The Fighter Kite Book!: A Complete Flight Manual for Single Line Maneuverable Kites

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Summary: An excellent guide to flying fighters...
Review: This is the book that kept my enthusiasm up while learning to fly a fighter. It's no coffee-table book, with simple line drawings only, but it does the trick at the right price.

If you already fly well, or have a group of friends to help, then this is still a good book because David Gomberg is a well-travelled kite-flyer, and there are snippets of fighter information here that you'll be unlikely to come across elsewhere. Fighter kites are multifaceted, quirky and unique, and he gets this impression over well. One of the best aspects of the book is the many many quotes/tips from flyers all over the world.

If you're looking for plans, then this is *not* really the book (there's just one simple plan, with little in the way of construction advice), instead look at the plans on the net or search for Philippe Gallot's classic book - and for a coffee-table book I'd choose Tal Streeter's "A Kite Journey Through India".

However, although both of those two books are also good at conveying the fun of fighters, neither gives anything like the practical information that this slim volume does on the actual techniques of *flying* a fighter.

PS: As well as the classic small fighters, there is also a short chapter on fighting with larger "Roks"