kitehorizonpoint

kite and wind does the work;

horizon is where the camera looks;

point for Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA

This page has my links to kite and weather websites.

Go to my aerial pictures,
SkyHiPoint , Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) index showing my aerial scenes from around central Wisconsin.

Or, Link to my original site of my railroad hobby pictures, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures

Links to other people's websites.
(My apologies if I didn't describe your sites very well.)

A Flickr picture site that showcases kite aerial photos, K A P

Great discussion page, Chris Benton's forum
Notes on Kite Aerial Photography (2011)

Interesting bit of history about a 49 lb aerial camera and kites in 1906. Before airplanes. Thanks, Max, for showing me this site.

Simon's KAP site is world famous. He has a large collection of pictures from around England. Castles and shipwrecks and whales and . . . . (2006)

http://www.fromakite.com/ (2007) by Craig Wilson, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
He is the author of 'Hanging by a Thread', a picture book of many great kite aerial scenes around Wisconsin.

Great Plains Aerial Photography 2005 good info on KAP, kites, pictures in the central plains.

KAPer E-magazine and it has a large page of links. 2005

Teddy Bear parachuting, maybe illegal in some locations, http://www.tedberets.co.uk/ (2009)

Intellicast weather forecasts and in the site are two day wind forecasts. Easiest way to view wind WAS link through KAPer link above. Also fairly fast to use surface/national/forecasts/winds to get same wind picture forecast. and note iNav quick nav shows on any page except their home page.

weather NOAA weather choose region, click on map for local forecast, then find the tab on lower right called Additional Forecasts & Information, and click the link for Hourly Weather Graph. Three day prediction. 2007

http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/WindSpeed.html

http://www.windfinder.com/ (2007) for coastal areas around the world, and a little Great Lakes shore prediction.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php
Sun and Moon Data for one day (2007)

Brooxes Kite and helpful knot and hardware pages.(2005)

New Jersey area aerial photography http://www.riverpix.com/index4.html with http://www.riverpix.com/river.html Delaware River picture series and monitor contrast/ brightness calibration chart.

North Carolina commercial photog by 40 foot pole and tripod and kite, Elevated Pic (2006)

Digital Sky Pilot , kite and balloon KAP in Michigan

Eagle Eye Photgraphy Aerial Blimp Photog Minnesota (2006)

http://intergizemycompany.com/aerialviews/index.htm
is selling aerial pictures from 70mm negatives, for example, has 9000 in Wisconsin alone, a million from across the US, 2006

KAP Electric with electronic gadgets. (2006)

Alaska and the Marine Highway ferry pictures taken with a kite flying from the stern deck. (2006)

Wisconsin Kiters Club with a schedule of kite festivals (2006)

www.aircatcher.com/ 2007 mapping use of kap

And in 2008, gyro-kite line-less remote control for low-wind days,
http://www.electricflights.com/hawkeyemainpage.html , starting at $175 without the camera. Compare price to just a kite.

http://www.steadywinds.com/ also has kite surfing and skiing, links, home page takes time to load videos. 2007

Fun With Wind store, (good Rok 2005, good sled 2007)

www.peoplekites.com , sled and interesting line winder 2007 sold thru above.

HISTORICAL NOTE

Interesting aviation notes I have read.
The Graf Zeppelin (dirigible) gross weight was 236 tons.
Payload 12 tons (usually mail) and 20 passengers.
Crew about 40.
Cruise at 80 mph.
Range before refueling (diesel engines) and re-gassing (hydrogen for lifting) was up to 10,000 miles and / or 12 days.
In 1929 it flew around the world in 21 days with just 3 stops: Germany, Japan, US.
Cruising altitude about 1000 feet.
Regular route Germany to Brazil, 10 days one way.
Flew across the Atlantic Ocean 144 times.
Total miles flown: over 1,000,000
5 days to cross the Atlantic from Germany to the United States.
For airplanes, an around-the-world speed record was set in 1931; 8 days 15 hours;
by Wiley Post and navigator Harold Gatty.

Measuring distance
The width of your index finger is 1/100 radians, if you extend your hand.
A most accurate measurestick is multistory houses. If three floors are one fingerwidth high, you are exactly one kilometer away.
In kapping world: If the width of my 1.5 meter flowform is half fingerwidth, I am at 300 meters.

