Kites -

>>986341
I like kites. Fuk Facebook though. My dad liked them more than me. He would always win at least one catagory in the local competition. One year, he did one with a 30 foot wingspan out of ripstop nylon and aluminum. I always got a kite for my birthday.

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>>986348
nice! Send some pics - I will gladly upload them to the site. It would be nice to have some personal flair to it other than my own.

>>986355
Wish I had some pics. I'm 40 and my dad died a few years back. I can't fly a kite without thinking of him. I take my son flying every now and then.

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>>986359
Yikes man, I am sorry to hear that. Mine is part nostalgia part therapeutic. I am glad you're doing for your son what you father did for you. Thats very important!

>>986362
No biggie. Sometimes it's better to cut the string while it's flying high, rather than watch it crash.

You ever do any kite fighting? I just learned about folks that are so cutthroat into it that they use glass impregnated strings.

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>>986341
Never kite fought no, just regular flying. Its amazing how much more there is to it than just flying a kite. It seems really unrecognized and under appreciated.

I always used to get scared when flying kites because I was worried of a gust of wind pulling me up into the sky or losing my kite

most trips where I might end up with time on a beach, or some other windy place, I take my 1.3m airfoil kite, be it cruising to mexico, or going out into the american west for camping/hiking/etc.

White Sands, NM, is always a great place for it.

>>986373
>glass on the strings for kite-fighting
Pretty much the #2 sport in Afghanistan after headless-goat murder-polo.