Various
types of kites exist,
depending on such features as materials, shape, use, or skill
required to operate. A modified
parachute
that has a positive
lift/drag ratio
is a kite. A tethered body that gains a positive lift/drag ratio
upon being towed in some media is a kite. Kites have a
wing body and a kite line; the kite line is moored to a
fixed or moving body which could even be the kite line itself; the
moving body could be a falling payload or a human pilot, as in some
hang gliders. Kites of very low stable lift/drag ratio are only
rarely treated as kites, but rather as streamers and
flags. Kites may fly in
air,
water or other media. A deflection off the
direction of the ambient stream obtains because of the shape of the
kite's wing. New types of kites continue to be invented and
designed.
Dominant material typing
Kites are often classified by the dominant
material used to make the main body of the kite (
plastic, animal skin,
wood,
metal,
composite,
paper, metal foil, synthetic
textile,
newspaper,
rip-stop nylon,
nylon,
Dacron,
steel,
aluminum). Some kiters
pride themselves on being successful in making the main kite body
out of only one type of material (excusing glues, bonding agents,
bridle lines), for example a
Styrofoam-only kite, an
aluminum-foil-only
Rogallo kite, a
paper-only kite, an ice-only kite, a balsa-wood-only kite.
Mixed-material kites may have one dominant material but some other
secondary material as well; this is the usual case. A kite whose
dominant material is
tissue paper may
have various kinds of stiffening framing sticks that are not tissue
paper but perhaps made of
rattan,
reed,
bamboo, tree wood,
fiberglass,
carbon
fiber, sandwiched
aerogel, plastic
drinking
straws,
glass,
metal, grass or other material. Sellers use the categories "paper
kites" and "plastic kites" to indicate the dominant material.
Wing character
Kites vary by the nature of the main wing part (monoplane, flexible
sail, stiffened flexible sail, rigid wing, biplane, multiplane,
ram-air inflated, closed bladder gas inflated, rotating wing,
object mimic (of animals, birds, boats, airplanes, insects, people,
places, things). For example, the main body of the kite—the wing
part—may be made up of inflated gas bladders to give endless
shapes; here are three references to such wings: Such
closed-bladder inflated wings differ from open-cell ram-air
inflation like the Domina Jalbert
parafoil
kite. Open single-surface flexible sails are also often considered
to be simply inflated by the wind.The wing of the kite is also
characterized as to its
aspect ratio.
Low-aspect ratio kites are tall compared to the front width of the
kite's wing. High-aspect ratio kites have wings that are wide
compared to their height or depth.Also, the wing character
construction type is frequently distinguished: stick-and-sail,
monolithic solid (foam, wood, metal, plastic), inflated bladder,
monocoque, highly trussed, or sail-only soft fully flexible; or a
hybrid mix of fundamental construction types. Finally, wing
character is typed by level of craftsmanship, from low to
high.
Number of sub-kite units in the kite system or team
display
Image:1O20-rotated.jpg|Dragon (train of
sub-kites)Image:KiteTrainBedford2007.JPG|A train of little kites at
the Bedford International Kite Festival,
2007.Image:Kite-trains-shanghai.jpg|vendors selling kite trains in
ShanghaiA kite may be made of a single
wing, or several wings, or several sub-kite units; in such cases,
the literature denotes several types of kite trains and coteries. A
collection of kites in a kite system being flown as one system or
one collection has its own challenges. Perhaps the most famous kite
system type with multiple sub-kite units is the dragon kite.
Man-lifting kites have also used a collection of kites to achieve
the lift required to lift one or more persons. Miniature kites or
larger kites may be connected in various ways to make one kite
system. The arrangement patterns are important: train, chain of
unit kites each of which has its own main tether, chain, coterie,
single-branching, multiple branching, and combinations of patterns.
When a kite train is bi-anchored (various angles to the wind), then
a rainbow arch pattern can be formed; these arch kite trains are
frequently seen at kite festivals. The "ladder" mill dynamic kite
chain system is seriously being proposed for utility-level
electricity generation. World records for the number of kites in a
kite train are to be found in the literature. Teams of people are
frequently used to fly kites of high-count sub-kite units.
When the kite system's unit kites are controlled by a team of kite
pilots in one integral display, then the number of team pilots and
the number of kites are noted: two-pilot teams, three-pilot teams,
etc. A large team might tow one very large kite. In a team like
The Flying Squad of nine kite pilots, each person might
fly his own sub-kite while as a team their kites form unified
displays
[625921]. One pilot might simultaneously pilot several
kites; the pilot with the several kites forms one kite system of
perhaps two or three or more kites in the system
[625922];
A kite train using a single main line to which sub-kite units are
attached is one pattern; however, two through lines can be the base
for sub-units, or three lines, or more. A stack of parafoil kites
is a fairly common kite train; Dave Culp was one early pioneer who
tugged boats with stacks of parafoil kites; one was a 5-stack of
Flexifoil kites
[625923].
[625924] Parafoil stacks have existed with over 200
kite units.
Dominant application
Kites vary based on their dominant application. These include play,
recreation, art, meditation, exercise, industrial use, fishing,
mining, electricity generation, underwater military, sport,
advertising, passenger transport, cargo transport, seeding vehicle,
tug, weapon, fighting, night operations, fishing, mechanical power
for running machines or performing tasks, sport or survival
fishing,
aerial photography,
taxi, competitions of art or aerobatics, performance art, bridge
building, air sampling, antenna acting, signaling, billboard,
messaging, rescue, entertainment, teaching art, teaching crafts,
teaching aerodynamics, beacon, attracting attention, gift,
meditation, speed racing, fetching, dropping, artistic ballet,
loudspeaker lofting, logging crane, and more).
Buoyancy
Kites vary based on relative
buoyancy:
lighter than air or
heavier than air; lighter than the medium in which
they interact for lift or heavier than the medium in which they
interact. A kytoon is a kite that can be lighter than air (being
filled with hydrogen or helium gas); in winds whose kite lifting
qualities are otherwise insufficient for staying aloft, it will
experience the necessary lift because of its lighter-than-air
balloon qualities. There are also heavier-than-air balloon kites or
kytoons; these are usually filled with air rather than helium or
hydrogen and stay aloft only with a wind suitable for kiting. There
are similar devices for use in other media, like water, such as
water buoys that "water kite" in a stream while anchored to the
stream bed or a submerged anchor. What is said of air is also true
for other-than-air media, as referenced by Dave Culp, kite expert,
in his 21st century KiteShip patent.
