China has quietly turned a childhood toy into a piece of heavy infrastructure, unveiling a giant power-generating kite that ...

Dave Herzig still has the page from a 1979 craft magazine that changed his life. It offered a simple way to build a better kite. A third of a century later, the guy known as "the Kite Man" is turning ...

In the 1920s, British Royal Air Force pilots over the Middle East recorded the first sightings of what they dubbed desert kites-massive patterns carved into rocky land, often resembling the famous ...

In Weifang, Shandong province, kites are not just toys. They symbolize both culture and an industry for the city. Widely known as the world capital of kites, Weifang has a history of flying kites ...

Any kid who’s ever flown a kite has learned the lesson: Once you can get the kite off the ground and high into the air, you’re more likely to find a steady breeze to keep it aloft. A fledgling wind ...

These are instructions to make a newspaper kite. Paper kites are somewhat fragile and can break easily, but they are fun and easy to make. You can make lots of them with just one newspaper. -- Color ...