The Viennese Kite Festival Fall 1997

The following pictures are taken from my videotapes of the festival. My special thanks go to Ernst KoflAIR of the Kite-O-Holix, who helped me to convert them into binary format.
Due to my Video8 equipment the quality is not as good as the scans of the photographs. I hope you like them though.

It can fly too!
Whenever the boys from Parndorf take their blue Cody kite to a festival, they always hear the same question from the audience: "Will the big blue one fly once again today?"
Well, and then they simply answer with a show like this.

Card
With this muliti-cell boxkite made of fluor-yellow Nylon fabric a certain kite club sent its greetings to the capitol city... :-)
Behind it there's a Roloplan kite, which claimed its place in the sky the whole day long.

One more Klejna
This is another mini kite by Manfred Klejna. The bee is just slightly bigger than two flat hands. Manfred had a whole collection of insect kites of this size with him. If the music wouldn't have been so loud then its buzzing sound, generated by a metal tape which is tightened at the back of the kite and amplified by the kite's body, could have been heard.

Strong wind
This Delta kite with a wingspan of approximately 10ft. had to carry a flag to be stable in the high wind. Aside of that a strong line was required, which it straightened with ease regardless of the numerous attached pennants.

Breathless
Sometimes there was so much going on, even the fattest cat in the world lost it's breath. Garfield the cat decorates a beautiful crafted quadline mattress.
The smudged shadow beneath is a wild-duck, moving its wings in a very realistic manner. We will see it again later.

Break
A couple of approaches of the Kite-O-Holix to show their ballet ended this way. One of the four NSRs caught with a single line kite and both come to the ground unluckily.

Motto
As in every year there were "One Sky One World" kite festivals all over the world on that October weekend. The background is simple: Kiteflying for peace. What easier could be done for this than something that gives nothing but fun? This kite reminds us about it. And it's nice too, isn't it?
Beneath it, the wild-duck we've seen with Garfield before, is spreading its wings agreeing.

Picturesque
I do admit, it looks like straight out of the grafics software. But I swear this is no fake. :-)
Since I barely have a clue about single-line kites, I can't tell how a construction like that is able to fly anyway. But the ship was obviously feeling pretty well up there in the sky. Later on its nearly entire black sister joined it.

Snowflake
... are these kites called, I believe. Here we see one at first in flight and then after its landing: