Authors: Peter Lynn
Date Submitted: May 31, 2004
Article Type: Journal

The latest kite is a soft, 6.5-by-10-meter Stars and Stripes, the prototype for what may be the new world’s largest kite. Our plan is to make one 25-by-40-meters (about 900 square meters, comfortably larger than the Mega-Byte or Mega-Ray which are each 635 square meters) and to fly it at various (mainly non-kite world) events around the globe.

We have now filed applications for two separate patents on the Flag style kite. By the usual system, these initial filings are in our home country (New Zealand) but will proceed to foreign filings as per the required timetable for international coverage. Actually, while they cover the key original ideas that I believe make kites of this form possible, these applications look to be much wider in scope are likely to have beneficial consequences for many other soft single line lines.

In the meantime, to make the design principles available to amateur kitemakers in an orderly manner without opening a door that could eventually prevent our enjoyment of any commercial benefits, we propose to offer consecutively numbered license labels free to kite clubs and associations. These groups will then be able to offer these labels to their members, on a one-at-a-time basis, relieving us of the administrative nightmare that doing all this from New Zealand would entail, and hopefully becoming a minor but useful source of income for the clubs. We will not provide plans with the label, but will work with bona fide clubs by offering helpful suggestions in preparing such plans.

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