Could high-flying kites power your home? Companies are betting on computer-controlled, airborne wind energy for future power.

The Hi-Flier Kite Co. was no fly-by-night operation. It was launched in Decatur in the 1920s by Harvey A. Sellers. He was a paper supplies salesman who made kites out of samples to amuse kids ...

It’s kite flying time. Not paper kites held aloft with a string, but those high-flying birds called swallow-tailed kites and Mississippi kites sailing buoyantly on outstretched wings.

A sheet of paper, custom colored by the kite-flier with crayons, gets folded three times. A straw and a crepe paper tail are fastened with sticky-back labels. The string is attached -- and there you ...

The boy who flew those kites, and made them fly, is the man who manages a business, and makes it go. I appreciate the fact that the occupation of flying kites has been minimized.