Underwater kites or hydro kites have the same typing as to
buoyancy. When the underwater kite is less dense than water, then
when the kite is not flying down, the kite wing will float up;
alternatively, controls may invert so that lift is up even while
the lighter-than-water kite is also rising for buoyancy reasons. In
cases where the kite is denser than water and it stops flying under
control, the kite wing will sink. When the kite system has buoyancy
controls, then—flying or not—the direction of the non-towed kite
can be controlled. A tailing buoy that is a lighter-than-water
water kite is an example of a water kite analogous to air kites
which are lighter-than-air kytoons or helikites (helium
kites).
Control
Kites can be typed according to the method of controling the motion
of the kite's wing body (single-line, dual-line, three-line
control, four-line control, n#-line control, radio-controlled,
mixed-type control, fused-controls, laser control, torque-line
control, part-breakage control, powered controls, aerodynamic
controls). Is there a robot on board the kite's main body that
alters the bridle or kite's surface or the kite's boundary layer
flows in order to control the kite's flight? Is there a person on
board the kite's main body to control the kite's motions? Dave Culp
describes Kite Tugs with crews of people on the kite or kytoon who
control the kite's tugging of commercial cargo ships in order to
reduce fuel costs for shipping by making use of wind power. Is
there animal or plant life on board the main kite body which is
used to control the motion of the kite? Are there instruments on
board that react with wind, tension, sun, temperature, moisture,
ambient media density, or some other characteristics of the flowing
medium (often air) in order to control the motion or shape of the
kite for some special purpose? Hobby and science kiters have placed
hundreds of devices on the kite line and kite body that are
controllers of special actions (for example, turning on lights,
making electricity, dropping objects, moving an aerodynamic flap to
give motion to the kite, taking aerial photographs, collecting air
samples). Are there real-time video cams and other sensors on board
that feed data to a remote human or robot pilot for control
purposes? Is there an expert program servomechanism on board that
controls the kite's motion according to that expert program.
Kite-based electricity-generating systems employ such expert
programs.
Thermodynamic kite Guy H. Kennedy, Jr.
There are controllable sport kites and stunt kites, and these may
have different levels of precision. Stunt kits can be trick kites,
and further along the line of control they can be precision kites.
Four-line Rev kites are a type of kite that can be moved with very
high precision.
Stability
Will a kite return to a designed or desired flight mode or position
after being disturbed by a gust or kite operator control action?
How large of a gust can be tolerated? How large of a control
disturbance can be experienced by the kite with the result that it
nevertheless returns to the desired flight mode? These are
questions of stability. Kites are frequently typed by the measures
taken to assure or prevent stability.
Why a kite needs a tail. Unstable kite wings do
not return to their design modes after being disturbed to a given
extent. Buffeting, bending, breaking, morphing are some of the
occurrences resulting from a disturbance that may prevent a kite
from returning to the desired flight mode. A kite might become
locked into a crashing direction if the wing experiences a certain
kind of disturbance; stability in the crashing mode is not usually
helpful, unless one wants the crash to occur for some peaceful or
military purpose; kited hang glider pilots learn to cut loose from
being towed when a lock-out begins.
Pitch & Lockout Limiter+ +
Kite Balance and Stability by NASA. And:
Kite stability criteria. Kytooning for
stability:
Kite stability and weight Gerald Alexander Richard
Allsopp
Fighter kites are
unstable by choice and design; their high
instability is an asset for the purpose; these kites are
single-lined; the single-line and the high instability permit speed
for chosen directions of flight, obtained by judicious pulling. By
contrast, there are times, places, and purposes for which very high
stability is desired; holding a
camera
Fundamentals of Kite Aerial Photography or
defense communications antenna in a non-accelerating stable
position are goals which cause kite system designers to choose a
kite design that is very stable
Box kites, a brief history. Between these
extremes of stability there is a continuum which can be tapped for
kiting in air, underwater, or in other flight media. Staying up in
the air or in mid-river without deviating from the desired location
may be favorable to some purposes; a parent giving a first kite to
a child may want a very stable one.
A kite may have a mixed stability character; a kite that is
unstable in the center of the media stream may be so designed that
after going out, say to the left of center stream a certain
distance, it will almost always return toward the center and over
to the left of center—an example of cyclic stability—repeating the
cycle over and over. In general, such a kite is stable for that
kind of performance: back and forth without end, in a small wobble
or a large cycling; unstable in a quiet center, but stable when in
a certain predictable cyclic motion; such an unstably-stable kite
has its set of purposes from entertainment to generating
electricity. Stability in the rotating mode is used in
rotating kites; the wings have a high probability of
staying in the rotating mode.
AutorotationThe kind of instability that will
surely drive a kite into the ground or unwanted location no matter
what the kite operator does is a self-defeating kind of
instability.
A kite can be designed to stay quiet in a smooth stream, at a
specific point off stream center, or at a certain elevation. When
the wind changes in direction or strength or gustiness, then
stabilizing the kite's position by design is possible.
Kites with multiple control lines allow the position of the kite in
the media stream (air, water, etc.) to be varied by changing the
stability of the kite; at one moment the kite is stable for a
certain action; in the next moment of control the kite becomes
stable for a new and different action.
Different mechanisms are used to obtain various kinds of stability:
tails, empennages, control lines, sweeps, dihedrals, billows,
out-riggers, gyroscopes, radio-controlled aerodynamic surfaces,
reacting onboard robots, skyhooking with lighter-than-media floats,
shape, reaction shaping, morphing, tensioning, and
de-tensioning.
Artistic quality
Kites are sometimes typed for their artistic quality. The artistic
quality might be for the kite's artistic motions, artistic in-air
appearance for shaped art or applied art. The art involved for
non-flying art-use purposes attract people to decorate home walls
and upper spaces in rooms with hung non-flying kite bodies...with
or without the other kite part: the kiteline. Any level of visual
art may be involved. Sound art made by the kite has been explored.
Radiated sound art and artistic music coming from the kite body or
kite line example a way to type kites.
Manufacturers
Kites are sometimes typed by who made the kite, such as whether it
is a
Hi-Flier kite, a one-of-a-kind William Eddy kite, a
kite made by a hobbyist, and so on. Dealers and kites auctioners
make special efforts to claim authenticity for Revolution type
kites; that is, an extra statement is made to confirm the fact that
the offered kite is made by the inventor's company or with his
permission. Users of powerkites pride themselves on having kites
made by certain kite makers, perhaps an individual (e.g., Jim
Rowland large figure kites, author of Big Book of Kites (1988), and
One-Hour Kites (1989)) or a corporation. Extreme sport kite fliers
may favor a kite from one manufacturer over another; opinions and
field talk will reveal pride, prejudice, and analysis; product
reviews abound in kite forums; manufacturers gain reputations.
