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  2. Military radio antenna kites - Wikipedia

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    The British Royal Navy experimented with kite raising antennae on HMS Good Hope in 1903, using a box kite designed by Samuel Franklin Cody. A 300-foot kite raised antenna increased their radio range from 60 or 70 miles to 110 miles. [7] The United States Navy conducted kite antenna experiments on the torpedo boats USS Stringham and USS Bailey ...

  3. Kite types - Wikipedia

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    Show kites are one category of display kite. Skating kites See Kite skating [328] Sled kites include the Buda Jewish Kite of 1904, [329] the Scott and Allison Sleds ...

  4. Kite - Wikipedia

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    By 549 AD, paper kites were certainly being flown, as it was recorded that in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission. Ancient and medieval Chinese sources describe kites being used for measuring distances, testing the wind, lifting men, signaling, and communication for military operations.

  5. Kite applications - Wikipedia

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    Barrage kites were used to protect shipping during the Second World War. [35] [36] Kites and kytoons were used for lofting communications antenna. [37] Submarines lofted observers in rotary kites. [38] The Rogallo parawing kite [39] and the Jalbert parafoil kite were used for governable parachutes (free-flying kites) to deliver troops and ...

  6. Kiteboarding - Wikipedia

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    Twintip boards and kites with good relaunch and a wide wind range are commonly used. Freestyle: The kite and board are used to get big air (jumps) so that various tricks can be done while airborne. This style also used for competitive events and is free-format and "go anywhere". Smaller twintip boards and kites with good boost and hangtime are ...

  7. Man-lifting kite - Wikipedia

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    In the 1820s British inventor George Pocock developed man-lifting kites, using his own children in his experimentation. [8]In the early 1890s, Captain B. F. S. Baden-Powell, soon to become president of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, developed his "Levitor" kite, a hexagonal-shaped kite intended to be used by the army in order to lift a man for aerial observation or for lifting ...

  8. Climbing Kites launches new four milligram drink to comply ...

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    Climbing Kites is among 10 companies that sued to block enforcement of the law, arguing in part it is at odds with federal legalization of beverages and edibles containing hemp-derived THC.But a ...

  9. Sport kite - Wikipedia

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    A sport kite, also commonly known as a stunt kite, is a type of multiline kite that can be maneuvered in the air. A related kite, also controllable and used for recreation, but capable of generating a significant amount of pull and used for providing movement, is the power kite .

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