Some thrill-seekers are taking the phrase "Go fly a kite!" to new heights. That's right, kiting is making a comeback — with a twist. A growing number of daredevils are adding the childhood wind toys ...

Sammy David peered up at his kite, 120 feet high in the sky, wing-tip to wing-tip with three others, hovering on a horizontal line. He wanted to spin his kite 90 degrees in a move called "the blender.

Next to the diamond-shaped clunkers of yore, new delta-winged sport kites fly like an F-22. These dual-line beauties replace dowel frames, plastic sails, and cotton cord with nearly indestructible ...

"Ninety percent of kiteboarding is kite control," Markus Schale, owner of Kiteboarding School of Maui, says. Beach-based lessons allow beginners to practice with special training kites that have short ...

VALENCIA, Calif. -- Tom Kite birdied seven of his final nine holes on Saturday to take the lead heading into the final round at the AT&T Classic. Kite fired an 8-under 64 in the second round, shooting ...

Rob Lukin may struggle to walk every day, but that does not stop him from flying down the beach at up to 90kph. For the past 12 years, the Port Lincoln man has been doing the extreme sport of ...

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Lisa Willoughby can see the wind. Not only that, she can see the wind before it becomes the wind. Willoughby will be flying a kite somewhere — near her home on the Jersey Shore, ...

July 14, 2006 — -- At the height of summer, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday the recall of a type of kite tube, a large inflatable device that lets people ride behind a ...

Despite the images of a kite surfer being slammed into a building in Fort Lauderdale during Hurricane Fay, some kite surfers want the world to know the sport is actually quite safe. Kite surfers often ...

The sport of kite flying, once a culturally significant activity in the provincial capital, has now become a deadly one due to bad governance. It will not be an exaggeration to claim that the Basant ...