is a communion with nature, where the wind and the earth are joined by a slender string reaching into the heavens. Kiting can be a solitary ...

I know better now, but before I got educated, a kite was nothing more than frustration on a string, robotically attracted to telephone lines, treetops and nightmarish nosedives into the ground. With a ...