Kite Trade
Association International (KTAI) is not restricted to
manufacturers, but also includes members that deal in products made
by others.
British Kite Surfing Association. Hang gliders
that are true kites are made by members of the
Hang Glider Manufacturers
Association (HGMA) and others.
Ambient flow media
A kite reacts with an ambient media, usually earth air; however,
NASA is planning kites for the atmosphere on Mars and other
planets. The ambient flow media for space kites is plasma or photon
streams like the streams from the sun. Water kites or hydro kites
have water as the ambient flow media. Soil kites have soil as the
ambient flow media. Kites towed through solids or semi-solids bring
other media into focus. If a kite "flies" in a food or chemical vat
or a husbandry tank of bacteria or algae, then the chemical soup is
the ambient media. So, a kite can be typed by its media; air kites
are very common; but air is certainly not the only important
ambient flow media that humans use for kite systems and
applications.
- Soil kite
- Water kite
- Plasma kite
- Air kite
- Mars's atmosphere is less dense than Earth's. Kytoons which are
kites are being considered for Mars. Other types of kites may also
have uses on Mars. [625925]
Price
Kites are frequently typed by price. Entry-level kites are often in
the low-price category. Beginner make-your-own kites invite
creativity at low cost
[625926]. Low-cost kites, medium priced kites,
expensive kites.
Minimalist hobby
kitemakers have published on making kites for the right price,
free, by using materials from the environment of natural materials
and human discards and trash. Commercial tug kite systems costing
over $100,000 are now fact.
NASA
prided
themselves on making a Charles Richard Paresev manned kite-hanging-pilot kite glider for a
little over $4,000 in 1961 and regarded it as a
low-cost success compared to other NASA aircraft.
Size
A kite culture surrounds each size category. There are particular
challenges, opportunities, applications, and solutions in each size
sector. Some kite contests have events for the largest and smallest
flying kites. There is a following for the world's largest kite.
Kites may benano-sized, microscopic, tiny, miniature, small, large,
giant, and enormous. David A. Culp's recent U.S. patent indicates
his expertise as he filed for claims for his kite over all size
ranges and in any fluid, including plasma.
Number of sticks
- Zero or no-stick kites form a very special cateory of kites
(Rogallo parawing, Jalbert parafoil, Barish sailwing, Culp KiteShip
or KiteSail, single-sheet of paper kites, Playsail). The kite
literature usually refers to kites in this category as
flexible-wing kites. Gertrude and Francis M. Rogallo invented the fully flexible wing
and applied it to kites, hang glider kites, parachute kites, and
other aircraft types. No-stick inflated kites are included in the
"no-stick" type of kite.
- One-stick kites form a particularly interesting category of
kites as they share flexible-wing kite properties as well as gain
assets from some stiffening (keeled Flexikite, keeled flexwing,
one-stick stiffened rotary Magnus-effect kite).
- Two-stick kites : regular hexagon kite, irregular hexagon
kite.
- Three-stick kites
- Four-stick kites
- Five-stick kites Bermudian five-stick traditional kites.
KITE CONTROL MECHANISM R. L. MAYNE has an invention for the five- or
six-stick flat kites.
- Six-stick kites, such as a single-cell tetrahedron kite. The
six-stick kite was the foundation of Alexander Graham Bell's tetrahedral kites. Hexagonal kites are made
with three sticks or six spars .
Number of control lines
Kites are referenced or typed by the number of control lines that
operate the kite. The number can be from one to a very high count.
Fighter kite contests often allow only single-lined unpowered kites
without radio control of the kite. Bridle lines are not intended.
Two-line sport or stunt kites exist as rigid-framed and soft kites.
A radio-controlled kite having a single kite line has the radio
signals control servo-mechanisms at the kite wing, similar to
free-flight radio-control scale aircraft. Smart on-board computers
can read parameters of a high-flying kite and adjust the
angle of attack and other parameters,
although the kite system has only one kite line. Arch kites of the
rainbow style (long rotary, segmented, collection of unit
sub-kites) most often have two anchorings of the tether; however
there is nothing to prevent having three or more tetherings to the
same one long arch kite, or arch bow, or arch train, or arch chain.
At times, the Wright brothers kited their would-be glider with two
control lines. Three control lines have been used in kiting by
hang-gliding kite students, but often there are just two or one
line. KiteShip shows three control lines with computer and
human-over-ride controlling of the lines.
Mooring typing (or towed-by typing or anchor type)
Main article:
Kite mooring
Here are some of the common mooring types: Towed (moored to or
anchored in) by a powered airplane, microlight aircraft, humans,
ships, boats, power boats, horses, bicycled humans, skateboarded
humans, buggys, landboarded humans, kitesurfing boarded humans,
snowboarded humans, ground staked, tree staked, earth-anchored,
pole-attached, high-bar attached, wind tunnel holder, balloon,
falling human, falling payload, towed human, towed payload,
catapult.Each kite that is flying has at least one tether; tethers
are moored to something that is fixed or mobile relative to the
ambient stream of air (or other media in which a kite flies, like
water, gas, plasma, soil, gel, aggregate). Depending on the flying
media, purpose, and mooring situation, changes are made in kite
design and operation. The mooring could be another kite flying in a
media stream distinct-enough to provide coupling with the first
kite so that the double-kite system operates up to designed
purposes; kite-surfing is of this type where the lower kite is a
water-kiting board; Richard Miller in
Without Visible Means of
Support (Los Angeles, printed by Parker, 1967) described a
double-kite system where the upper kite flew in the
jet stream and the lower kite flew outside the
jet stream. A hydrofoil water kite is being employed, coupled with
power air kites as a new extreme sport activity; the kite-skier has
the lower kite as a water kite—the ski board; kite-sailing involves
a double kite system with the lower kite being a water-kite of some
sort: boat, board, hydrofoil, ski.
Kitesailing International, December, 1988.
Wing loading or sail loading
A kite may fly with a loading on its wing of so many ounces or
pounds per unit of area. Small toy kites or indoor kites are
low-sail-loaded kites. Cargo-tug kites are highly sail-loaded.
Kites being flown in water are highly
wing-loaded kites. Depending on the
application, designers will select kite types according to the
wing loading needed to fulfill some
purpose. Manufacturers frequently specify the range of wing loading
for which a kite will maintain the integrity of its structure.