Performance kite web-store (2006)

GONE WITH THE WIND online catalog and guide to kite types, 2005 (beware, my lost my order in 2007)

KiteZ 2005

www.amoka.com/ lake Erie wind surf supplies and stable parafoil 2007

KiteZ Plans of kites, a part of KiteZ site above, 2005

Peter's Kite Site 2005

GKPI kites outlet store (2005)

Two Rivers, WI store www.uniqueflyingobjects.com

http://www.goflyakite.com/ kite importer

http://www.hobbylinc.com/prods/f_gfk.htm internet hobby sales

http://www.coastalkites.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?&Screen=SFNT sales

http://www.kiteandwind.com/kite_shop (2005) yahoo ad link

www.WorldWindKites.com , store 2007

www.premierkites.com/ no sales but good web catalog

kiteheaven.com , said to be portal to kite stores, a link from yahoo advertising, was big slow site that never finished loaded... (2006)

http://www.kitestailstoys.com/ (2005)

www.pictureprettykites.com (2006,7) $28 and $43 Premier sleds

www.worldwidekites.com (2006)

www.giftofwings.com/ many aviation minded gifts and some kites made in Milwaukee 2007

intothewind ?

kitesamerica.com 2007

onlykite.com

www.kiteplace.com , 2007

www.solarbotics.com/motors_accessories/gear_motors/ for small powerful gearmotors at lower cost than servos.2009

kiteskiteskites.com 2007 cute kites

www.mackinawkiteco.com/ of Michigan 2007 plus festival news

http://www.hobbylinc.com/prods/f.htm?g+kite , 2007

http://kites.toplisted.net/site.php?site_id=1500&ajax=true , 2007 top 50 kite sites/sellers

http://www.uniqueaeriography.com/index.html for hire, California (2005)

http://www.overflite.com/ small and homemade hot air balloons.2007

Floatograph balloons, 40' tripod, 90' masts for photography and antennas. Costly, industrial strength.

Southern Balloon Works of Florida, USA (2006)

www.allsopphelikites.com for the helikite, helium balloon with kite wings that works even in a wind.

For an industrial-strength method of filling weather balloons, look at Alumifuel Power www.alumifuelpowerinc.com 2010

http://www.nexgenwind.com/ , United Kingdom portable towers and poles (2005)

http://aero-photo.ca/ 33 foot, 50 foot, 60 foot tripod / poles Canada about $2000. (2008)

American Images Wisconsin airplane aerial photog, and web page shows Lake Dubay rr bridge, 2005

http://www.aerialimages-photo.com/Firstpage.htm , Illinois by airplane

http://www.redwingaerials.com/index.html , Texas by airplane

Kites R Us UW Madison site Flying High, showing 'wind tram' string-following payload lifter.

http://cem.colorado.edu/archives/fl1997/ted.html another picture of a wind tram for a several kilometer kite string for scientific use.

Pole aerial photgraphy in Scotland. 2005

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The wunderground weather site shows dozens of Personal Weather Stations for every state
breaking into the wunderground Wisconsin weather page link, Wisconsin local cities weather current conditions report

Stevens Point area weather station has cloud height report and links to some stations also listed below

Wisconsin Rapids and area stations and a little radar map. fast.

Plover weather coop
stevens point airport
stevens point south of RR depot (suspect wind average is low)
Blenker County S Mead Flowage
rome / nekoosa
nekoosa but broken a lot in 2008
Pittsville DOT, looks better in 2010. started 2008?
wausau
abbotsford 3 mi east of
wautoma
stanley
Manitowoc
Ludington Michigan
Great Lakes Marine Forcast

Plover Weather Wisconsin, USA

with sky camera and a nice collection of sattelite and radar and local weather.

Intellicast
and try these links to wind pages:
Windcast for Midwest US
wind forcast Menominee Mich for Wisconsin
Midwest current wind but not windcast

confirm this is a good station: Raw's Rome / Nekoosa / 13 and 10 mile ave
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=MNKAW3

wind links
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/gfslamp/meteoform.php#maptop

Noa weather, http://www.weather.gov/

http://windmapper.com/?Loc=GL

Weatherblink is downloadable for your website 2010

cwa cent wis airport www.fly-cwa.org

Or go to my original site of my railroad pictures, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures

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Wrote April 13, 2007; updated July 8, 2010