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 ...

— -- 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 ...

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.

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 ...