Various types of kite exist, ranging from materials, shape, usage, skill required to operate, and so on. A modified parachute that has a positive lift/drag ratio is a kite. A tethered body that does gain a positive lift/drag ratio upon being towed in some media is a kite. Kites have their wing body and kite line; the kite line is moored to a fixed or moving body which even could be the kite line itself; the moving body could be a falling payload or human pilot as in some hang gliders. Kites of very low stable lift/drag ratio are only rarely treated as kites, but as streamers and flags. Kites may fly in air or in 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 kite continue to be invented and designed.
Monday, February 9, 2009
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