6th Streatham Common Kite Day
Easter Sunday 20th April 2003
Location: Streatham Common
Organised by: Bob Colover
The Streatham Common Kite Day was once again a success,
with surprisingly good weather (despite the gloomy forecast) and lots
of wind! The choice of date - Easter Sunday - also ensured that lots of
families attended the event.
Bob Colover once again organised a variety of events that
took place throughout the day, from guest kite flyers and teams, including
the Brighton Kite Flyers, Andrew Beattie, Team Spectrum, Carl and James
Robertshaw, Team Matrix Management, Team Adrenalize, and Ron Moody with
his Indian fighter kites.
The wind was quite strong and blustery throughout the day,
which meant that the teams used vented kites, and lots of care! Dunstable
Kites' stall was busy all day with people purchasing kites, then returning
for repairs.
The Brighton Kite Flyers' club kites, the Peter Lynn Teddy
Bear and Octopus, flew over Streatham for most of the day, joined by Andrew
Beattie's Manta Ray and Gecko kites (still with the desert dust from Ivanpah,
USA on them from his trip there last week!).
Veronica the octopus made it out of the bag briefly in the
morning, but after the Manta Ray's pilot kite broke free in the blustery
winds, and the Gecko flirted with a tree, Veronica was swiftly put away.
Andrew later buggied in the arena, using Veronica as a traction kite (a
trick he learnt at Ivanpah), which was interesting... Andrew would like
to say a big thank you to the person who returned his pilot kite, neatly
folded in a bag, as it had drifted away after breaking free, and he thought
he would never see it again!
| Andrew Beattie Gallery |
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Andrew Beattie: happy when holding onto the string of a kite...
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...even one this big!
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George the Gecko takes off, being watched by the Manta Ray
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Simon Hennessey helps Andrew untie some knots
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Andrew wonders whether to put another kite up...
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...but decides instead to show us his new car number plate!
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| Scenes around the Common |
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A family day out
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Carl Robertshaw's Delta Serpents
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Dunstable Kites stall
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| Brighton Kite Flyers' teddy bear and octopus |
James Robertshaw's Revolution display
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Octopus being brought back down to earth
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Team Adrenalize bring out their power kites
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| Pepsi readies himself for the challenge ahead! |
Preparing to launch the stack of Flexifoils |
Here he goes... |
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| Up!... |
Up!... |
...and away! |
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| Team Matrix Management |
Carl from Team Spectrum demonstrating how to fly two
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Video:
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Streatham 2003: Running time:
62 seconds.
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streatham2003.mp4
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Links:
Streatham Festival Report 2002
Streatham Festival Report 2001
Streatham Festival Report 2000
Andrew Beattie
Brighton Kite Flyers
Team Adrenalize
Carl Robertshaw's
KiteStudio
Dunstable
Kites website
Dunstable Kites Shop Review
Team SPECTRUM
Kite Displays
Team
Matrix Management
Streatham
Common Kite Day webpage (Roy Reed)
Streatham
Society
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