The News Journal, Wilmington - March, 22

On Wednesday, the first day of spring, students and teachers from the Elementary Workshop Montessori School in Wilmington ventured out to test the breeze at Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park as part of the Talking Kites All Over the World project. About 60 children, ages 3 through 12, from the Elementary Workshop joined tens of thousands of children worldwide flying kites simultaneously for the global event.
         
International organizers call the fly “a universal expression of global peace.”
Former professional basketball player Val Whiting’s height comes in handy as she helps her 6-year-old son, Joseph, launch a kite

Carnet de Vol - march 07
During the Second World war , the English and American bombers were equipped with survival equipment to contribute to the recovery of the men fallen at sea.
A kite was a survival equipment distributed to the American aviators before their missions.
          
In 1944, the bombers of the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Army had this equipment, with Gibson Girl on board.
Carnet de Vol had made a kit. You can refer to the manual of instructions and to extract of de AIR MINISTRY PUBLICATION, where you can discover how several crews of bombers could be thus recovered and saved.
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Traditions and entertainment joined together by the UCAB for the flight of kites (papagayos).
Venezuela – march 15 – correo del caron

To fly the papagayos means for our fathers or grandfathers, traditional and specific infantile play of the Holy Week, where the children of all the ages met in opened places, far from the places with electric cables or trees, in which one the kites could get tangled up in.
The principal idea was to show that it could fly more. To fly his papagayo is a releasing activity so that through the generations it was maintained like the favourite activity of the children Venezuelans.

         
In Guayana, There are two favourite places to practice this play, one of them is the hill El Gallo in San Fénix, and the other is Cruz del Papa in the avenue Paseo Caroní.
Since this occasion, the Catholic University Andrés Bello (UCBA), organizes a contest for the students and the population: “The happiest Papagayo” and “the prettiest Papagayo”, to make them fly to take pleasure with their family and friends, but not to cut the kite of the others. Ibelitze Hernández, coordinator of culture of the UCAB Guayana and organizer of the event, specify that it is the second time that this meeting takes place and that it is a unique experiment.
“We await a grandfather who will come with his grandson, to show him and teach to him how it practices, and to also divide with us.”

Kite fest next week
Doha Time - Qatar - 4 march

Pakistani expatriates, especially those from the city of Labore, have planned to celebrate the Basant (kite-flying) festival on March 9 in the Abu Hamour area.
A meeting of Doha-based kite-flyers was held recently to finalise the arrangements for the fiesta, part of the annual spring celebration held in Lahore which attracts thousands of enthusiasts from Pakistan and abroad. The meeting was hosted by Pak Doha Kite-Flyers Group (PDKG) organisers and  Lahore Kite-Flyers Group (LKG).
     
Pakistani diplomats were the special guests at the event.
Zahir Akram is known in the community as an expert kite-maker. His kites come in attractive colours and shapes and carry specific names according to their designs like Kashti, Salara, Teera, Pery and Kup.

First crossing off the Atlantic with has balloon-sail without any means off mechanical propulsion.
France - march

        

Since 3 years, it has been more than twenty engineers, researchers, architects and technical advisers who, with enthusiasm, shared to their expertise to build project WINDREAM ONE. It is only the airship using the sea, the sun and the airs, like only means off propulsion.
It is subjected to the air regulation, not with the maritime regulation. It is registered in ULM classify 5 (Ultra-light with a volume off Helium lower than 900 m3). For this reason, it has priority of any machine flying except the hot-air-balloon.

The team will be in stand by in Dakar from January 2008, while waiting for that the weather consultant, Pierre Lasnier, gives them the starting signal. The first part of the voyage between Dakar and the Cape Verde are announced as most delicate, whereas the crossing to Martinique should profit from well established winds.

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Above the small hills float each day of the multicoloured sails. Hung like puppets with their ropes, kiters benefit from the mistral. The spectacle is breathtaking  : these insane of the blizzard glide along at tremendous speeds, or rises like dead sheets thrown in the gust of wind. 31 sometimes 43 mph charged with snow.

The kite measures 32 to 53 sq ft. The fingers cold by a temperature of -77°F, you must untie the knots of the kite.
The Havre-aux-Basques lagoon has a powdery and smooth surface, favourable at the speed. The place reminds Great Salt Lake so much it is larg. Fixed in his harness, the skier unceasingly increases the angle of attack until to skim very close the track of his shoulder.

The kite is the only activity which we can practice by all the temperatures in the Island-of-the-Madeleine. When the wind is blowing too much to make kayak or when there’s not enough sun to go to the beach, we can always kiter. Attach a kite to a surfing, a snow board or skis, and you obtain a new glide sport : kitesurf, kiteski, kitebuggy.