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  2. Box kite - Wikipedia

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    The skin is drum-tight, a consequence of the unique tensioning system devised by Hargrave. A collapsed kite, rolled up for transport, lies on the ground. A box kite is a high-performance kite, noted for developing relatively high lift; it is a type within the family of cellular kites. The typical design has four parallel struts.

  3. Kite - Wikipedia

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    Kite flying in Hyderabad starts a month before this, but kite flying/fighting is an important part of other celebrations, including Republic Day, Independence Day, Raksha Bandhan, Viswakarma Puja day in late September and Janmashtami.

  4. Kite experiment - Wikipedia

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    The kite experiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect static ...

  5. Kite (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Because of this symmetry, a kite has two equal angles and two pairs of adjacent equal-length sides. Kites are also known as deltoids, [1] but the word deltoid may also refer to a deltoid curve, an unrelated geometric object sometimes studied in connection with quadrilaterals. [2] [3] A kite may also be called a dart, [4] particularly if it is ...

  6. Parafoil - Wikipedia

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    Parafoils see wide use in a variety of windsports such as kite flying, powered parachutes, paragliding, kitesurfing, speed flying, wingsuit flying and skydiving. [2] [4] [5] [6] The world's largest kite is a parafoil-variant. [7] Today, SpaceX uses steerable Parafoils to recover the fairings of their Falcon 9 rocket.

  7. Kite types - Wikipedia

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    (also known as a bird kite – a variant of the Malay kite) (not to be confused with the manned glider called the Kirby Kite, [207] which was a kite launched into a gliding or soaring session) (also not to be confused with the radio-controlled Airworld Kirby Kite scale glider, which has a kite life when being given a kited launch) [208]

  8. Man-lifting kite - Wikipedia

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    A kite in the form of a tethered parachute. A parafoil glider being tow-launched as a kite. A series of innovations in the late 20th and early 21st century revitalized interest in the field of people being lifted by kites for recreation. The growth of water skiing especially led to the idea of adding a kite, so that the skier could take off and ...

  9. Kiteboarding - Wikipedia

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    Hindenburg: a kite falling out of the air due to the loss of tension in the control lines, and therefore the loss of kite control. Hindenburging can be caused either by lack of wind or by the kite advancing to a position upwind of the kitesurfer in the wind window, also called "overflying the kite".