Sail loading can be computed from other
parameters. Sail loading changes when
airspeed and
angle of
attack change.
Typing by named category

Control bar?

Festival flying

Specialized arch ribbon kite (of the
non-rotating type) or wind bow or wide stiffened ribbon kite
A
- Advertising kites. Ad kites. These kites hold
advertisements, logos of organizations, slogans for causes. Huge
orders of mass-produced kites imprinted with an advertisement forms
a significant part of kite commerce.
- Aerial photography platform kites WindMueller
Aerology Lab
- Airplane mimic kite [625927];[625928];[625929];[625930];[625931] The kiteplane or kite plane in large
size as a kite is finding application in renewable energy
generation. Ref needed
- ARC kites. Peter Lynn
kites. PeterLynn ARC set-up FAQ
- Arch kite-multiple-kite
arch where one or more lines holds many kites in one sky
arch: rotary two-anchor rainbow arch or/and static two-anchor
rainbow arch. If the kites making up the arch kite rotate using the
Magnus effect then the term also
applied is rainbow kite or just bow kite or
kite bow or "sky bow" or SkyBow; one form of the rotaing
arch or rainbow kite is the ribbon kite in one segment or multiple
segments; swivers in the line are important. Distinguish between a
long arching collection of kites in a bow or rainbow pattern from
the power kite called bow kite.
[625932];
- Aquaglider or Aqua-glider: These
various-formed manned kites were kited behind tow boats over
water.) Air Force Lt. Col. Bill Skliar in 1959 designed a biplane
kite glider nicknamed Bayou Bird Sailplane Directory. Biplane manned kite towed over water in 1959.+.
In 1961 Tom H.Purcell designed and flew an aluminum-framed
Fleep-like Rogallo hang glider kite over land; in 1962 he kited the
same wing but pontooned while over water; his effort was imaged and
noted in Skysurfer Magazine in its May/June issue
of 1973, published by EAA inductee Michael Markowski, author of
Hang Glider's Bible. The 1962 Mike Burns SkiPlane and 1963
Dickenson wings highly matched the Purcell, Barry Hill Palmer, and
the Charles Richard NASA Paresev 1B wing;
minor control sticks derived from the triangle control frame were used in
each of these kites which sometimes glided. These kites towed high
could stop their kiting and release into glides. See list "B" for
boats that have a major operating sector as a kite (for one, a 1930
Peel Glider Boat)
- Arch kite -single kite with arch form:
[625933]; [625934]; Concave parabolic arch kite Peter J. Pearce et al.; [625935]; and Monocoque arched kite Peter J. Pearce; multiple arch: Kite; (arch top) Peg Top
Image:Drachensteigen Brandes Hamburg.jpg|Three kites in an art
sculpture.Image:BenjaminFranklinLightening.jpg|Illustrations form a
significant part of the kite world.Image:Franklin lightning
engraving.jpg|Notice the shape of the kite illustrated.Image:La
cometa Goya lou.jpg|La cometa (1778). Pintor Goya. Square kite with
tail.
- Art kites as images-only: Video kites, kites
on photographs, fine-art illustrations holding kite images,
paintings, sculptures, flight-simulator images of kites.
engineering drawings, sewing plans, drawings on kite plans, story
illustrations in children's books, patent drawings. Kites
in Art A Genevieve Lytton graphic card showed fancy dress ball
costume involving hexagon kite with tail and string reel: Genevieve Lytton as "The Kite"
Image:Wicket, Shirone Station, Niigata Kotsu Railway.jpg|Fine art
on kite wing.Image:Yokaichi01.jpg|Grand fine art on a giant
kite.
- Art-holding kites: These kites carry art
either on their wing or wing's tail, or as kite line laundry. *
Artistic flying kites: These kites are artistic in
their totality as flying sculpture. These kites win kite festival
events that focus on artistic qualities.
- Asymmetrical kites. The common practice of
kite designing and making includes an aim to have the left and
right sides of the kite's wing be mirror images of each other for
symmetrical balance. A collection of builders are exploring designs
that are without that left-right symmetry, but are asymmetrical.
Special challenges are involved in producing successful
asymmetrical kites.
The Joy of Making Both Art and Kites
B
Image:USpat2431938kiteballoon1944Jalbert.jpg|April 15, 1944 Kite
Balloon
- Balloon kite heavier-than-air, full kite wing
is balloon, but shaped for kiting.
- Balloon kite heavier-than-air, major element
of kite wing is balloon, but not all.
- Balloon kite light-than-air with kite wing all
balloon.
- Balloon kite light-than-air with kite wing with major
element balloon, but with large non-balloon wing parts.
KITE BALLOON Domina C. Jalbert, filed 1944.
- Balloon kite of the ballooning
spiderlings; this kite is not a mechanical balloon but s
collection of spider silk threads that are used for dispersal of
spiders. Richard Miller in 1967 in book Without Visible Means
of Support described the mechanics of the double kite system
where the upper kite lifts and drags in coupling with the lower
kite that lifts downwards and drags; the common kite line results
in a net kiting system in free-flight. In the 1800s Hiram Stevens Maxim in his chapter on
Flying Kites observed the kiting of spiders; biologists
used the misleading "ballooning" term which has stuck through time.
Bug hunter Darrell Ubick correctly recognized that ballooning
spiders actually are kiting as noted by author Pamela S. Turner in
Super-powered spiders. In Tales with Tails:
Storytelling the Wonders of the Natural World by Kevin Strauss
at three places (pages 184, and 185 and 187), shows correct
understanding of the kiting of the
ballooning spider (as no true balloon is ever made). Three
staffers of Straight Dope Science Advisory Board in Are cobwebs
made by spiders? recognized the kiting of the ballooning
spiders. Pest control company details spiders and they recognize
that it is kiting that is done by instars (spiderlings) even though
the historical term is ballooning. The Rare Species Conservatory
affirm that ballooning spiders actually do not balloon but
kite.
Image:Q061156BalloonApronLondon1915-1918.jpg|Guarding the
coast.Image:BarrageBalloon BB-36 013606.jpg|Launching from
shipImage:Barrage balloon, Parris Island.jpg| The barrage balloon
was also a kite.Image:Barrage_balloon_fsac_1a35100.jpg|Draped
cables would threaten enemy aircraft.
- Barrage balloon
was a kytoon.
- Barrage kite Sausage kite
balloons.
