It’s shocking how many different ways you can make a kite, and how many different materials you can use to build it. It is also shocking how destructive a strong wind can be to any form or material.

Imagine a flotilla of glowing kites that indicate if the air is good or bad on any given day. That’s the vision of Float Beijing. Created by a pair of students from Carnegie Mellon University and ...

On a recent day in August in a field near Munich, Germany, a group of engineers launched a kite-like electric plane into the air and watched for the first time as it flew in figure eights in the sky.

It’s hard to believe how fast this wonderful summer of 2015 is passing by. It’s equally hard to believe that Labor Day weekend will bring the 10th annual Kites Over Lake Michigan festival to Neshotah ...

The SP80 and Syroco teams have both got their remarkable boats on the water. Looking like a pair of alien spaceships, and pulled by ultra-fast kites instead of sails on masts, both these machines are ...