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  2. Man-lifting kite - Wikipedia

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    A man-lifting kite is a kite designed to lift a person from the ground. Historically, man-lifting kites have been used chiefly for reconnaissance. Interest in their development declined with the advent of powered flight at the beginning of the 20th century. Recreational man-lifting kites gradually gained popularity through the latter half of ...

  3. Samuel Franklin Cody - Wikipedia

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    Man-lifting War Kite designed by Cody. It is not clear why Cody became fascinated by kite flying. Cody liked to recount a tale that he first became inspired by a Chinese cook; who, apparently, taught him to fly kites, whilst travelling along the old cattle trail. [9]

  4. Military radio antenna kites - Wikipedia

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    The United States Signal Corps for a time maintained three models of antenna lifting kites as standard equipment. They were listed in the Signal Corps Storage Catalogue as late as 1920. Kite KI-1, formerly designated the "folding Malay kite", was made of spruce rods glued and wired together, covered with cloth, measuring 60 by 60 inches. It was ...

  5. Unpowered aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Man-lifting kites were used in ancient China and Japan, often as a punishment for prisoners. Unmanned hot-air balloons and toy "bamboo-copters" are also recorded in Chinese history. The first manned free flight was in a hot-air balloon built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France in 1783.

  6. Kite types - Wikipedia

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    War kites designed by Samuel Franklin Cody (1867–1913) [109] [110] Conyne kites [111] Cooperative kites are kites made by more than one person with significant contributions by each person in the cooperation effort. [112] Cube kites (one or more) Cup kites Kites made mostly of cups, often paper or expanded polystyrene (EPS) Cursor kites

  7. Fixed-wing aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Kites were the precursors to the traditional aircraft, and were instrumental in the development of early flying craft. Alexander Graham Bell experimented with large man-lifting kites, as did the Wright brothers and Lawrence Hargrave. Kites had a historical role in lifting scientific instruments to measure atmospheric conditions for weather ...

  8. Grahame-White Type XV - Wikipedia

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    The Grahame White Type XV was a military trainer biplane produced in the United Kingdom before and during World War I. It is often referred to as the Box-kite, although this name more properly describes the Grahame-White Type XII, an earlier aircraft made by the company, from which the Type XV was derived.

  9. World War I - Wikipedia

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    Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."

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