River City Kites

04/03/2025

The Sculptures In The Sky Kite Festival has been cancelled this year. Despite a hugely successful 6+ years of flying kites and picnicking with families, attracting a more diverse population each year, the Sculpture Fields@has decided not to continue. 😟🪁what do you think?

01/12/2025

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11/03/2024

Sculpture Fields today from 2-6.

River City Kites is hosting/providing a kite making and flying event on Sunday at the Sculpture Fields of Montague Park (Chattanooga) in honor of ancestors and All Saints Day. Come make a kite or take a ready made kite to fly in the park Sunday afternoon (2-6).
River City Kites está organizando/proporcionando un evento de fabricación de cometas y vuelo el domingo en los Campos de Esculturas de Montague Park (Chattanooga) en honor a los antepasados y al Día de Todos los Santos. Ven a hacer una cometa o toma una cometa ya hecha para volar en el parque el domingo por la tarde (2-6). Gracis!

10/29/2024

River City Kites is hosting/providing a kite making and flying event on Sunday at the Sculpture Fields of Montague Park (Chattanooga) in honor of ancestors and All Saints Day. Come make a kite or take a ready made kite to fly in the park Sunday afternoon (2-6).
River City Kites está organizando/proporcionando un evento de fabricación de cometas y vuelo el domingo en los Campos de Esculturas de Montague Park (Chattanooga) en honor a los antepasados y al Día de Todos los Santos. Ven a hacer una cometa o toma una cometa ya hecha para volar en el parque el domingo por la tarde (2-6). Gracis!

10/11/2024

Has anyone ever seen a kite like this one? It is made with 1 - 8.5x11” sheet of paper plus “broom” grass which grows wild all over the southeast. Bridle is attached to the kite in the four corners which connect at the tow point. I think a three-point bridle would work as well attached to two top corners and the middle. A good friend, Anthony Crutcher, showed this to me and he was taught by his father when he was a kid.

10/10/2024

Well, I got a kite stuck in a tree yesterday. Really irks me. I haven’t lost a kite in a tree in decades. This one is one I made, a Cody kite that flew wonderfully. Its bridle legs dropped ove a tall branch at the top of a large pin oak tree.
One pic shows me trying to lift it off the branch using an Eddy kite. Just wasn’t enough wind but today the winds are stronger. Unfortunately, the string broke yesterday so I can’t use that to guide the carabiner up to the kite.
Any suggestions?

09/11/2024

I am at the American kitefliers Association convention this week in Seaside, Oregon. Here are some pics from the first 3 days.

08/20/2024

Been working like a dog on a few kites recently:
A Hargrave-Saul’s Barrage Kite and a CeeWan Geo-Pointer, plus 2 sewn fighters and a Voiklander linen and wood kite still to come.

06/08/2024

Nap time.

06/06/2024

I've been busy doing kite making workshops the last few weeks. I estimated having helped about 300 kids make kites, 100 in the last two days. Here are a few for starters - more to come.

05/21/2024

In my store I sold boomerangs and tops, and I thought about selling marbles, but this video news story takes it to a whole new level.

05/14/2024

Hey, hey, hey! I saw him; he was working. Go Dylan!

Dylan is working Tallboy Tuesday! $3 Tallboys all night long. Come say hi👋