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- Breaking the Altitute Record with a Kite – Ali –
Bob Moore’s report on breaking the world kite altitude record in 2014. On September 23rd 2014 a group of 4 Australian kite enthusiasts flew a kite to a claimed 16,038 feet above the launch point. The flight took place at an air field on a 50,000 acre sheep farm called Cable Downs, in Western NSW, Australia. This was the venue …
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Geographic: Australia
Significance: Scientific
Kite Type: Flat
- Article on Wilhelm Mueller in The Intelligence War in Latin America: 1914 to 1922 – Ali –
This is a biographical reference on the individual Wilhelm Mueller, who wrote a wonderful document on Japanese kites Der Papier Drachen Of Japan.
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Geographic: Japan
Significance: Cultural
Kite Type: Flat
- Wilhelm Mueller – Ali –
A biography on Wilhelm Mueller in the website of the German HIstory for Nature and Folkart of East Asia.
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Geographic: Japan
Significance: Cultural
Kite Type: Flat
- 1992 JKA Japan Kite Tour – Ali –
Invited guests of the Japan Kite Foundation included Americans, Left to right, Modegi, Elmer Wharton, (Illinois) Don and Ron Collado (twins, Hawaii) and Charlie Sotich (Illinois)
Post Type: Collection
Geographic: Japan
Significance: Art, Cultural, Historical
Kite Type: Bowed, BoxCellular, Figure, Flat
- 1992 JKA Japan Kite Tour – Ali –
Elmer Wharton of Chicago, hobbyist kite maker friend of Charlie Sotich. Invited to the 1992 Japanese Kite Association tour
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Geographic: United States
Significance: Art
Kite Type: Bowed, Figure
- 1992 JKA Japan Kite Tour – Ali –
A photo of miniature kite maker Charlie Sotich of Chicago (now deceased) at a kite dinner at the Aomori Japan Kite Festival
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Geographic: Japan
Significance: Art
Kite Type: Flat
- 1992 JKA Japan Kite Tour – Ali –
Aomori Japan Kite Festival, Don and Ron Collado (twins, Hawaii) and Modegi of the Japanese Kite Association.
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Geographic: Japan
Significance: Art
Kite Type: Bowed, Figure
- 1992 JKA Japan Kite Tour – Ali –
It was an annual honor to be invited to a Japan Kite Association meeting tour of Japan. Part of the tour was to be the guest of Ms. T. Sato in Aomori, Japan to learn about the large festival kitemaking done in the region. This is the year that Charlie Sotich was invited to do a kitemaking exchange of his …
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Geographic: Japan, United States
Significance: Art
Kite Type: Bowed, Flat
- 1992 JKA Japan Kite Tour – Ali –
It was an annual honor to be invited to a Japan Kite Association meeting tour of Japan. Part of the tour was to be the guest of Ms. T. Sato in Aomori, Japan to learn about the large festival kitemaking done in the region. This is the year that Charlie Sotich was invited to do a kitemaking exchange of his …
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Geographic: United States
Significance: Art
Kite Type: BoxCellular
- 1992 JKA Japan Kite Tour – Ali –
It was an annual honor to be invited to a Japan Kite Association meeting tour of Japan. Part of the tour was to be the guest of Ms. T. Sato in Aomori, Japan to learn about the large festival kitemaking done in the region. This is the year that Charlie Sotich was invited to do a kitemaking exchange of his …
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Geographic: Japan, United States
Significance: Art, Cultural
Kite Type: Bowed, Figure, Flat