- Balloon kite This applies to both
lighter than air and heavier-than air type of kite. The
lighter-than-air type balloon kite is the kytoon that operates
aloft whether or not the wind blows; when the kytoon is not kiting,
it at least floats aloft as a pure balloon; but when it is kiting,
it is a true kite. Kytoons are often used to loft radio
communications antenna, rescue signals, and kite-line laundry.
- Barish sailwing
David Barish; and his patent: BARISH GLIDE WING David T. Barish, US Patent 3480238 Filing date: Feb 27, 1967.
Issue date: Nov 1969.
- Beginner kites. Kites of this type are
separated by sellers, makers, and leaders.
- Bell kites Alexander Graham Bell Wheel kite, 1908; ___ Bell Kite Project;___ Dr.
Alexander Graham Bell. (Hargrave echo?);___
- Bermuda kite
traditional Bermudian kites flown at Easter.
Hold World records for altitude and duration.
- Biplane kite
- Bird kites. Abstract and realistic looking bird kites. Dynamic
bird kites. Bird art on face of kites. Bird Kites by George Webster. Kiteflier, Issue 92, p. 5-12.
- Boats that operate as kites for a major part of their
operations: A 1930 Peel Glider Boat was kited on a 1000' line and
would get about 3 miles of air gliding distance after releasing its
kite line. Peel Glider Boat. The many contemporary
inflated boats that are being kited begin and end their kited
session as towed boats, for example Sevlor Manta Ray.
- Bowed kite
Image:Box Kite (PSF).jpg|Box kiteImage:Boxkite.svg|Box kite (square
section, stacked two cells)Image:Quadratflachdrachen
3.JPG|Two-stick square kiteImage:Quadratflachdrachen 2.JPG|Square
kite for family fun.Image:Kite Flying next to the Bell Tower,
Xi'an.JPG|Chinese figure kites
- Bow kite This term has
several uses: class of parafoil kites, early British bowing top
edge sparred kite, and also the rotating-ribbon rainbow-like
two-anchor one-line arch kite.
- Bow kite This is to be
distinguished from Sky Bow or rotating ribbon kite and also from
the arch bow stick kites.
- Box kite. Box-like kite.
- Box Delta kites
- Butterfly kites This type occurs at several
levels: art, applique, and realistic motion.
C
- C-KITE
- Cambodian kites The Kleng Ek kite , a
Cambodian musical kite is often flown at night. Cambodian pocket
kite. Bamboo is very common for Cambodian kites. To recapture the
early Cambodian kites, a focused web site has launched to
introduced the kite book Khmer Kiteshas been
launched.
- Candle kites
- Cantonese kites
- Cayley kite reproductions Sir George Cayley
- Cellular kites
- Chapi-chapi A type
of kite popular in the Philippines, usually constructed from old
broom sticks and newspapers.
D
- Delta kites or Delta-wing
kites. Single line deltas. Dual-line stunt delta kites.
Deltas with a triangular box is a popular variant. Single Box Delta Plan
- Diamond kites (see Eddy kites, but
distinguish) [625936]. Diamonds types appear from mini to very
large, from low-cost beginner utility ( El'Cheapo Diamond) to high quality state-of-the art
large target control diamonds. MBK 2-Skewer Diamond Kite plan.
- Display kites. (or show
kites) A genre of kites for display has been growing (for
festivals, shows, library exhibitions, museum exhibitions, event
leaders).
- Disposable kite. In kite fishing there are
distinct uses for disposable kites. In Philippine kite fighting,
the object is to destroy the other's kite body directly; new games
of fighting displace the disposable kite.
- Duryea kite reproductions (Charles Duryea)
- Double-kite systems (two coupled kites, but
confined; or two coupled kites in free-flight—and hazardous) in
same media (air only or water only, e.g.) or distinct media (air
and water, e.g.). [625937] (kitesurfing with board as a hybrid water
kite kite coupled with a power air kite, e.g.); Without Visible
Means of Support by Richard Miller, 1965? for two coupled air
kites with one in jet stream flows and
the lower kite in non-jet-stream flows). Two (or more) kites kite
lined to one anchor or one mooring or one kite operator are
included here. Two kites (or more) that communicate with each other
for a purpose are coupled.
- Dragon kites. A couple of categories of dragon
kites persist; those that mimic the figure of a dragon in
decoration or figure kite and those of a series of kites in a train
or stack.
Image:PicEddyKite.jpg|William A. Eddy with Eddy
Kite.Image:US646375.png|Eddy kite
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F
- Fast kites. Two species: a) kites that move
fast or high-speed kites, and b) kites that can be made from
scratch in a fast or quick manner (see "Q" for Quick kites). Some
fighter kites and some sport kites are built so that they can move
very fast under control. Speed records are reported. Kitesurfers
have an appetite for power kites that have high speed. Kites in
other media like water, soil, or plasma has speeds specific to
their conditions. Speed is relative to the activity and purpose.
High-speed kite fishing involves speed: High-Speed Kite Fishing
No Form of Tuna Fishing Provides More Visual
Excitement.
Image:Fengzheng.JPG|Figure kite, artistic kite.Image:Flugbär
südlich von Hockenheim Kopie.jpg|BearImage:Frog kite
01284.JPG|FrogImage:Aquiloni a cervia, 24 aprile 2005.jpg|Horned
Hex with tail.
G
- Gallaudet kite. Gallaudet
Hydrokite. Yale professor was told not to
experiment with aeronautics. However his biplane kite with tail
involved wing warping prior to the Wright brothers use of such
control means. Edson Fessenden Gallaudet (1871–1945); detail
drawings are available at Gallaudet
Hydrokite. Edson Gallaudet formed the Gallaudet Engineering
company with his brother and then Gallaudet Aircraft Company (GAC),
earliest precursor to the company General Dynamics. The Gallaudet
Hydrokite was the beginning of a seaplane interest of the GAC.
- Geometric kite.
- Genki kite.
- Giant kite. Cody Specials;__ Introducing the Giant Kites of Guatemala;__
Yokaichi Giant Kite Festival, Shiga, Japan
- Gibson Girl was a type of cellular kite for
radio antena raising from rescue raft. Gibson Girl
- Glider kites. Manned and unmanned aircraft
intended primarily for gliding are frequently tested and flown as
kites under tow from ground or water vehicles or animals, machines,
or other people. Some glider kites released to free-flight gliding
may or may not be free-flight kites depending on how payload may or
may not be tugging the glider's wing through a tow line set or not.
