An estimated 6,000-8,000 people turned out to Green Hill Park in Roanoke County with their kites flying high at the 24th annual Blue Ridge Kite Festival on Saturday.

It turns out that the results are pretty interesting when you combine a MINI Countryman JCW and a man in a flying squirrel suit. To show off the capabilities of the John Cooper Works Edition MINI ...

“They sent the best things they had.” “Kites were the first flying objects crafted by human hands,” writes National Air and Space curator Tom Crouch in his 2004 book Wings: A History of ...