Kite Biographies
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Buteo Huang Taiwanese interior designer Huang has come to kites with alarming energy. From traditional designs he now follows his own vision, with avant-garde... |
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Clive Hart Author of the authoritative, Kites, An Historical Survey, Hart has written extensively on the pre-history of flight. He is a professor of... |
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Doug Hagaman An early specialist in the design and execution of the parafoil, Doug corresponded with Domina Jalbert and other early experimenters of the form... |
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Eve Hanney England’s “kiteflying granny”, Hanney has traveled extensively in China and witnessed the recent evolution of kite activity there. She has an... |
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Falk Hilsenbek Now an active member of the European historical kite scene, Hilsenbek was inspired by Diem and Schmidt’s Drachen mit Geschicte. He used it as... |
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Francis Hall Photographer Hall made several trips to the Washington International Kite festival in the late 1980s and documented the event’s early days... |
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser A world-famous contemporary artist, Hundertwasser is known in the kite world for his collaborations with Japanese kite maker Masaaki Sato. Using... |
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Gary Hinze Kite researcher, writer, and flyer, Gary is one of the active flyers who provide valuable feedback about kite designs, workshop plans, or kite... |
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George Ham The “Mayor of the Green” in San Francisco’s Marina Green district, Ham was a fixture flying all manner of parafoils and windsocks throughout the... |
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Iqbal Husain An avid collector of kite images in Japanese ukiyo-e and e-hon (woodblock prints and picture books), Hussain is one of the... |







