.... there was the 1990s. A time where kite makers would take any idea, throw some ripstop at it and see what stuck. In Ron Moulton and Pat Lloyd's "Kites: A Practical Handbook for the Modern Kite Flyer", a compendious tome to match Woydel Zing’s "Bath Sheets in Space" for breadth, they illustrated some of the ideas that excessive exposure to the sun and 50p-a-pint special offers could bring forth. Feel free to drink in the oddness.
Points are available to anyone that can name all of these kites.
Make no mistake - whilst some of these were Not Much Good, plenty worked well enough for the time, but once the Stranger came along and kites started lurching all over the place then their days were numbered. There probably are some good ideas to be harvested from this time though.
Mike.