Primary manned gliders kited are glider kites when so being kited;
when released to glide, these are not kites. Differently, the
hang-lined hang glider pilot may be kited up in his or her
aircraft, but when released to free-flight, such aircraft remains a
gliding kite or kite glider. See the Martin Glider that was kited by very many different
means.
- Gyrocopter or helicopter kite (see
autogyro)
H
Image:Hargrave-demo.jpg|Hargrave (seated) and
Swain demonstrate the manlift kites (labelled A, B, D, & E),
sling seat and spring balance in the parkland behind Stanwell Park
beach, November 1894.
- Helikite. A type of kytoon filled with helium.
Heliktie is a true kite yet is also lighter-than air for staying
aloft when kiting is insufficient for keeping the helikite aloft.
One major use of the Helikite is bird control . Another is antenna
lifting. KAP also.
- Hexagonal kite US 51860 patent was for a
hexagonal kite by T. Perrins granted on January 2, 1866. A Birt
kite may have preempted in fact the same kite. Ed Grauel opines
that the Birt kite at the Kew Observatory preempted the Perrins
kite; he noted that the same kite later became known as the
barndoor or house kite. .
- High aspect ratio kites. Tow-launched hobby
unmanned sailplanes are true kites during hi-start kited launches ;
they may hold the record for single-line single-anchor high aspect
ratio kites made by humans. However, the rotating ribbon
single-line double-anchored Skybow kite (rotating
ribbon arch kite of two anchors) that sits in the sky nearly as a
rainbow is a kite with extreme aspect ratio. A different
non-rotating ribbon kite by Anders Ansar follows the Barish
sailwing concept to the extreme; Ansar suggests more than two
anchor points. He also explains how two sailors holding a ribbon
kite, e g on ice wearing ice skates, can sail straight upwind or
straight down wind, the latter faster than the wind. A concept
for the world's biggest, longest, widest kite?.
- Hydro
kite Water kites. Kites that fly in water or on the
surface of water.
I
- India kites.
- Indoor kite Also
this confuses with zero-wind kites.
- Inflatable
single-line kite Inflatable delta wing kite; [625947];[625948]; [625949] Distinguish between closed-bladder inflated
kites (sausage balloon kite, other-form balloon kites) from
open-bladder ram-air inflation (Jalbert parafoil and its
derivatives) and the single-surface flexible-sail dynamic inflation
(Rogallo and Barish wings). A kite can two or three types of
inflation parts (Jalbert's 1944 patent claimed a kite that had the
closed-cell inflation as well as a sailwing part). Over water
flying applications have invited air kites having light-than-water
flotation capability; power-kiting for kitesurfing with
leading-edge-inflated (LEI) bladder held inside textile pocket is
one such use; another are some fishing kites Inflatable Fishing Kite Instructions . Gomberg
has shown a great variety of "Unique
Inflatable Kites.
- Invisible kites (radar invisible, very-low
visibility translucents, out-of-sights, non-lighted night kites,
imagined kites, kites flown by the blind as they feel the tension
changes)
J
- Jalbert parafoil kites following invention of
Domina Jalbert
- Japanese kites
- Java kites (pre-Malay kite, pre-Eddy
kite)
- Jesus kites This type of kite is found in both
art and flying kites.. Aquilone di Gesù These kites use
art on standard kite forms or specialized figure kites. In the
Philippines a noted kite maker Eulogio Catahan is a leader in Jesus
kites.
K
- Kid kites. This type of kite is fit for young
kids. Both hobby authors and commercial suppliers pay attention to
this type of kite. Easy
Kites for Kids; Best
Kite For Kids; Kid's Kites
- Kirby kite (aka bird kite, but a variant of
the Malay kite) (Not to be confused with the manned glider called
Kirby Kite which was a kite upon being 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.
- KiteSail by Maurice GRENIER [625950]
- KiteShip by Dave Culp. [625951]
- Korean kites
- Kytoon--shaped balloon
that kites (Two general types: 1.Lighter-than-medium in which it
moves within a gravity field. 2. Heavier-than-air kytoon or
heavier-than the medium in which it flies. Density is intended when
saying heavier-than-the-ambient medium.). For air, some
kytoons are less dense than air (using hydrogen, helium, heated
air); other kytoons filled with say unheated air are not buoyant in
still air, but are kited still. Helikite.
Notice
that these are not helicopter kites; the heli stands for
helium. Include barrage kites of the kytoon type that Domina Jalbert worked for military defense
purposes and peace time antenna lifting by ham radio operators; car
dealers raise advertisements with kytoons.Observation balloon The kytoon is a true
kite when in flight in an appropriate moving stream of material,
fluid, gas, or air; the kytoon is also a true balloon.
- : * KITE BALLOON BALPH H. UPSON. 1916.(A)
- : * Kite Balloon. Upson. 1916.(B)
- : * KITE BALLOON HERBERT GRAY GIBBS. 1924
- : * Allsopp
helikites limited - Manufacturer of aerostats
- : * Kite Balloon by H. Upson, 1916 patent
- : * KITE BALLOON Domina C. Jalbert (A)
- : * KITE BALLOON Jalbert (B)
- : * Kite Ballon. Domina C. Jalbert. (C)
- : * Balloon kite Robert O. Talamo
- : * Aircraft. Aircraft uses kite balloon in concert with a kite train
and a powered aircraft.
- : * Thermodynamic kite Guy H. Kennedy, Jr.
L
M
N
Image:Kastendrachen Schwalbe.JPG|Novelty kite by Carl von
CansteinImage:Kastendrachen Schwalbe und Quadratflachdrachen
gekoppelt.JPG|Novelty kite by Carl von
CansteinImage:Kettenwindgenerator 4.JPG|Novelty kite with multiple
kite line rotors by Carl von Canstein.
O
P
Image:Ram air square.jpg|Parachute kite; this Jalbert Parafoil wing
is kited; the sail loading is high, but the lift/drag ratio is
significantly positive so that kiting occurs well; the main purpose
is not sustained paragliding, though gliding well occurs from the
kited wing.Image:US paratroopers jump into Australia.jpg|Shown are
non-kite conical parachutes with tacitly zero glide angle, thus no
kite deflection.Image:Fallskärm.jpg|Parachute that is a true kite
with significant positive lift/drag ratio.
- Parachute kites (see below paraglider) Parachutes
that have a directioning venting small (parasail, directional
parachutes) or massive (Jalbert
parafoil, Rogallo parawing) are kites
moored to free-falling body or payload. Symmetrical
non-directionable zero-lift/drag ratio parachutes are streamers and
not kites; no net deflection from the stream
occurs in a true parachute.
- Parafoil
- Parafoil stunt kites.
