At some point, many of us were briefly fascinated with kites. The reason we were only briefly interested in this hobby was that it was fraught with failure: The kite never flew or, if it did, it was ...

Take a stroll through a modern kite store, such as the Kite Loft at Harborplace, and you’ll know the days of the paper-covered two-stickers you used to get for a dime are long gone. It is easy to ...

Have you ever tried to build your own kite? Kites have been a source of entertainment for centuries for kids around the world. How do some features of a kite, such as its tail, affect how it flies? In ...

Take paper, sticks, some string and add a good wind. Jane and Michael Banks knew how much fun it could be flying a kite, and now there is a whole month dedicated to the sport of kite flying. April is ...

Abigail Kempe started making Bermuda kites as a kid with her dad, Toby. Once she was old enough to do it on her own, she set a challenge of making “really big ones” and was thrilled when they actually ...

The sand, the surf and the windy beach was just 50 yards away from Abdulla Maliyekkal’s house in Kozhikode. Anyone visiting Kozhikode Beach would not fail to see the long-tailed kites that dot the ...