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• Kite types — Colorful delta wing kite Kites are tethered flying objects which fly by using aerodynamic lift, requiring wind, (or towing), for generation of airflow over the lifting surfaces. Contents 1 Kite …   Wikipedia

• Kite applications — The kite is used to do certain things; one kite or many kites are applied to achieve certain purposes, objectives, or tasks, that is: applications. Humans have applied the kite to bring perceived benefits during peace and war alike. New… …   Wikipedia

• Kite — s. [ [http://www.kitelife.com/magazine/issue39/altitude39/content.php Flying High, Down Under] When the kite line broke, the kites still received tension from the very long kite line.] The anchor point of the kite line may be static or moving… …   Wikipedia

• kite — kite1 kiter, n. kitelike, adj. /kuyt/, n., v., kited, kiting. n. 1. a light frame covered with some thin material, to be flown in the wind at the end of a long string. 2. any of several small birds of the hawk family Accipitridae that have long,… …   Universalium

• Hargrave box kite —        kite designed, built, and flown by the aeronautical pioneer Lawrence Hargrave (Hargrave, Lawrence) in the 1890s.       Hargrave began his experiments with kites in 1893. His goal was to build a kite so efficient that it would advance into… …   Universalium

• Man-lifting kite — Roald Amundsen, the polar explorer, is lifted from the ground using a man lifting kite during tests in 1909. Man lifter War Kite designed by …   Wikipedia

• Tetrahedral kite — A tetrahedral kite is a multicelled rigid box kite composed of tetrahedrally shaped cells. The cells are usually arranged in such a way that the entire kite is also a regular tetrahedron. The kite can be described as a compound dihedral kite as… …   Wikipedia

• Alexander Graham Bell — Infobox Person name = Alexander Graham Bell image size = 225px caption = Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell c. 1910 birth date = 3 March 1847 birth place = Edinburgh, Scotland, UK death date = death date and age|1922|8|2|1847|3|3|df=y death place …   Wikipedia

• Paravane (water kite) — The paravane is a towed winged (hydrofoiled) underwater object water kite that has found applications in a peace and war. The water kites have been used in sport fishing, commercial fishing, marine industry, scientific exploration, water play,… …   Wikipedia

• Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! — The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Veröffentlichung 1. Juni 1967 Label Parlophone / Capitol / EMI Format(e) LP, Vinyl, CD Genre(s) …   Deutsch Wikipedia