Image:Paraglider vor Wettersteingebirge.jpg|Notice the kite's wing
and the many kite lines that are held by the human kite operator;
the kite operator is moving by the power of gravity. Paraglider
kite system.Image:Oludeniz Paragliding.JPG|Several kites in
free-flight; these paraglider kites remain kiting in thermal
updrafts and sometimes slope updrafts for
hours.Image:Paragliding_in_hvittingfoss.jpg|The kite's wing is a
derivation of
Domina Jalbert's
invention of ram-air airfoiled wing.Image:Paraglider soaring over
coast.jpg|Pilots have operated their kited
paragliders to obtain hundreds of miles
ground-travel distance.
- Paraglider manned
(these are kites both in free-fall as well as when being kited
either by the pilot or secondarily by a towing or moored device or
even powered harness system).
<1-------------PARASAIL
KITES-------------------------->Image:Parasail
lahaina.jpg|Notice the asymmetrical flutes of the highly modified
parachute so that kiting occurs.
- Parasail and
Parasailing These are
parachutes modified to have a positive lift/drag ratio so that the
wing can be kited to carry humans or other payload.
- Paravane
- Paravane ...water kite
- Pentagonal kites. Penta kites. Five-sided
polygonal kite. Penta Kites+ Japanese Kite collection The five points gives ample
opportunity for head, two hands and two legs. Distinguish
pentagonal kites from the five-point star kites that are ten sided
(unless art is simply showing the five-point star). Five recalls
the shapes, humans, and animals.
- Picnic plate kites. See Plate kites.
- Plasma kite Notice
the Dave Culp, kite expert professional, patent-mentioned plasma
kite while distinguish the ambient flying media: blood plasma or
space plasma or confined scientific-laboratory or industrially used
plasma streams. Plasma is the most common phase of matter in the
universe .
- Plate kites: paper or plastic or EPS foam
picnic plate kites. This type of kite includes figure, artistic,
dragon, and rotary kites. The most simple kite here is the single
plate uncut and left as a circular kite, else complexity is up to
makers. (p. 4)PAPER PLATE FLYER
- Powered-harness hang glider kites.
Image:Mike Fifield CA 2007.jpg|Kite is anchored to a moving powered
kite operator.Image:PPGInFlight.jpg|Engine on or off, the kite
still flies as a kite.
Image:Powered paraglider on the ground.jpg|Notice that it is the
pilot that is thrusted, then the pilot tugs the kite lines.
Q
R
- Radio-controlled kite, unpowered. Both for
sport and commercial purposes, the complexity of more than one line
is bringing forward attention on controlling power, position, angle
of attack. One line simplifies reeling and line control. One
project in the power kite sport field is the "Slarc." Peter Lynn Newsletter August 2007. Radio-control
de-powering and release systems are being developed. Instead of the
drag of two, three, four, or five lines, the single-line
radio-controlled kite has the drag of just one line. United States
Application US20080108273 instructs RC kites.
- Radio-controlled kite, powered scale and
manned. Distinguish a product that is not a kite called RC
Kite from true kites that have radio controls on a kite-lined kite
wing.
- Ram-air kite
- Revolution kite or Rev kite (four-line
Revolution stunt kites by Joe Hadzicki)
- Ribbon kite. Several sorts: large non-rotating
ribbon arch kite (windbow), rotating ribbon kite, and kite with
main sails made up of grids and meshes of ribbons (latticework
kites). German kite designer Willi Koch Kites made by Willi Koch, from Nettetal, Germany
specialized in mesh or ribbon-set kites. Premier Mesh Delta - 11 Foot - Rainbow.
- Rigid kite (no flexible sail part)
- Rogallo Corner kite ( patented and first intended use: radar reflector for
rescue)
- Rogallo Parawing
kite
- Roller kite. The
Roller kite
- Rolloplan kite Roloplan (German origin)
-
- Rotary
kites--vertical axis rotary, spanwise rotary (
aerodynamic basis), mixed rotary, streamwise
axially rotary UFO and Rotor Kite Information; Classic Rotor (Meat Tray); Koool Kites. EPS,
Styrofoam, and balsa special Magnus-effect rotary kites can be made
with several construction methods for two-line control kites for
heavier breezes: Interesting circular and rotary kite designs. Modern UFO Rotor Kites Many of the spanwise
rotary kites are two-line control kites. However, UFO-SAM is a single-line rotary Magnus-effect kite;
one of the leading makers of the kite Kenneth Sams died in 2003 at age 80, but a manufacturer has
continued offering the kite. A two-line rotary kite using a special
control bar is instructed in the patent by J. R. Carnwath filed in
Mar 29, 1948.. Kites that revolve but do not obtain lift from the
revolving motion are distinct from Magnus-effect lifters or
gyrocopting lifting rotating kites; Thomas Ansboro of Scotland in
1891 instructed in a US patent 464412 about a revolving hexagonal
kite where the bridling is critical .
A ringed UFO rotary kite patent indicated a special bridling ring
and a central rotating ring. US Patent 4779825. Especially full of
information about the type of rotary kite of spanwise top-over-back
rotation is the
US Patent 5598988. The very high aspect ratio
rotating spanwise ribbon kites are continuing to gain
interest—Skybow; these require at least two swivels. Also, a
species of rotary kites that are nearly streamers rotate nearly
windward; some are vaned and some are not vaned.
Vaneless rotary kite Carl E. Knight et al. And:
US
patent:3086738 "Rotating kite", Lubash, John J., 1963,April In
1995 Carl E. Knight and Jo Ann F. Knight well instructed a rotary
kite that rotates near windward for its axis (not like autogyro and
not like spanwise magnus)
Kite.Image:Rokkaku kite.svg|Rokkaku (bowed
hexagonal)
- Rokkaku Often:
Rokaku. [625963];__[625964];__[625965];__[625966];__[625967]__;[625968];
- Rotating Ribbon Kite: One version has been
called Skybow. The long ribbon is at least a two-anchored system
with at least two swivels, but may be segmented to allow segments
of ribbon to rotate at different speeds. Autorotation giving lift via the Magnus effect
allows a rainbow arch kite to fly. A human operator at one end with
a fixed ground anchor at the other is one format; a separate human
operator at each of two anchors is another format. More than two
tethers can be used. Rotating Kites
S
Image:Asso1.jpg|Parasail or sail kite (very short kite
lines)Image:Asso6.jpg|This kite sail has a novel
structure.Image:Kite skiing in Kuopio Finland 2005.jpg|Sailing over
snow with a sail kite or power kite.Image:Snowkiting
sprzet.jpg|Sailing over snow.Image:Kite Poland 3.JPG|Sailing a
waterboard: kitesurfing.Image:Kitebaording.jpg|Kiteboarding--sail
kite for sailing a board.
