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Tethered Airfoil R&D

  Saturday all the fighter flyers were tuning up for the match at 10:00.
The wind still hadn't let up.  In for a rough match.  Marie drubbed me
two to nill in the first round so I was out for the day.  I helped out
catching runaway kites and reels downwind for a while until my friends
from dinner the night before came by and I spent the rest of the match
explaining fighter kites to them.

  That afternoon Ludo made a very intricate fringed paper bird kite.
Facinating.

  Dinner at the WSIKF banquet.  They had a number of items out for silent
auction.  You write down your name and bid and the next person outbids
you for each item until 8:00.  As the time limit approached, there was
a great deal of manouvering, application of knees & elbows and possibly
a few teeth endangered proximate to the more popular items.  Johnny came
out of the melee with title to a set of wooden Japanese spinning tops.

  Mr. Stiles was making the rounds in a green top hat and blue-gray
waistcoat.  Philippe began trailing along behind, waving and smirking
at everyone behind his back until Superman clued Mr. Stiles in.
Spoilsport  ;)

  The auction finally got underway with a large number if items including
a long fringed tube tail from Dave Colbert, a custom built bamboo knife
from Jim Day, the dragon scarf, headbands and fabric.  Too much to
enumerate.  Then the marvelous dyed hapi coat from Barb Wright with a
fighter kite motif.  Hadda have it, and eventually outbid everyone else  ;)
A number of kiters from the area have Barbs' hapi coats, each one a unique
design, and I've been admiring them for years.  I'm hapi  ;)
-- 
"I'm Crrrrushing Your Head!" Claims Paper Boy "Crrush, Crrush!"

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