Joel Eckhaus was once a newcomer. He’d been flying kites for 65 years, on and off, so when he saw “a gang of kite people” at ...

In 1899, the Wright brothers (fellow Daytonians) flew box kites to test the idea of wing warping to make a kite in flight — later an airplane — steerable. And in 2023, flying his delta box kite on ...

A dozen or so people brought their kites - box kites, kites with spinning wheels, kites with cartoon characters - to Highland Park on a postcard picture-perfect, but windless, cloudless ...

One gusty midsummer Saturday, father and son carried the box kite to a nearby cemetery. “We put that little box kite up so high my father could no longer see it, though to my young eyes it was a ...

The box kite is the most common and well-known of many cellular kite designs. It has a high lift-to-weight ratio that made it very popular for the Wright Brothers and other first airplane designs." ...

That means oodles of box kites, diamond kites, miniature kites, and just about every type of kite you can imagine have darted, twirled, dipped, and flown along the sandy stretch.

Robert “Bob” R. Green made history, and always unintentionally. An engineer by training and an avid kite flyer by spirit, he designed silver mylar box kites, kites so special that he on… ...