- Sail kites. Sails that are fully tethered and
give a net positive lift are sails that are kites. Sailing vessels
on water and land use sail kites. The kiting tethers can be short
or long. Power kites are frequently sail kites as the power kite is used to sail a skier, landsailing buggy, wakeboarder, ground wheeled
vehicle, boats, etc.
Image:USpat4279394SwallotailslepByLoy.jpg|John W. Loy teaches a
variation of the sled kite that may avoid the collapse that is
frequent with many sled kites. Swallowtail sled.
- Self-erecting collapsible kites. Collapsible
kites that self-erect upon some triggering event to full kite form
have special niche uses and appeal. Positive inflated kytoons would
be typed here if a simple triggering erected the kytoon.
Already-erected kites like the parafoil are self-inflating, but not
usually considered as needing any erecting, as they are already
softly finished in form except for placing them in the wind.
Self-erecting collapsible kite Todd Hostetter;
and Inflatable kite arrangement and launcher Vernon
G. Pascoe et al.
- Show kites. See Display kites. Show kites are
one category of display kites.
- Skating kites. Kite
skating Kite skating
- Sled kites: Knotty Attribution Problem where the Buda Jewish Kite
of 1904 is featured. Scott Sled and Allison
Sled or Sled: two kite types that have intertwined histories
and a large following with many hybrids stemming from the original
leading historical designs. There are many variants of the sled
kite. FLEXIBLE KITE William M. Allison; and Flight.(straw and paper sled). Sled Kites by George Webster; 10 pages with plans and
variations.; and Flexible Sled Kites; and Hooded Kite; and Swallowtail kite by inventor John W. Loy Make A Sled Kite
- Signature kites. Kites made by a particular
person become prized possessions for some people.
- Single-piece kites SINGLE PIECE KITE Frank L. Roe;
- Sode kites or Sode Dako. The
specific type wins attention by its shape, especially related to
Japan.
- Soft kites (parawing, parafoil, some
un-sticked sleds, Barish sailwing, Playsail, KiteShip, foils)
- Solar kite ...plasma
media, photonic media: Solar Kite Mission Feasibility Study Solar kite
engineers and scientists are expanding the definition of kite.
Solar kites: Small solar sails with no moving
parts
- Solar kite ...sail is full of solar-energy
electricity generating material.
- Solar kite ...images on kite of the sun or tradenamed with
solar in its name. Sun kite. (Solar Max Delta Kite,
- Soil kite
- Sound-making kites
- Stunt kite New type
of stunting from WindFire Designs
- Square kites
- Stacked kite (stacking sub-kite units).
Paul Flying A Record Breaking 50 6ft Pro
Speeds
- Styrofoam Kites) When Styrafoam eating plates
are used in a dragon kite segment kites, when a kite is made from
Styrene drinking cups, or when kites are made with the dominant
material being Styrafoam or EPS foam, then the kite world refers to
the kite type as styrafoam kites. This type allows use of recycled
goods.
T

Corner reflector, part of Rogallo's
target kite.
Image:Papírsárkány1.JPG|Toy kitingImage:Flying
kites.jpg|Single-line toy kitesImage:Kite_flying.jpg|Eddy or Cross
or Malay or Diamond toy kite with tail.Image:Cerf volant
rouge2.JPG|Color and tail toy kite.
Jammerbugt Drage Festival
- Toy kites
- Traction kites for relaunching from water
differ from dedicated land traction kites
- Train. Or "kite train". Connect many kite-body
units onto one line in various ways and have a kite that is a kite
train or train of kites. Dragon kites, centipede kites, and some
arches are trains. A train of mini kites is a mini-kite train.
Mini Kite Train. FANO 1997,
Kitetrains
- Trainer kites. Kites of lower power that are
used to practice maneuvers before higher powered kites are
used.
- Tukkal kite (special four-stick kite) (var:
tukal)
U
V
- Ventilated kite. Flying kites in high speed
winds and even stormy winds is achieved in several ways; one way is
to have high porosity or ventilated kites Effective sail
area is reduced while shape and appearance can follow known kite
shapes of non-ventilated kites. My Kite Bag.
- Victory kite. One series of noted kites: the
Victory kites of Stormy Weathers (yes that is his name) include
Star Victory, Swift Victory, and Winged Victory. Mr. Weathers was
respected for building fine-flying kites from common materials.
DF Archive - Weathers Collection
W
- Waffle kites. Joseph LeCornu Joseph's family reverted to a two-name
spelling: Le Cornu. Joseph kept the one-word: LeCornu. Replicas
continue to be made...along with variants.
- Water
kites U.S. Patent number: 282620 Filing date: Feb 3, 1883. This
mechanism handles a water kite or underwater inverted kite.
Paravane, paravanes. Underwater kiting of heavier-than-water (even
ballasted) instruments serve industry and science, e.g., Yellowfin. Towed Underwater Apparatus. Domina Jalbert told Tal Streeter that water
kites are hardly different from air kites and could have many
applications. Water kite and method of using the same Kenneth
D. Anderson
- Water relaunchable kite. Air kites that can be
launched and relaunched once the kite's wing and lines are settled
on or in the water.
- Woglum kite (variant of the Malay kite).
Gilbert T. Woglum in 1896 flew a train of kites over a parage and
hung a golden flag from the main line.
- Work kites or working kites
are kites designed to perform specialized tasks or produce work or
energy.
X
- X-treme kites. Extreme sport kites.
- X flat two-stick kite; the frame is "X" format
with two spars; rectangular or square or cut to form X. Flat kites
made of two sticks. Artistic alphabet character "X" kite.
- X-kite, a program holding virtual kite hang
gliders in software program. X-kite
- X-Kite and X-Gliders, a company; their line of
kite offers are X-kites (many styles). Eric Duvauchelle, Art
Director, is proud of their new launching in 2008. X-Kites Shop
online
Y
- Yacht kites Leslie Hunt's book's 25 kites
included a plan for a yacht kite.
- Youth kites. Kites for the very young children
is a kite type category in the commercial sphere. Also: Beginner
kites. Kid kites. Kiddie kites. Kites suitable for the very young
children are alsomst always small single-line kites using cotton
kite line. Festivals sometimes have a category of called youth
kites.
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See also
References
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