Kite Flying

Well the other day I took the boys to the park to fly the "Dragon" kite - this is a very difficult kite to fly since it looks like a dragon - wings and all.

While I was at the park there were children of all ages playing on the slides, swings and other items at the park. I was pretty windy and I have not flown this kite in about 4 years - I think. I was having a hard time keeping the kite up - it lkept wanting to take a nose dive to the ground and I was not able to stop it. It seemed like the wind would get inder one wing, shift the balance of the kite and send it to the ground with a great big thud.

While I was trying to fly the kite I heard this young girl on the playground say "He does not know how to fly a kite". I really wanted to turn around and tell her if she could do any better then to go home and get HER Dragon kite and bring it on, but she might just do that. I was finally able to get he kite up for a little while but when I attempted to let it go higher CRASH!!!!

Oh well, I will have to try this kite when no little children are around - maybe I will have better luck.

Ever since then Eoin has been bugging me to let him fly a kite - Today I told the boys that if they were good I would buy them a kite and we could go fly it. Where is that little girl when you have an EASY kite to fly? That's what I Thought !!!!!

Here are some picutres of Eoin and Liam flying the Iron Man kite:

Eoin Flying Kite

Iron Man Kite

Eoin is actually getting the kite in the air for Liam after it hit the ground.

Liam is actually doing a very good job holding the kite up in the air.

Eoin learned how to keep the kite in the air really fast. He learned how to get it to go higher when it started to dive on him.

Eoin is flying the kite and I am filming it, it takes a nose dive to the ground so I go to get it. When I get it in the air you will see it go by a tree, the tail actually got stuck in the tree for a second or two then it almost hit a house. Eoin was able to recover the kite and he goi it back up to full height.

The tail on this kite must be at least 6 feet long - that's probably 4 times larger than the kite.

Full height - no zoom - this kite is really high

Eoin is concentrating on holding the kite - I almost think he is getting bored poor child

This is at full zoom for the camera

Liam is having a ball.

Shortly after this the kite hit the ground and while Eoin was attempting to get it airborn again, it wrapped around a light pole. Time to bring the kite in for the day.