Portsmouth International Kite Festival
Saturday 23rd - Monday 25th August 2003
Location: Southsea Common, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Organised by: The
Kite Society
This Page: Introduction | Peter
Lynn | Single Line Kites
Page 2: Revolution
Megateams | Aquilonisti Vulandra
| Misc | Team
Flic | Links
Introduction
The 12th Portsmouth International Kite Festival had beautiful
warm weather, blue skies and enough wind to keep all the kite fliers happy.
There were some fantastic displays and demonstrations, particularly the
array of large inflatable kites and the Revolution Megateams. There was
so much here that this report is split onto two pages. We hope you enjoy
it as much as we did.
Peter Lynn
Peter Lynn had a busy weekend. He flew his new design Flag
kites only to be told that the Union Jack was actually 'flying in distress'
i.e. the wrong way up (oops). Then he had his hat auctioned off on Saturday
night (bought by a member of Team Flic). He was given a new spangly purple
hat to wear, apparently salvaged from the field on Sunday morning, which
he proceeded to wear for the whole day. What a jolly good sport.
Single Line Kites
There were so many different single line kites to be seen
this year at Portsmouth, including the Sun Kite by Pedro Gonzalez of Valencia,
Spain, which won the Kite Society award for 'Best Emergency Sunlight'
(not that it was needed much with this weather). It was Pedro's first
time ever in England, and with his brother Esteban they brought a bit
of Spanish sunshine to Portsmouth...
Kite fliers from all over Europe participated, including
Bernhard Dingwerth of Germany with his Lurchi and Lucifer kites, the Didak
family from Belgium, Jos Valcke, Marco Casadio, Janneke Groen from Holland,
Gruppo Aquilonisti Vunlandra, as well as members of the Brighton Kite
Fliers, the Midlands Kite Fliers, Avon Kite Fliers and White Horse Kite
Fliers amongst others.
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| Sun Kite |
Lots of large inflatable kites! |
Roly the AKF whale being harassed by Revolutions |
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| Happy flowers |
Lurchi the Salamander |
Beautiful skies to fly in |
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| Geckos |
Panda bear |
Bright Bol |
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| Marc Vanden Broeck's Dragon & Geckos parafoils |
Rokkaku fight action |
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| Pretty kite stack |
Roy Martin flying a Janneke Groen design silk kite |
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| Rolf Zimmermann Lobster |
Merman by Phil McConnachie |
More happy flowers |
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| Lucifer |
Bertie Bassett eyes up Morticia |
Pyro Delta |
Lots more on Page 2 >
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